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From: "Gordon Barlow" <>
Subject: Re: [OEL] An Unusual Name in Yorkshire, England
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:57:03 -0700
References: <3.0.1.32.20031024095745.0068ae20@mail.gil.com.au>


> ... my mother's name was Enis (a corruption of the Italian Inez),
> Eunice
>
Not necessarily a corruption, I think: more a variant of a common original.
Other dialect variants are probably Annis (Dutch, is it?) and Anne itself.

Gordon Barlow


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