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Zudgemud posted:If you look up the actual meanings of many common names they have these kind of meanings in ancient Greek, Hebrew, Germanic or similar old dead languages or dialects. Like Alexander meaning "defender of man", Alfred being "elf council" or "bright council" and Michael being the rethorical question "who is like God?". I thought Michael meant "he who is like God"
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Came across Reason Reason today. I personally wouldn't give my kid the same first and last names but I am sure they had some motive for that.
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# ? May 3, 2022 23:02 |
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venus de lmao posted:Bring back names like If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned imo I want to see old medieval names like Childeric and Galswintha make a comeback
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# ? May 4, 2022 02:53 |
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Do Arthurian names count ? I know (or know of) children under 10 called Olwen, Nimue, Mordred, Morgause, Segwarides (mispronounced: rides like the English word), Caradoc, Galahad, and Leodagrance (note the misspelling).
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# ? May 4, 2022 07:56 |
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The other week, I remembered the name of a girl I went to middle school with. Tiny thing, liked to wear yellow clothes. Melissa Bee. Honeybee Bee. BB. Congrats Mr. & Mrs. Bee, I finally got the joke some seventeen years later.
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# ? May 4, 2022 13:58 |
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venus de lmao posted:I thought Michael meant "he who is like God" No it's a question, some rabbi was real witty a few thousand years ago.
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# ? May 4, 2022 15:30 |
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A 3yo called Nevaeh has been in the news here in Australia because she was left on a hot bus for 6 hours. She's okay.
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# ? May 7, 2022 22:34 |
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Coworker's new baby: AbbyGale Raeliana [lastname] Two coworkers who are perpetually engaged/common-law married have the surnames Pfister and Guerra and if they're ever there at the same time we call them WARFIST gotta make your own fun sometimes
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# ? May 8, 2022 13:02 |
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Someone on one of my work calls today was named Chris Chan.
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# ? May 12, 2022 22:01 |
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Identical twins Sol and Luna.
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# ? May 12, 2022 22:19 |
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Marcade posted:Identical twins Sol and Luna. are you sure they were people and not pokemon game carts
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# ? May 12, 2022 23:05 |
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Unfortunately for them, yes.
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# ? May 13, 2022 02:22 |
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I know Korean-Australian Lady Disdain has a new favorite as of 11:42 on May 13, 2022 |
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boysie first name: forever last name: young
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# ? May 13, 2022 21:26 |
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Jeanmarket Market Lapepea *last name* Zlatomir Fung middle name Shirk
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# ? May 14, 2022 20:44 |
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I saw a sign for a guy running for a county office named Yxstian Gutierrez. I have no idea if Yxstian is a form of Christian or how to pronounce it but that’s definitely a new one for me.
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# ? May 14, 2022 20:53 |
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Aphrodite posted:I found out recently a friend's legal name is just "S". Yeah, one of my closest friends is legally just the letter J [last name], doesn't even have a middle name. Her mom was super hippy dippy, so who knows
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# ? May 14, 2022 22:05 |
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Time to empty my name list again. First/Middle Names -Ya'Majesty Dream -Perseverance (I like this one, one of those old school Puritan virtue names) -Spottedeaglewolves (yes, all one word) -Jausylinn -Velvety -Oarren -Juanickwa -twins Heaven and Nevaeh -Swayd -Daizee -Cirrus -Ceaser Last/Full Names -Makes Room For Them -Crystal Waters -Cox-Skipper -Bubbles King (I think I've posted her here before) -Karen Moist -Chip Munk (legal name Charles) -Sky Powers -Derandon Chance -Raven Rook
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# ? May 15, 2022 01:31 |
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Processed paperwork for a Minerva Cooper, who goes by Minnie.
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# ? May 17, 2022 12:41 |
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Ralph Hurley posted:I saw a sign for a guy running for a county office named Yxstian Gutierrez. I read it as "Exist-ian". Good name for someone who exists.
