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What is in a name? Posted by on Jan 31, 2012

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about “the average Joe” and in that post I mentioned* how often the name ‘Joe’ is used in America to refer to an average or normal person or sometimes it is used to generically to refer to a person whose name you don’t know.  I also mentioned that Joe…

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