On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Hall, Jack wrote: > A new question: how do we determine the sex of a person. May we infer > from the forename if we assume it is (usually?) used for one sex or the > other? Do we need further evidence, and what might that be? I hesitate > to email someone asking: What sex are you? If it can be determined from a person's forename, why bother? Waste of time... unless we have to make sure exceptional people aren't confused with others. jgm John G. Marr Cataloger CDS, UL Univ. of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] **There are only 2 kinds of thinking: "out of the box" and "outside the box." Opinions belong exclusively to the individuals expressing them, but sharing is permitted.