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[Opinions] Re: Marion

by abbasdaughter

10/3/2010, 7:10 PM

Interesting... It's not a commonly used adjective... Majored in ling. and have spoken En. all my life and have never heard it used as anything but a name. I suspect many on this site don't even know what it means. Definitely not one that came up in my TESL courses.

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- Sofia +3

10/4/2010, 5:47 AM

I assume that Catholics would use Marian as an adjective more and that's the context I've seen it.

- abbasdaughter +2

10/4/2010, 5:34 PM

ah... so basically, something related to Mary then... that explains it... I'm not Catholic.

- Sofia +1

10/5/2010, 5:57 AM

Here's a couple of instances of such usage:

http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/resources/music/seasons.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Marian_music

- abbasdaughter

10/5/2010, 9:51 PM

Thanks.

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