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Post by tawny on Feb 26, 2017 23:55:09 GMT
The local school system has the high schoolers doing it at the start of each day. Our Board of Ed system teaches sentence diagraming in elementary school.
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Post by upupandaway on Feb 27, 2017 11:20:40 GMT
In my life I have known a Cinnamon, a Strawberry, and a Juniper. Here in France, car maker Renault has a model called the Mégane. So it was only a matter of time before a Mr. and Mrs. Renault would name their daughter Mégane. (Heard about that over a decade ago.) There's a pair of Dutch identical twin professional racing drivers, Tim and Tom Coronel. Their father Tom Sr., also a racing driver, gave them the respective middle names of Alfa and Romeo, a nod to the Italian auto manufacturer. But all this is tame compared to some of the things y'all have seen.
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Post by glennonp on Feb 27, 2017 16:43:18 GMT
The local school system has the high schoolers doing it at the start of each day. Our Board of Ed system teaches sentence diagraming in elementary school. My daughter is a junior high English teacher and has her kids do sentence diagramming. I never understood it when I was a kid and still don't today! Luckily, I'm not in her class.
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Post by adamcsc on Dec 28, 2020 17:02:32 GMT
My youngest sister is named "Wynter Storm".
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Post by pianistclare on Jan 2, 2021 14:43:03 GMT
that's actually a very pretty name. I'm old school though: Saints' names. LOL
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Post by adamcsc on Jan 2, 2021 16:44:02 GMT
that's actually a very pretty name. I'm old school though: Saints' names. LOL Well, my name is Adam, heard of Saint Adamo?
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Post by jimg on Jan 7, 2021 2:55:31 GMT
My RN niece worked for awhile at a county hospital. There were a lot of children patients with unusual names. Two brothers, for example, named Orangejello and Lemonjello. The accent is on the second syllable. My brother knew a sister and brother pair who were named Aquanet and Lavoris. Yes, I believe they were named after products.
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Post by adamcsc on Jan 8, 2021 20:02:47 GMT
My RN niece worked for awhile at a county hospital. There were a lot of children patients with unusual names. Two brothers, for example, named Orangejello and Lemonjello. The accent is on the second syllable. My brother knew a sister and brother pair who were named Aquanet and Lavoris. Yes, I believe they were named after products. My older sister had a friend named Tequilla. Which, I mean, there are people named Brandy, so why not?
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Post by pianistclare on Jan 12, 2021 15:00:30 GMT
My RN niece worked for awhile at a county hospital. There were a lot of children patients with unusual names. Two brothers, for example, named Orangejello and Lemonjello. The accent is on the second syllable. My brother knew a sister and brother pair who were named Aquanet and Lavoris. Yes, I believe they were named after products. My older sister had a friend named Tequilla. Which, I mean, there are people named Brandy, so why not? That's an old old joke. Told so many times. I had a woman in my choir that SWORE that her mom assisted at Aretha Franklin's birth. Said she was to be named urethrae until she intervened. I highly doubt it.
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Post by glennonp on Jan 12, 2021 22:10:52 GMT
In the 1970s there was a football player at the University of Nebraska named Wonderful Terrific Monds. Hands down, one of the best names in program history. You might ask, "Who would name a kid 'Wonderful'"? His father...Wonderful Terrific Monds, Sr. Carrying on the family tradition, Wonderful Terrific Monds Jr. had a son and named him Wonderful Terrific Monds III.
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Post by katy777 on Feb 4, 2021 23:36:32 GMT
I was going to go with Antonella but there are too many Anthonys in my family and husbands family too. So we went for Sofia and Melania..
Everyone spells thier names wrong. {Sigh}.
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Post by katy777 on Feb 4, 2021 23:41:16 GMT
Our Board of Ed system teaches sentence diagraming in elementary school. My daughter is a junior high English teacher and has her kids do sentence diagramming. I never understood it when I was a kid and still don't today! Luckily, I'm not in her class. Lierature and reading will help with that awful diagraming.
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Post by katy777 on Feb 5, 2021 0:02:59 GMT
Some other relative names Pasqualina Matea Domenica
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Post by katy777 on Feb 5, 2021 0:06:25 GMT
My RN niece worked for awhile at a county hospital. There were a lot of children patients with unusual names. Two brothers, for example, named Orangejello and Lemonjello. The accent is on the second syllable. My brother knew a sister and brother pair who were named Aquanet and Lavoris. Yes, I believe they were named after products. My older sister had a friend named Tequilla. Which, I mean, there are people named Brandy, so why not? Titos handmade too....lol and Margarita.
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Post by homeschooldad on Apr 10, 2021 17:38:33 GMT
In my poor estimation, these should be the names of choice for Catholic children, in this order:
Saints' names (from the 2000-year history of the Church) New Testament names (there would be some overlap here with saints' names, in that it is the apostolic beginning of the Church at Pentecost)
Old Testament names (this is more of a Protestant thing, I have to wonder if they subconsciously want to ignore Christian history, because, after all, 1500 years of that is Catholic/Orthodox) Possibly venerable old family names or surnames, as long as those are coupled with a saint's name Names of historical or ethnic significance, again, as long as they are coupled with a saint's name
It's very hard to think of a Catholic naming their child Leaf, River, or Sailor, but I wouldn't be surprised. The wheels are totally off the wagon as far as contemporary Catholic naming customs are concerned.
I may be reading more into this, than is actually there --- many people just "like a name", "think it sounds nice", and so on. Outside of faith and various ethnic circles, I'm not sure there is a whole lot of thought that goes into the significance or meaning of a name.
The big thing about a generation ago was Celtic- and Irish-derived names, which at the time were seen as a bit exotic and unusual (at least outside of Celtic and Irish circles), and thankfully, most if not all of these were saints' names. There seems to be no end to the ways to spell Caitlin/Katelyn/Catlin/Kaitlen/Kaytelynne/and so on. But at least it's a saint's name, and thank God for that. Outside of Ireland, no one has the slightest idea how to pronounce "Niamh" (it's "neeve", to rhyme with Steve). I didn't until I looked it up.
And the big thing now, at least among white people, are the two-syllable English-sounding names, that are used as epicene (unisex) names. Taylor, Carter, Hayden, Brayden, Hunter, Austin, and so on. The one consolation here, is that if you were to dig deeply into the hagiography of the English recusant martyrs, you'd probably find a lot of surnames that would pass the two-syllable English euphony test.
Black names, one never ceases to be amazed (at least when that "one" is white, as I am). Some of these names, even though they "sound black", actually are saints' names, or derived from Christian history --- Katrina, Latisha (Leticia), Darius, Dante, and so on. (They get spelled every which way, but as long as the name is intact, no problem.) I am all in favor of historically downtrodden people reclaiming ethnic pride through naming conventions, but let's just say that things get creative. And not just black people. LDS, especially in the inland "Mormon Empire" of the mountain West, have no rivals when it comes to creativity. I have had to wonder if they seek out unique names partially because they believe they will, if they live good, steadfast LDS lives, and go through the temple ordinances, eventually become gods of their own planets, and every god needs a unique name. (I am probably way overthinking that.)
Some bona fide saints' names will surprise you. In trying to choose a name for our child (we did not know his gender yet), we got the wonderful old TAN book, "Is It A Saint's Name?". Not only is there a Hannah and a Montana, but Elvis is a saint's name as well (Ailbe). Perhaps in that English martyrology I mentioned above, there is a saint with the last name of Presley. Hard telling.
And keep in mind that some surnames are saints' names. Mine is. So I guess I'd be covered if I wanted to name a daughter Strawberry Lemonade
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