She had always wanted to be a boy and would never answer if she was called Georgina. So everyone called her George.
(Enid Blyton, Five Run Away Together, 1944)
Georgina
January 29, 2010 at 7:28 pm (Female Names, G, Name Quotes A-Z)
Tags: Enid Blyton, George, Georgina
George
November 2, 2009 at 5:42 pm (G, Male Names, Name Quotes A-Z)
Tags: George, Malcolm Saville
“His name is George… How peculiar.”/ “I don’t see anything peculiar about it.”
(Malcolm Saville, Lone Pine Five, 1949)
Onesiphorus
November 1, 2009 at 5:31 pm (Male Names, Name Quotes A-Z, O)
Tags: George, Onesiphorus, Victoria Glendinning
There was also a Sir George Onesiphorus Paul (1746-1820) a friend of Sir Walter Scott. He had been named simply Onesiphorus and added the George himself, in self defence.
(Victoria Glendinning, Trollope, 1992)
