[LMB] OT: Irene (re HH ch 23)

[Irène Delse]

Tzivia Adler wrote:
>> In France, where I live and grew up, it's an unusual name too, and I 
>> had to deal with a lot of stupid jokes on the part of schoolmates. I 
>> never met another Irene in my age class! <snip> I thought  it was too 
>> bad to be highly edudated and teach greek and latin if you had to go 
>> and give your children weird names because of a noble meaning.
>>
>> As an adult, I don't really enjoy it, but at least it's useful 
>> because people tend to remember me easily because of the unusual name.
> is it that unusual?
> i remember not an Irene but Rina in my class, my friend's sister, and 
> two in one sister's class, and another in a different sister's class.  
> granted its not quite the same name, but still.

Well, here (France), Irene is unusual in the under-sixty age class. I 
only once, as a thirty-something, met another Irene of my age. It's 
funny to me to see that it's unusual too in England and the USA. Though 
maybe Irina (and Rina) seems not that unusual in Russia, and for people 
of Russian descent in Europe and America.

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Irene Delse

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