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"word": "Deshawn"
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"word": "Shawna"
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"ref": "1984, Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Bantam Books, published 1987, page 169",
"text": "Two weeks later Dot and her girl, who was finally named Shawn, like most girls born that year, came back to work at the scales.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1996, Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question: Stories, Alfred A. Knopf, page 141",
"text": "Or take Sean, S-E-A-N. Been spelled like that for about five hundred years. But not them, they've gotta spell it S-H-A-W-N. Like they have a right to that name in the first place.",
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"(chiefly US) Alternative form of Shaun, a unisex given name."
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"21": "Sheena",
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"ref": "1984, Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Bantam Books, published 1987, page 169",
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"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1996, Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question: Stories, Alfred A. Knopf, page 141",
"text": "Or take Sean, S-E-A-N. Been spelled like that for about five hundred years. But not them, they've gotta spell it S-H-A-W-N. Like they have a right to that name in the first place.",
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