From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , Athel Cornish-Bowden   
    writes:   
   []   
   >In the 1950s my parents knew someone called Barbara, who was the   
   >youngest of four sisters, called Faith, Hope, Charity and Barbara. By   
   >the time they reached No. 4 her parents appear to have run out of   
   >suitable names.   
   >   
   >   
   I have in my tree at least one Thirza/Thirzen, which I'm pretty sure   
   means thirteenth. (She's the twelfth that I know of, but I could easily   
   be unaware of one.) The other 11 (that I know of) are conventional   
   names.   
      
   (Not that this is anything new, of course: Quintus, Sextus, Septimus,   
   and Octavia[n] - and variations - were not at all uncommon in Roman   
   times.)   
      
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   (Where has the "treat northern Ireland differently" option gone?)   
      
   Three- (or four-) way referendum, if we _have_ to have another one.   
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   Petitions are still unfair.   
   https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/232770 255soft.uk #fairpetitions   
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   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
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   you say it in Latin")   
      
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