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Re: Boy names on girls
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Nope. I gave Andrea as a f version just because it's more familiar to English-speakers, same as Geraldine, but in Afrikaans it'd more likely be Andriesa. Andries is pronounced pretty much like Undress, but with the short i of Nicholas instead of the e. So, the default m nn is Dries, and the f would be Driesa.She could therefore have been Andriesa Philippa Gerharda or Gerhardina or Gerhardiena. The G is "as in Scottish loch", but pronounced further back, so more guttural. The default m nn is, of all things, Hardus!
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