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Lost Cousins newsletter - mid Oct 2022
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I don't think he can say that "Mathew" for "Martha" is a mistake in a PR from 1708. I have certainly come across the two names being used interchangably for women at that time before.
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I was going to say that I thought Matthew used to be a girl's name too.
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And Dennis used to be used as a girl's name a few centuries ago too.
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It looked like Mather to me!
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No, that's one of those old-style w's.
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