At 01:21:22 on Sun, 1 Nov 2009, kat  wrote in 
:

>Nice.:-)  Funnily enough the woman in the next bed called her son 
>Alexander and I thought at the time they would have had the same name. 
>Had I been a boy I was to have been called Lindsay, and I think I might 
>have suffered after we moved south to where Lindsays were all girls! 
>Names are every intercangeable these days.

Lindsay/Lindsey is a good unisex name in most parts of Britain, and 
there are plenty of other such, even if the odd vowel tends to differ 
(like Lesley/Leslie).  Many a name can unexpectedly belong to either 
sex, though - I was at Sunday School with a girl called Rodney.  You 
won't believe this, but her brother was Charles;  so of course, every 
single week, they had to face the greetings of "Hello, Rodney!"  "Hello, 
Charles!"

(A joke for the older reader, that one.)

I understand that Sikh forenames are gender-free, which has all kinds of 
advantages.  But at this point I think I'll leave the subject alone, and 
go to bed!
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