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posted by [personal profile] gillo at 11:04am on 10/02/2011
Gillian in the UK is very much a name of a specific period - almost all those I know are somewhere between 45 and 58. I don't know anyone in my general circle/age group who uses "an" for hotel, historian or herb. The latter has a particularly strong "h" in most of the UK, so it's not surprising. Yet it comes, of course, from the French "herbe", where the "h" is never pronounced. US practice may well be fossilised, like the use of "gotten" as a past participle.

I'm Gillian too, though only my mother uses my full name.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 11:08am on 10/02/2011
Whereas the only Gillian I've met in the US was only a couple of years older than me.
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posted by [identity profile] square-egg.livejournal.com at 01:46pm on 10/02/2011
As is this Canadian Gillian.
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posted by [identity profile] gillpolack.livejournal.com at 10:48am on 11/02/2011
And I turn 50 this year so I exactly fit the UK Gillian demographic. This makes entire sense, as Australia was still very British in 1961, and Melbourne particularly so.
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