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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:39:51 -0500, "Violet \"F'loonslayer\" Volfie"
wrote:


"Kim E" wrote in message
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My 5th grade teacher was named Walterina. Her dad was Walter.

33 years later, I still have not forgotten the name Walterina.
Probably never will.

Kim

My insurance agent has a woman working for him named Williamina.

Giselle - some folks are just plain nutz when they name their kids

Having met people named things like Starshine and Amanita, I would
tend to agree!

However Giselle is actually a fairly common name nowdays. About the
time I named DD#3 Gabrielle, french based names seemed to take an
upswing in popularity. As a matter of fact, one of her best friends
in school is named Giselle.
I find it oddly ironic that the "three musketeers", Gabrielle,
Giselle, and Angelique, all wanted to take french this year (language
is required for all 8th grade students) and the school stuck all three
of them into the same spanish class. Go figure.

It seems that when they were not named after virtues, women in
Victorian and Edwardian England tended to be named with feminized
masculine names. Georgina, Georgette, Edwina, Davida, Stephanie,
Willimina, Charlotte, Charlene, etc... At least the ones mentioned in
literature and the histories. Is Victoria a feminization of Victor or
were both taken from the word at about the same time?

NightMist
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Violet "F'loonslayer" Volfie wrote:

I'm glad you mentioned you were female. I thought you were our token male.


There's a few males about.

Giselle (do you pronounce your name the same as the name with the "e" on the
end?)

Yes, that's how to pronounce it. I answer to the German, French and
Spanish versions though.

-georg

My name is the feminine version of Julius, which was my grandfather's name.

Julia in MN
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It probably has roots in Deutsch: "Kommst du mit"
& "Kommen Sie mit." (My spelling and grammar is
rusty.) In either German or English it is quite
easy to grasp the meaning. I like short and sweet
but tend to ramble on myself!! LOL
PAT in VA/USA

Maureen Wozniak wrote:

It means "to come along" as in: I'm going to the LQS. Want to come with?

Maureen

Leigh Harris wrote:

"Maureen Wozniak" wrote

In Illinois, Chicagoan's who find themselves south of I-80 are puzzled
when someone asks if they "want to go with?"



Okay, I'm a looong way south of the I-80. Any chance of explaining
what that
means?

I find more and more people here are asking for "the bathroom" too,
which is
strange. In most houses in Australia, they won't find a toilet in
there! We
Aussies are generally much more direct. We just ask for the loo, dunny,
toilet...

I wanna come with! Does your LQS give a birthday discount?

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"Maureen Wozniak" wrote in message
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It means "to come along" as in: I'm going to the LQS. Want to come with?

Maureen

Leigh Harris wrote:

"Maureen Wozniak" wrote

In Illinois, Chicagoan's who find themselves south of I-80 are puzzled
when someone asks if they "want to go with?"


Okay, I'm a looong way south of the I-80. Any chance of explaining what
that
means?

I find more and more people here are asking for "the bathroom" too, which
is
strange. In most houses in Australia, they won't find a toilet in there!
We
Aussies are generally much more direct. We just ask for the loo, dunny,
toilet...

Oh my, this all gets so silly. Kate, you had me quite confused, as I
live in NE and have never heard this said in regards to knocking on
doors or windows - 'knocked up' is pregnant here... of course what you
call NE isn't where I am - Nebraska!

Page in Omaha.....

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:00:13 GMT, georg wrote:

Williamina is a fine old name, although it is usually spelled differently.

Giselle was my best friend one summer at day care in Ohio many many
years ago. So you aren't the only one out there. Only, she wanted
everyone to call her Artimis.

I am very happy I wasn't given my mother's maiden name as a first name.
It's Condon. If I had been a boy, I'd be Ken Jr.

-georg

Well, if Williamina works like Wilma, maybe she is named after her
father. One of my friends in Dundee is Wilma, named after her father
William. I have met other Wilmas, and they tell me they are named
after their fathers as well.


-- Jo in Scotland

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:28:23 -0500, Julia Altshuler
wrote:

Johanna Gibson wrote:

I went to school with a girl named Clark.


It isn't unusual in the U.S. South to give a girl her mother's maiden
name or some other last name in the family as a first name. The writers
Flannery O'Connor, Harper Lee and Carson McCullers are examples. Boys
get last names as first names too: Walker Percy, Truman Capote. I
wonder if your schoolmate's parents were following this naming
tradition. Come to think of it, it isn't only the Southern U.S. I'm
thinking of Reeve Lindbergh and Land Lindbergh.


--Lia

It is unusual in Eugene, Oregon. "Rainbow", "River", "Chantrelle"
[like the mushroom], "Heron", "Raven", "Sky" were perfectly normal
though.


-- Jo in Scotland

Mine does, Wendy, if you can make it to Louisiana!! LOL

--
Donna in NE La.
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I wanna come with! Does your LQS give a birthday discount?

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"Maureen Wozniak" wrote in message
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It means "to come along" as in: I'm going to the LQS. Want to come with?

Maureen

Leigh Harris wrote:

"Maureen Wozniak" wrote

In Illinois, Chicagoan's who find themselves south of I-80 are puzzled
when someone asks if they "want to go with?"


Okay, I'm a looong way south of the I-80. Any chance of explaining what
that
means?

I find more and more people here are asking for "the bathroom" too,
which is
strange. In most houses in Australia, they won't find a toilet in there!
We
Aussies are generally much more direct. We just ask for the loo, dunny,
toilet...

Page wrote:

Oh my, this all gets so silly. Kate, you had me quite confused, as I
live in NE and have never heard this said in regards to knocking on
doors or windows - 'knocked up' is pregnant here... of course what you
call NE isn't where I am - Nebraska!

Page in Omaha.....

County Durham in the NE of England. LOOOOOONG way from you!

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