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Roses and Cellar Doors: Word Names. All of Them. (girls)

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Roses and Cellar Doors. A collection of name lists, musings, and miscellany. Celebrity Baby Name Generator. Thursday, April 17, 2014. Word Names. All of Them. (girls). Okay, definitely not all. Of them. But by comparing the full SSA list to a dictionary text-file, I was able pull out all the word-names used in 2012. Some are quite lovely and unexpected! Others.I'll leave that up to you. ;). And yes, some are "creative" respellings that aren't pronounced like the dictionary word. Blame the parents. Hopefu...

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Roses and Cellar Doors: Son of a---!

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Roses and Cellar Doors. A collection of name lists, musings, and miscellany. Celebrity Baby Name Generator. Thursday, August 6, 2015. Son of a- -! I blame Alison and Madison. Despite "son" written straight out, many -son names are now trendy on girls. And while most of course mean "son of ", not all. Do, and I set out to find them. EE-son, [Ancient] Greek). AL-is-on, English)- from French, diminutive of Alice. Another form is Alson. SHAHN-sohn, French [surname])- "singer". Norwegian form is Maisen. Are T...

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Roses and Cellar Doors: German

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Roses and Cellar Doors. A collection of name lists, musings, and miscellany. Celebrity Baby Name Generator. German is tricksy. It almost. Looks like English, or should I say, English almost looks like German. It's a bit more "exaggerated" than English, but most of the letters make the same sounds. Consonants, if different from English:. B: usually like English 'b'- "boy"; but like English 'p' if before 's' or 't'- "apt". C: usually hard- "cat"; but like English 'ts' if before 'e', 'i', or 'ä'. I: short i...

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Roses and Cellar Doors: No Alternates Allowed! (girls, 2013)

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Roses and Cellar Doors. A collection of name lists, musings, and miscellany. Celebrity Baby Name Generator. Friday, August 1, 2014. I can't guarantee all these names are immune from " um, how do you spell that? But they at least have no spelling variants currently in use. Well, none that were given to 5 or more girls, anyway). Top 1000 only, from most to least common). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Bi-cultural Names: Spanish/English (boys). Usual Name, Unexpected Nickname- Alexander. Big A, little a.

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Roses and Cellar Doors: The Other Fairy Tales

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Roses and Cellar Doors. A collection of name lists, musings, and miscellany. Celebrity Baby Name Generator. Monday, August 10, 2015. The Other Fairy Tales. Before books and movies and urban legends, there were fairy tales. Many were, of course, adapted to the new mediums, but for some reason, others just never caught on in the modern world. And so, just because, here are some fairy tale names you've probably never heard of. :). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Bi-cultural Names: Spanish/English (boys).

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Roses and Cellar Doors: "Known but Not Common"

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Roses and Cellar Doors. A collection of name lists, musings, and miscellany. Celebrity Baby Name Generator. Thursday, December 20, 2012. Known but Not Common". But, of course, I have to try anyway, so here are names that have continuously been in the US top 1000 for the past 80 years, but have never broken the top 100 (yet! Asterisks indicate names that are more popular now than they've ever been). As of 2015, Elias is now in the SSA Top 100]. As of 2014, Lincoln is now in the SSA Top 100]. Hopefully you...

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Roses and Cellar Doors: Usual Name, Unexpected Nickname--Alexander

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Roses and Cellar Doors. A collection of name lists, musings, and miscellany. Celebrity Baby Name Generator. Sunday, April 22, 2012. Usual Name, Unexpected Nickname- Alexander. For such a long time, Alex. Was the favored nickname for Alexander. But in recent years, you're just as likely to hear Xander. Thanks to Alexander the Great, his name spread throughout Europe and the Middle East, and while the variants of Alexander. All bear strong resemblance to the original ( Eskandar, Alistair, Oleksander. Usual...

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Roses and Cellar Doors: Bi-cultural Names: Spanish/English (boys)

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Roses and Cellar Doors. A collection of name lists, musings, and miscellany. Celebrity Baby Name Generator. Thursday, April 12, 2012. Bi-cultural Names: Spanish/English (boys). Quite often on message boards I see people needing names that work in English, as well as in another language. Spanish is by far the most common, but occasionally other languages pop up too. So, here goes- the first in a series of (traditional) bi-cultural names. Spelled the same, but with slight pronunciation difference:. English...

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Roses and Cellar Doors: French

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Roses and Cellar Doors. A collection of name lists, musings, and miscellany. Celebrity Baby Name Generator. French, like English, has a lot of rules and exceptions. It's probably one of the more difficult languages for English speakers to pronounce, simply because it uses some sounds that English doesn't have, and many letters can be silent. If you never plan on learning French, these charts will do you fine. Consonants (where different from English):. Ç: like soft English 's' ("soft"). I: like in "ski".