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[andybleaden]

slightly off topic, i need to write a letter to someone's secretary... is "Tracey" a female or male name (or more accurately, can i safely assume it is female... it is a person in england)

Female, very much so. Which is why it's so funny that gangsta rapper Ice-T's real name is Tracy.

I suppose that's the 'T'.

Tracy or Tracey (form of Thracius (masculine) or short for Teresa/Theresa (feminine)) also Traci, Tracie----wiki

Female with stats to prove it!!...why do they bother to find out

Tracy

View names similar to Tracy (male, female, anagrams)

Population Statistics for Tracy

Tracy is primarily a girls' name, but it is used for boys 19.39 percent of the time.

Total* Population in Top 1000: 307775 (19.39% male, 80.61% female) [source]

Popularity of the name Tracy for Boys

First Year in the Top 1000: 1880 (earliest year for which we have data)

Last Year in the Top 1000: 2000

Average Age: 42.10

Highest Percentage: 0.195% in 1966

Best Rank: #98 (in 1966)

Represented in the Top 1000 names in: 116 of 127 years (91.34%)

Total* Male Population in Top 1000: 59664

oh my god there is even a graph

www.nameplayground.com/Tracey

[Stereojack]

Also, I noticed on the WWUH website that they say Charlie COAL hace... to the best of my knowledge, it's COAL haze.

I know Charlie - it's definitely COAL hace.

[AllenLowe]

always had trouble with Joe Smith, Bessie Smith, Johnny Smith, and Jimmy Smith -

[tkeith]

Also, I noticed on the WWUH website that they say Charlie COAL hace... to the best of my knowledge, it's COAL haze.

I know Charlie - it's definitely COAL hace.

Gosh... sure wish he'd correct me when I introduce him, then. Probably just used to it. I shall fix it in the future... thanks, Jack.

[Niko]

slightly off topic, i need to write a letter to someone's secretary... is "Tracey" a female or male name (or more accurately, can i safely assume it is female... it is a person in england)

Female, very much so. Which is why it's so funny that gangsta rapper Ice-T's real name is Tracy.

I suppose that's the 'T'.

Tracy or Tracey (form of Thracius (masculine) or short for Teresa/Theresa (feminine)) also Traci, Tracie----wiki

Female with stats to prove it!!...why do they bother to find out

Tracy

View names similar to Tracy (male, female, anagrams)

Population Statistics for Tracy

Tracy is primarily a girls' name, but it is used for boys 19.39 percent of the time.

Total* Population in Top 1000: 307775 (19.39% male, 80.61% female) [source]

Popularity of the name Tracy for Boys

First Year in the Top 1000: 1880 (earliest year for which we have data)

Last Year in the Top 1000: 2000

Average Age: 42.10

Highest Percentage: 0.195% in 1966

Best Rank: #98 (in 1966)

Represented in the Top 1000 names in: 116 of 127 years (91.34%)

Total* Male Population in Top 1000: 59664

oh my god there is even a graph

www.nameplayground.com/Tracey

thanks again (female was right in that particular case (no individual data for secretaries available, i guess, but i could imagine that the picture looks clearer there))

[Chalupa]

How did Lester Bowie pronounce his last name?? Boo - ee ?? Am I correct in assuming its not pronounced like David Bowie?

[BillF]

How did Lester Bowie pronounce his last name?? Boo - ee ?? Am I correct in assuming its not pronounced like David Bowie?

That's how I've always heard it said.

[Chuck Nessa]

How did Lester Bowie pronounce his last name?? Boo - ee ?? Am I correct in assuming its not pronounced like David Bowie?

Right. Lester was not shy about correcting the pronunciation.

[Guest Bill Barton]

Bobby Previte?

Is it preh-VITE (rhyming with "right")?

[Chas]

Bobby Previte?

Is it preh-VITE (rhyming with "right")?

Nope . It's PREV-IT .

[Guest Bill Barton]

Bobby Previte?

Is it preh-VITE (rhyming with "right")?

Nope . It's PREV-IT .

Thanks, Chas!

[GA Russell]

Phineas Newborn, Jr.

I had always pronounced Phineas with a short i, as in Phineas T. Bluster.

But yesterday I heard Rhonda Hamilton on Sirius pronounce it with a long i. She is married to Michael Carvin, and she mentioned that she had once met Newborn, so I suppose she ought to know.

Anybody certain?

[Chas]

Phineas Newborn, Jr.

I had always pronounced Phineas with a short i, as in Phineas T. Bluster.

But yesterday I heard Rhonda Hamilton on Sirius pronounce it with a long i. She is married to Michael Carvin, and she mentioned that she had once met Newborn, so I suppose she ought to know.

Anybody certain?

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...st&p=342990

[Harold_Z]

It's as rhymes with Linus.

[Guest Bill Barton]

Drummer Paul Lytton's last name?

[Rosco]

Randy Sandke?

[Chuck Nessa]

It rhymes.

[Rosco]

It rhymes.

Got it. Thanks, Chuck.

[leadingoboe]

Kai Winding?

As a Dane, he would have pronounced it something like Kye (rhyming with "eye") Vinning, but very few people, apart from Danes, are capable of pronouncing ANY of their names correctly.

[James]

I'm thinking that Sam Yahel's name is pronounced YAH HELL' --- accent on second syllable. Anyone know for sure?

[James]

And how 'bout these Norwegians:

Knut Riisnaes (tenor)

Bjorn Alterhaug (bass)

Espen Rud (drums)

The first names are common of course (except Espen) but the last leave me wunnerin.

[AndrewHill]

Don't know if this name came up, but can someone tell me how to pronounce Byard Lancaster? Thanks.

[Big Beat Steve]

And how 'bout these Norwegians:

Knut Riisnaes (tenor)

Bjorn Alterhaug (bass)

Espen Rud (drums)

The first names are common of course (except Espen) but the last leave me wunnerin.

I wouldn't even DARE to imagine how this came out if pronounced by an English-speaking person of NON-Scandinavian descent.

As far as I can see a passably correct pronounciation would be pretty hard or even impossible to transcribe in "writing" anyhow.

[umum_cypher]

Don't know if this name came up, but can someone tell me how to pronounce Byard Lancaster? Thanks.

Easy, Bye-ard.

[AndrewHill]

Don't know if this name came up, but can someone tell me how to pronounce Byard Lancaster? Thanks.

Easy, Bye-ard.

Maybe for you! Thanks though!