Message: "Jennie was actually originally a nickname for Jane"

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[Opinions] Jennie was actually originally a nickname for Jane

by Anthroponomastics

11/7/2009, 1:08 PM

It's one of those nicknames sprouted out of the Middle Ages. Why we have Jennet, Jenna, Jennette, Jenny...none of them are actually Jennifer. Jennifer's the Cornish form of Guinevere!

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- Lily (guest) +1

11/7/2009, 1:39 PM

Couldn't she have had ancestors from there? I remember her saying that she named them after someone...well at least Benjamin.

- Anthroponomastics

11/7/2009, 1:59 PM

I'm pretty sure that Jennifer wasn't even widely used in Cornwall until very recently...I mean, Dingle Foot's sister was named Jennifer, but that was an exception, and even then that was later on than the series took place.

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