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Message board > consonant or vowel?
consonant or vowel?
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alien boy
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Jamie and Jimmy are classic diminutives for James - ask any Scot!
I�m pleased you don�t mind your thread being high jacked. It can be fun to go off on a tangent 
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19 Dec 2008
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Apryll12
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Yes, you�ve got a point there, Zora! By the way, what�s the nickname you like to use for Zora? Or is that already one? |
19 Dec 2008
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Zora
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It�s already a shortened version of "Zoraida"... but the honest truth is my real name is "Linda" - I picked Zora because I like the name and it usually isn�t taken when I sign up somewhere. 
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19 Dec 2008
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alien boy
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Well, the following names....
Sydney Pollack (bloke)
Sidney Poitier (bloke)
Sidney Nolan (painter, bloke)
Sydney Coale (actress)
Sidney Greenbush (actress)
So it can be used either way for both genders. With the Beckham�s naming their little ones from the city they were conceived in you may hear a few more �Sydney�s over the next few years too!
I had agirlfriend named Lesley at one stage. Another girlfriend at a different time had a father named Lesley! No, I didn�t get confused between the two of them...
Marie/Maree/Mary and the name is also Japanese - Mari (without any European influence)
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19 Dec 2008
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Zora
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Now.. let�s move on to weird names! Or aka parent�s with a sick sense of humour .. 
Example - calling your kid: Henry Henry, or "Tiny" and the child is six feet!
Oh and for real... I know of a "Mary Christmas" ...
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19 Dec 2008
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alien boy
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Well, I know a couple of bad ones... Just check out Frank Zappa�s kids - Dweezil, Moon Unit, Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen. His other child is Ahmet Emuukha Rodan - I reckon its the most reasonable of the lot. Bet the other three copped heaps at school.
Names suffer from cross cultural translation too. If my wife & I have children I�ve been banned from naming them. I like �Nathan� for a boy but it sounds too much like �Onee san� when spoken with a japanese accent. Onee san means older sister. I like �Imogen� for a girl , but that would be like calling her �spudman� or �potato man�...
P.s. I am sticking to names that I hope will not offend anyone. I have known a few others with very very bad combinations of given and family names...
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19 Dec 2008
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Zora
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Okay... Mr. Zappa wins hands down with those names...  they are amazingly bad - he must have been smoking something really "good" when he thought up those babies... His kids must have grown up telling all their friends their names were "Dennis, Marcia, Martina and Andy!"
I�m afraid that I�d have to agree with your wife on the "Imogen" ... Here in Spain, they have some biblical names that make you just go "ouch" poor kid - what did he do to deserve THAT.. like - Angustias (Anguish) and Purificaci�n, (Purification)...
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19 Dec 2008
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alien boy
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Gotta love those Spanish Catholic names (not).
my wife and I have shortlisted �Ivy� but names need to be in Kanji or Kana for japanese birth certificates. There�s really no �v� in the Japanese character sets, but the Kanji we like would translate as Ai bi which means something along the line of beautiful love (if I remember correctly). Kanji is a little quirky though - some characters have 20 or more different pronunciations!!!!
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19 Dec 2008
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alien boy
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I wonder where my last post went? Maybe I�m talking/typing too much...
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19 Dec 2008
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