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Old July 13th, 2012 #47
Steven L. Akins
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Originally Posted by N.B. Forrest View Post
If it sounds like a last name, don't use it as a first name: "Oh look - there goes Macaulay Jeremiah Bumpass, of the Sunnyvale Trailer Park Bumpasses!"
If I had any ancestors with the surname Macaulay, you can bet I would have used it as a first name for one of my sons, being that it is a fine old Scottish surname; even if the only person that I know of that has Macaulay for a given name is more than a little bit weird: