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   Message 135,961 of 137,311   
   Evelyn C. Leeper to Keith F. Lynch   
   Monarchs [was Re: Household Algebra]   
   05 May 24 12:16:09   
   
   From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 5/3/24 6:36 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   > Tim Merrigan  wrote:   
   >> "Keith F. Lynch"  wrote:   
   >>> Your list also skips Jane, teenaged queen for nine days back in   
   >>> '53.  How can anyone forget her?   
   >   
   >> He also left out Cromwell.   
   >   
   > Evelyn is a she, not a he.  And Cromwell was not a monarch.   
   > Anyhow, there were two ruling Cromwells, Oliver and his son Richard.   
   > (Apparently "Lord Protector," like monarch, is an inherited position.)   
      
   For the record, I'm not fussy about my pronouns, and "Evelyn" being   
   gender-neutral, I'm used both to mispronunciation (as "EE-va-lin" rather   
   than "EV-a-lin"), and to random pronouns.   
      
   As for not going back a thousand years, I never claimed the poem did,   
   and it skips several "iffy" monarchs (notably Matilda, Eustace, Henry   
   the Young King, Louis the Lion, and Jane).   
      
   --   
   Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn, @eleeper@mastodon.social   
   Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick   
   themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.   
   --Sir Winston Churchill   
      
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