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Stephen schrieb:
> Just out of interest, does German have names that are used for either sex? Like
> Lesley or Francis in English.
Some, yes. Though most of them are either (a) originally shortened forms
of distinctively male or female names (e.g. "Chris", which could be a
short form of either "Christoph" or "Christian", but also of
"Christina", "Christiane" or "Christel"), (b) names "imported" from
other languages (e.g. "Etienne") or (c) both (e.g. "Sam" could be short
for either "Samuel" or "Samantha" - or, in recent days, "Samwise" for
that matter :-) - with only "Samuel" having a significant tradition here
in Germany to be considered a "German" name [though 70 years ago many
people would have strongly objected even to that, but that's a totally
different story].)
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