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On Jan 21, 3:04*pm, Adrian Simpson wrote:
Yes they do.

A few years back we had two Daves. *The second one to join was younger,
so got referred to as "young Dave", which after a while he started
objecting to on the grounds that he was 30. *Problem was solved when the
other Dave left.


Reminds me of the incomer to East Anglia who objected to being
referred to as "boy" (pronounced roughly "boor") until he worked out
that you only ceased to be a "boy" when you were sufficiently mature
to be an "old boy".