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February 6

Does the UK still vote in EU parliament?

It's still a member, but it won't be its issue anymore. But again, it could have some stake in hgow the EU will look like after Brexit day.--Hofhof (talk) 19:27, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Yes but reduced. According to the Article 50 the UK can not participate on both sides of the negotiations regarding its withdrawal. The UK still has all its formal votes on other EU matters but in kind of special diplomatic "kindly play along" mode the votes are not used anymore since the divorce is decided already. It is a delicate balance now since the UK is trying to reach a favorable post-Brexit trade deal at the same time and thus pushing its national political agenda against the EU mainstream, which the UK has an impressive, some would even call it notorious, history in, would likely fire back very bad on its current and future trade deal negotiations. --Kharon (talk) 20:17, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

The UK MEPs will presumably remain in place until Brexit is finalized and implemented. Who knows whether the European Parliament election, 2019 will take place in the UK... AnonMoos (talk) 20:17, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Cyril as a given name for a female

Does Cyril have any history as a given name for females? DuncanHill (talk) 19:47, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Not that I can find, though it seems that the name Cyrille, the French form of Cyril, is sometimes used in the Anglosphere as a feminine form. This seems a little perverse since Cyril comes from the name Kyrillos, a derivative of kyrios, "lord", but it's the sort of perversity that often happens when people get inventive with Christian names. (The source for all this). --Antiquary (talk) 21:07, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

There appears to be a German female given name Kyrilla. Do bear in mind that while kyrios means lord in Greek, kyria means lady, and both can take the diminutive form. Wymspen (talk) 22:26, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

• Kira is quite common, and it is made very clear that the heroine Kira of the Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand's We, the Living is derived from Cyril and that the story is semi-autobiographical. μηδείς (talk) 04:51, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

So, nobody has any examples of Cyril as a given name for a female, but people do have examples of other names being used. I was asking because our article Phantom Thread claims that one of the characters is a woman called Cyril, and it struck me as bizarre. DuncanHill (talk) 15:31, 12 February 2018 (UTC)