Why not "May"? I've been thinking about this, and I don't think it's so much that I give her a different name-form because she's a woman, so much as it's that we pick up names from other people.
Theresa May is never called just "May", thus it's not her name. "Thatcher" is definitely "Thatcher" though.
This may be an example of the spreading of sexism, but that said, it's also definitely "Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone". I'd use "Boris and Ken" before "Johnson and Livingstone".
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Date: 2012-05-03 05:22 pm (UTC)"Cameron, Clegg, Theresa, Osbourne, Hunt" (Don't really know Alexander)
It's:
"Cameron, Clegg, Theresa May, Osbourne, Hunt"
Why not "May"? I've been thinking about this, and I don't think it's so much that I give her a different name-form because she's a woman, so much as it's that we pick up names from other people.
Theresa May is never called just "May", thus it's not her name. "Thatcher" is definitely "Thatcher" though.
This may be an example of the spreading of sexism, but that said, it's also definitely "Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone". I'd use "Boris and Ken" before "Johnson and Livingstone".