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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I just began on the free sample of "The Loved One" .... And already I am disillusioned. Evelyn Waugh is a man?? Nowadays, and on this west side of The Pond, Evelyn is more often a female. I've run into this use before, but it never occurred to me!
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Even better, his first wife also was named Evelyn. They were known as He-Evelyn and She-Evelyn. Oh, and in Britspeak, that first "E" is long, as in Eve.