wrote:
I am not certain this is true, but I recall reading somewhere that the
Russian custom is masculine names.

Perhaps someone else can confirm this.

Mark Browne


I dunno, but maybe with enough Vodka and snowed in for the winter in
some isolated cabin in the most remote reaches of Siberia guys start
looking good......Naw, personally can't even imagine it. :-) I don't
know much about the Russian language, maybe "boat" is a masculine noun
in Russian- but I didn't think their nouns were gender specific.