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Title: Re: [RC] OT: Frances

> it's been my
> experience that Frances is male and Francis is female. 
> :-)
> ericka
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Truman Prevatt
> > To: victoria
> > thompson
> > Cc: Ridecamp Correspondence
> > Correspondence
> > Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 8:15
> > PM
> > Subject: Re: [RC] OT: Frances
> >
> > Or the mule:-)!
> >
> > victoria thompson wrote:
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > From: Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: Re: [RC]   OT: Frances
> > >
> > > ... She can't decide if she wants to
> > > go north or south - typical female:-)...
> > >
> > > Truman
> > >
> > > Now here all this time I thought Frances was the formal name for FRANK
> > > !! ;-))
> > > Tori

According to a naming dictionary Frances is

Female

Origin: German
Meaning:  A Free Woman

Francis is unisex/male  (eg., Sir Francis Drake, St. Francis of assisi).

The NWS, being a duly non-descriminatory government agency, alternates storm names between male and female:  http://www.tpc.ncep.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml  and  http://hurricane.accuweather.com/adcbin/hurricane/index.asp

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Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/