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[Facts] Re: A question about female Japanese names
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According to this linguistic text at
http://people.umass.edu/jjmccart/handbook.pdf
that mentions O-Yuki somewhere in the middle this is one of several patterns how female nicknames were "built":Yukiko was turned into a nickname O-Yuki
Midori became O-Mido
etc.
Rene     www.AboutNames.ch
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Thanks!
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