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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:39:51 -0500, "Violet \"F'loonslayer\" Volfie"
wrote: "Kim E" wrote in message oups.com... 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 -- "To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains." -Mary Pettibone Poole |
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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 |
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My name is the feminine version of Julius, which was my grandfather's name.
Julia in MN -- This message has been scanned for viruses by Norton Anti-Virus http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/ |
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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... |
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I wanna come with! Does your LQS give a birthday discount?
-- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm de-fang email address to reply "Maureen Wozniak" wrote in message . com... 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... |
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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..... |
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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 |
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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 |
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Mine does, Wendy, if you can make it to Louisiana!! LOL
-- Donna in NE La. "frood" wrote in message ... I wanna come with! Does your LQS give a birthday discount? -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm de-fang email address to reply "Maureen Wozniak" wrote in message . com... 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... |
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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! -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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