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in reply to a message by queenv
I've known a few Bridgets of various spellings. I think somebody I went to school with named her daughter Bridget about eight or ten years ago but I can't be sure.
I used to like it somewhat but now I don't. It sounds like a frog.
I used to work with a Bridgette, pronounced just like Bridget. She's probably sixty now. How she got her name is interesting. She was named after her mother, Anne Marie. In eighth grade she was playing charades with her friends and did a Brigitte Bardot impression that was evidently very good, and her friends started calling her Bridget. (Not sure how they spelled it.) Within a couple years even her parents had quit calling her Anne Marie and called her Bridgette. The changeover was so complete that when her youngest sister was born when Bridgette was 15, her parents named the baby Anna, which they would not have done if she was still going by Anne Marie.
She was called Bridgette exclusively from then on, but only got around to making it legal and official a few years ago.
I used to like it somewhat but now I don't. It sounds like a frog.
I used to work with a Bridgette, pronounced just like Bridget. She's probably sixty now. How she got her name is interesting. She was named after her mother, Anne Marie. In eighth grade she was playing charades with her friends and did a Brigitte Bardot impression that was evidently very good, and her friends started calling her Bridget. (Not sure how they spelled it.) Within a couple years even her parents had quit calling her Anne Marie and called her Bridgette. The changeover was so complete that when her youngest sister was born when Bridgette was 15, her parents named the baby Anna, which they would not have done if she was still going by Anne Marie.
She was called Bridgette exclusively from then on, but only got around to making it legal and official a few years ago.
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