On 01/12/16 23:43, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes: > >>> Depends, I only know Mallorys who are women so her seems appropriate. >>> >> In a British context "Mallory and Irvine" were two (male) climbers who >> died on Everest in 1924 (tales of daring...), so it's easy to expect >> (from this side of the pond) that 'Mallory' would be male. However he >> was really George Mallory. >> >> Meanwhile that search engine's images shows far more female Mallorys, >> so I've learnt something. > > "baby name Mallory" in search engine gave me several sites, most of > them telling me that is a girl's name except for one. > > Didn't think of doing image search, but that's a good way ;-) Heh, I didn't think about any of this. I was remembering the description of 'Man-in-the-middle Attack' from Applied Cryptography (Bruce Schneier) which implies that Mallory is male. ATB, Ramsay Jones