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I know India Love is from Northern Ireland and I very much doubt you'll see many names like the ones in the list there. I'm from England (everyone in my year at school was White British) and the strangest name I ever encountered at school was Leysa - a creative spelling of Lisa. Tia was unusual at the time but quite popular now. Otherwise everybody had boring (to me) names like Sarah, Helen, Laura, Nicola, Jennifer etc for the girls and James, Richard, Michael, Christopher and Matthew etc for boys. I didn't post under the OP but those names are very weird to me.
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I made a post the other day about Lesya after I came across it in a linguistics article I was reading (she was one of the authors), and I believe it's a diminutive of Olesya and maybe a couple of other Russian names rather than a creative form of Lisa. Just thought you might be interested to know :)
I made a post the other day about Lesya after I came across it in a linguistics article I was reading (she was one of the authors), and I believe it's a diminutive of Olesya and maybe a couple of other Russian names rather than a creative form of Lisa. Just thought you might be interested to know :)
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I saw your post and nearly replied but didn't have time. The girl in my class was Leysa not Lesya and she did pronounce it Lisa, much to everyone's confusion! Teachers thought it was prn Laysa.
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Oh!
My brain did not want that 'y' before the 's' for some reason. That is a very understandably confusing pronunciation.
My brain did not want that 'y' before the 's' for some reason. That is a very understandably confusing pronunciation.
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Ditto
Those names are very weird to me too - at my school everyone is named stuff like Jessica, Charlotte, Rachel, Rebecca, Isabelle, Sarah, etc. When I've talked to my friends about names they've all found stuff like Summer and Landon really weird, so these names are on a whole other level!
Those names are very weird to me too - at my school everyone is named stuff like Jessica, Charlotte, Rachel, Rebecca, Isabelle, Sarah, etc. When I've talked to my friends about names they've all found stuff like Summer and Landon really weird, so these names are on a whole other level!
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