Posted on 03/30/2006 12:41:35 PM PST by twippo
"...it was supposed to be Orpah, a biblical name, but it got a little mangled."
I'd say it was an improvement. And I sort of like how she spells it backwards and gets "Harpo Productions", otherwise it would be hapro, lacks the same hollywood cachet, don't you think?
See post 680
No. Adjectives in music have Italian masculine endings, such as allego, adagio, crescendo, diminduendo, callando, smorzando, sforzando, etc. Add an Italian feminine "a" at the end, and you'd have a "feminine" classical music term, such as allegra, adagia, etc. There is no condaleezo in classic music. Or in rap, for that matter.
The string instrument "viola" often shows up as a feminine name because it has a feminine ending. Violino and violoncello are masculine, as is faggotto, the Italian term for the bassoon. Fuga, the Italian term for a "fugue", is feminine, but nobody would name their daughter by term in either language.
"Am I missing something, or does that list lack "John Wayne Gacy"?"
You beat me by 35 seconds.
I don't know if it's true or not, but I had a conversation with a guidance counselor years ago that claimed that one of her students had given a child this name.
Git-R-Done!
Isn't there a kid on TV named Angus.
It's sorta' cute but it also reminds me of cattle or Angus from AC/DC..
Thanks, Tax-chick! He'll show up when he's ready, I guess. : )
Congrats on your new arrival, too.
Thomas Jackson is a GREAT name! Hey, it's not too late to try and change my husband's mind. LOL.
And, no joke, I went to HS with a retarded girl named Pigg. Her idiot parents named her . . . Ima. I kid you not.
I also knew an Ima as in Imogene Pigg too. She taught business at the university I attended and also had a PhD in Economics.
"Thanks for your opinion! Have an awesome weekend."
You're quite welcome, and I will have a nice weekend. You do the same, now.
Hmmm. Grayson. I like that, actually. "Gray" for short would work, if Grayson was the full name. But they named him Grey. Just Grey with an "e". Ugh.
Cokie Roberts could marry Michael Caine and become Cokie Caine.
Why do we normally have three names? Why not more or less?
There is "con dolcezza", but the spelling got tangled up in the naming process.
I wouldn't have called it a man's name exclusively; it was unisex before Shirley Temple came around. But it definitely became a woman's name after her.
(shrug) inertia? There are many who only have two, however.
Notice how neither of those names had a “quita” in it? Or an “eisha”? Or more than four syllables? That’s because even in the motherland, they don’t give their kids the crazy names that we do in Black America. Many Africans even RESENT the implication that these names stem from their culture. I’ve yet to meet anyone from any African nation named Shaquandiniquah Takei’sha, or any other of the ‘colorful’ monikers we’re pinning on brand new precious lives.
You replied to the wrong person ( I didn't mention the infamous IMA, though I do know all about her ); but that's okay. :-)
I went to school with kids whose last name was "Cherry". Their parents named them "Bing" and "Royal Anne".
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