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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