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I can't seem to fall in love with Corinne. It's a good name and I like to see it, and I think if you want to call your daughter Corey you should name her Corrine and spell it Corrie. It's an iamb so it's a good middle name. But I don't love it.

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I do kind of love Joanna though. I tend to like -ana or -anna names well when it's not name+anna. I like Joanna as an elaboration of Joan and Juliana as feminine of Julian. But I don't like Liliana or Mariana, which I regard as name+ana, and therefore superfluous. Yeah. Joanna's great, it's simple and pretty and sensible. Goes well with Laura and Caroline.

Well, if I hear the prn that's in the database, I cringe. :o/ I do know a Corinne who prns her name cor-IN, and since that's the prn of my own name, that's the prn I prefer.

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I'm personally ok w/Anna names (find them a bit boring, but they're all right, generally), but I much prefer Johanna to Joanna. I know, I know, there's not a whole lot of difference between the two...still, throwing that 'h' in there does something special to the name, imo. Jo is a fantastic nn.

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(edited for punctuation)

This message was edited 3/18/2008, 11:33 AM