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HelpRe: did you ever read "Compromising Positions?"
in reply to a message by RoxStar
(I've written about this before)-until about a generation ago, it was usual, in my area, for all girls to have the name Marie as a first name, and the boys, Joseph.
They weren't, usually,called by these names;Marie Constance would be just called Constance.
Although sometimes it was hyphenated, as, Marie-Mai, or Marie-Blanche, and they'd then be called the whole name.
At one time, any French-speaking men in the Canadian military would be referred to as "Joe LeBlanc", because of all the Josephs, and Le Blanc being a common last name.
I don't know how the soldiers themselves felt about this, but it's pretty mild, so I rather expect they bore it patiently.
They weren't, usually,called by these names;Marie Constance would be just called Constance.
Although sometimes it was hyphenated, as, Marie-Mai, or Marie-Blanche, and they'd then be called the whole name.
At one time, any French-speaking men in the Canadian military would be referred to as "Joe LeBlanc", because of all the Josephs, and Le Blanc being a common last name.
I don't know how the soldiers themselves felt about this, but it's pretty mild, so I rather expect they bore it patiently.
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