New Post
Search
Help
ArchivesRe: My name
in reply to a message by Jancey
A novelist called Mary Webb wrote a ludicrously popular romantic novel called Precious Bane in, I think, the 1920s. Very forgettable, except that the hero was Kester and the heroine was Jancis.
Jancis must surely be a hybrid of Janet/Janice/Janis and Frances. It has been used ocasionally since the book came out, and it is pretty! It seems likely that Jancey is either a form of Jancis or an elaboration of it, perhaps based on Janet + Nancy.
Jancis must surely be a hybrid of Janet/Janice/Janis and Frances. It has been used ocasionally since the book came out, and it is pretty! It seems likely that Jancey is either a form of Jancis or an elaboration of it, perhaps based on Janet + Nancy.
1
Replies
We still don't know whether it is being used as a male or female name. Even unisex names often start out as one or the other, or are the same familiar name for two gender-differentiated formal names, like:
1