How is Arthur a Chinese name? I can call myself Ronaldo but it doesn't mean Ronaldo is a Chinese name now, does it?
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My partner once told me that about Irving, that it was an 'American' name but so many Jewish people used it to assimilate that it became a 'Jewish American' name. I'm not sure what his source for that tidbit was, though.
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Yeah there's a lot of irony that a lot of names "switched places" this way, that a lot of popular "Bible" names get thought of as all-American Gentile names - Ben, Josh, Dave, Rachel, Becky, Mary
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I had to smile at that last bit, because my uncle was called Arthur, and he *was* British.
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He was also one of the first UK IBM programmers, and he was a lovely man, always gentle and quiet. He died of bowel cancer a few years ago, in his sixties. I miss him.
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