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in reply to a message by Cleveland Kent Evans
I said "it's not used in Spain", not "it's not used at all in Spain". This means that the name can appear sometimes in registers just as other foreigner names, not that it is never used.
Is possible to find a Samantha/Samanta in Spain? Yes. But this name nowadays is just a foreigner name as: Derie, Sharon, Hazel, Dunstan, Steven, Safae, Li, Eoin, Siobhan (all names of people who I know and who is born in Spain). "It's used in Spain" implies, for a foreigner name, more use that just a sporadic use, as with Vanessa/Vanesa, Jonathan, Jessica/Jesica, Jennifer/Jenifer, etc.
And uses and names in American Spanish-speaking countries are very very different from uses and names in Spain. My post said "in Spain", not "in Spanish".
Lumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com
Is possible to find a Samantha/Samanta in Spain? Yes. But this name nowadays is just a foreigner name as: Derie, Sharon, Hazel, Dunstan, Steven, Safae, Li, Eoin, Siobhan (all names of people who I know and who is born in Spain). "It's used in Spain" implies, for a foreigner name, more use that just a sporadic use, as with Vanessa/Vanesa, Jonathan, Jessica/Jesica, Jennifer/Jenifer, etc.
And uses and names in American Spanish-speaking countries are very very different from uses and names in Spain. My post said "in Spain", not "in Spanish".
Lumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com
This message was edited 9/2/2006, 1:52 PM
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Thank you for clearing that up, though to me the phrase "it's not used in Spain" and "it's not used at all in Spain" seem to mean the same thing. :)
What is your dividing line between "sporadic" use and regular use? Were the figures you quoted for all women alive in Catalonia, or for girls born in just a specific year?
What is your dividing line between "sporadic" use and regular use? Were the figures you quoted for all women alive in Catalonia, or for girls born in just a specific year?
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