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# ? May 17, 2022 15:02 |
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Today I met a boy called Corinth, and overheard a woman introduce her newborn as Ian.
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# ? May 18, 2022 04:48 |
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Ian's a perfectly respectable name.
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# ? May 18, 2022 07:15 |
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It is a perfectly respectable old man name. The youngest Ian I've ever encountered around here was born in the '50s. I've known a couple of younger Iains from the UK, but this is regional Australia so I'm pretty confident in guessing that he's an Ian. Also, among the ever-growing crowd of Zaylens and Kaeleighs, perfectly respectable names are noteworthy.
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# ? May 18, 2022 07:26 |
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Ian is one of those weird names where in places like the UK and Australia and New Zealand it's all but died out as a baby name but in the US it was rare until 60s and 70s and since the early 80s it's never been outside the top 100 baby names
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# ? May 18, 2022 07:32 |
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Lady Disdain posted:It is a perfectly respectable old man name. The youngest Ian I've ever encountered around here was born in the '50s. There's also the Ian in the original Fallout who's mostly known for shooting the player in the back by accident and dying by walking through a force field. These are all the Ians I know of. Thank you.
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# ? May 18, 2022 10:36 |
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I elect to believe that Corinth and Ian are nicknames of the same kid, Corinthian Leather Smith
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# ? May 18, 2022 14:46 |
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Woebin posted:Ian Curtis died at 23 so it's clearly a young man's name. Surely you didn't forget about bad boy hearttthrob mathematician Ian Malcolm?
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# ? May 18, 2022 18:21 |
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Just read an interesting journal article* by someone with the surname SteelFisher. Don't see mid-name capitalisation too often. SteelFisher, G. K. et al. (2015). Threats to polio eradication in high-conflict areas in Pakistan and Nigeria: a polling study of caregivers of children younger than 5 years. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 15(10), 1183–1192. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00178-4
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Phy posted:Surely you didn't forget about bad boy hearttthrob mathematician Ian Malcolm? For what it's worth, Jeff Goldblum was born in 1952, and in the book he is described as 35 years old, which puts his birthdate in the mid 50s, so that fits right in Lady Disdain's model. However, I am perfectly willing to accept that different countries/regions have different popular names, so none of this bothers me. (Also, I know an Ian from the 70s-80s, for what it's worth, and we're both American.) Lady Disdain posted:Today I met a boy called Corinth, and overheard a woman introduce her newborn as Ian. I'm actually more interested in how this Corinth is pronounced. Please tell me stress is on the first syllable.
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# ? May 19, 2022 22:47 |
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Speaking of Corinth/Ian, I came across Corinthian Nutter, a black teacher who helped to get her students into an integrated school in 1949.
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# ? May 20, 2022 00:40 |
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Harvey TWH posted:I'm actually more interested in how this Corinth is pronounced. Please tell me stress is on the first syllable. The British way. So yes, but with the R sound in the second syllable: /'kɒ.ɹɪnθ/ I suppose.
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# ? May 20, 2022 05:43 |
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The surname Horneij, which probably isn't supposed to be pronounced like "horny" but try to stop me.
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# ? May 23, 2022 07:40 |
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Stormy Bay E: I just found out her full name is Stormy Gale Bay. Parents Marcade has a new favorite as of 21:24 on May 24, 2022 |
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# ? May 25, 2022 16:25 |
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That's the sound the garbage disposal makes when there's a clog!
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# ? May 25, 2022 21:27 |
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found out there was a guy who lived in my house once named King Kok
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# ? May 28, 2022 06:11 |
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halleberry molester awesome xaley peaches kumson mercedezes prairie lekekey lucky fredasharron last name: heckenlively. (they are deceased)
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# ? May 28, 2022 22:16 |
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I can buy every name on that list as real but the second one. What the heck?
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# ? May 28, 2022 22:23 |
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marshmallow creep posted:I can buy every name on that list as real but the second one. What the heck? did a double take myself, but i can assure you its real.
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Jinger
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