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Re: Name Origin? ? ?
Briseis is certainly unexpected in English! But isn't that because, in literature, Chaucer used Criseyde and Shakespeare used Cressida? And they were the versions that caught on ... I wouldn't be surprised to meet an English Cressida, though it would be even less surprising to see Cressida as a type of car; perhaps a Toyota, I'm vague about cars.
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