Maybe with the latest fad for giving girls boys' names, Lawrence will come into fashion too?
I remember thinking it odd that Tim found Nicola's name unusual in Autumn Term, 'not like Joan or Peggy or Betty' as Joan and Peggy and Betty were names I associated with my grandmother's generation, and I was somewhere under ten and hadn't really worked out how old the book was.
All the youngish Margarets I've met have been Scottish, so maybe it stayed popular there longer than in England?
I was in classes with multiple Joannas and Fionas (not that I am at all posh) so I think AF's instincts were right there.
I think of Valentine as a boy's name, possibly due to Valentine Pelka (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0670893/). *wipes brow in relief that AF fandom was spared any kind of Blaise Zabini-like fandom flare-ups about Val Longstreet's gender*
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I remember thinking it odd that Tim found Nicola's name unusual in Autumn Term, 'not like Joan or Peggy or Betty' as Joan and Peggy and Betty were names I associated with my grandmother's generation, and I was somewhere under ten and hadn't really worked out how old the book was.
All the youngish Margarets I've met have been Scottish, so maybe it stayed popular there longer than in England?
I was in classes with multiple Joannas and Fionas (not that I am at all posh) so I think AF's instincts were right there.
I think of Valentine as a boy's name, possibly due to Valentine Pelka (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0670893/). *wipes brow in relief that AF fandom was spared any kind of Blaise Zabini-like fandom flare-ups about Val Longstreet's gender*