Mary

Mary
   Charles Dickens has an example of this being used as a transferred name to a girl whose name is unknown in one of his Sketches by Boz, ‘Gin shops’:
   ‘Gin for you, Sir?’ says the young lady when she has drawn it…
   ‘For me, Mary, my dear,’ replies the gentleman in brown.
   ‘My name an’t Mary as it happens,’ says the young girl…
   ‘Well, if it an’t, it ought to be,’ responds the irresistible one; ‘all the Mary’s as ever I see, was handsome girls.’
   In his book The Cockney (1953), Julian Franklyn remarks that small girls are still addressed as ‘Mary’.

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