Posted on 03/30/2006 12:41:35 PM PST by twippo
Don't forget Brigham!
I like the name Mungo.
Can't get any more Scottish than that...except maybe Hamish...
OMG, I have an Uncle Parley and and Uncle Pratt...Those names seemed so normal to me I forgot.
Altamira replied: Oh, right...it's all about YOU and it's all bad.
Why so touchy?
Several posters on this thread have said that it is a musical term meaning 'with sweetness' but her mother changed it a bit.
I thought "Balqis" was the traditional name for the Queen of Sheba.
Yep. Finally went through the entire thread. Somebody needed an Italian spelling lesson.
Gov Jim Hogg back from when in Texas named his daughter Ima.
Actually Catherine Bronte was responsible for the switch when she gave the name to one of her female characters.
Shirley was originally one of those surnmme given to the first-born son as a first name when a heiress married. (eg in Pride and Prejudice Fitzwiiliam Darcy's mother's maiden name was orginally Fitzwilliam)
So when Miss Jane Shirley married Mr John Sirius, their fisrt borm son might end up being named Shirley Sirius.
I was making a point that I've observed about threads that are negative about black people and threads that are positive. The negative threads always get more attention. It's not necessarily a bad thing, just occasionally annoying. I take the blame for not explaining myself more thoroughly as I did in a later post. I did mean my have a good weekend very seriously because I hate ending a day with negative feeling.
Brigham or Bring'em Young, Ha!
(Now I'll be in trouble)
Condoleeza is Italian.
The name "Condoleezza" is derived from the Italian music-related expression, "Con dolcezza", meaning "with sweetness".
My college roommate was a black woman, a top student in chemistry, with a perfectly normal name (Joy Carole), but when she applied to Harvard, they treated her like she came from Zimbabwe. "Dear Third World Student, To help you determine whether the Harvard environment is consistent with your native culture, we are inviting you to a special Third World Weekend."
She was PISSED! My response was, "Look, Joy, they noticed you're from Houston!" (private joke ...) She went to UC-San Francisco, full scholarship, only out of state medical student they accepted that year.
Even better is the hyphenated name. Like right now you have Johnnie Robert Jones-Smith. So Johnnie marries Mary Johnson-Jones. Their child will be - what? - Susie Jones-Smith-Johnson-Jones?
Just can't wait! :)
I understood your point and I think it's a valid one. I don't understand the abrupt and overly-sensitive reply you received.
What's wrong with the last one? It's just a feminine version of Michael.
Alisyn Camerota
I've never heard that one. Balqis? We had threeboys and one 11 year old girl, so when we gave birth to our fifth child (a girl) her daddy said, "We'll treat her just like the queen of Sheba!"
We looked up whatever information we could find and came up with Makeda or Maqueda.
http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/sheba.html
I began noticing at least 30 years ago that lots of performers esp. from the NYC area, in touring shows playing other parts of the country, would list their names in the show's program as obviously made-up things like "Ms. Heaven" or other more normal names but featuring "distinctive" spellings like "Constanz","Bettye", or "Trudee". There were so many of them, and they were so various, I knew it was a trend.
But this was before all the "-eishas" and "-niqua"s". Looking at some of the names cited in this article you just KNOW these are not African names===they have about as much to do with African culture as Kwanzaa does with American Black culture. But look all the apostrophes and
"q"s that appear in the names and they can't help but remind you of the names we've been deluged with for the last 5 years----ARAB names, MUSLIM names. But not quite all the way there, more like halfway there. I'[m not suggesting they are Muslim, or are sympathetic, just that some partly subconscious process may be going on in the selection of these names. There are enough American blacks who have already taken on real Islamic names---blacks have been casting about for a non-American, non-assimilable identity for decades, and the reasons are not hard to see.
But gone are the days , just to complete the circle, of a mother naming a boy Cassius Marcellusv , and NOT having him change it 20 some years later to Muhammad Ali.
I proudly named my firstborn -- JOE.
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