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they are still forms of the same name.
I've told this story a million times on here, but oh well
I have a friend named John IV "Jack". So his dad is also named John. His mom is named Janet, and his brother is named Sean.
And one day I pointed this out to him, just like "Jack, everyone in your family is named John!
Because Sean is the Irish form of John. [And Shane is another form of Sean], and Janet is a feminine of John.
I've told this story a million times on here, but oh well
I have a friend named John IV "Jack". So his dad is also named John. His mom is named Janet, and his brother is named Sean.
And one day I pointed this out to him, just like "Jack, everyone in your family is named John!
Because Sean is the Irish form of John. [And Shane is another form of Sean], and Janet is a feminine of John.
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Apparently his mom didn't know
He had always been told that John was an Irish name, and one day I came along and was talking about names and he asked what his meant and I mentioned that Sean was the Irish form and he said "Oh that's my brothers name".
He eventually asked his mom and she said "Well they sound different to me".
@@ [Obviously they couldn't help the John / Janet thing though].
Also I have a friend named Evan John. He never told me his middle name, but it was called when we graduated, so after I came over and said "Evan, you never told me your name was John John."
I don't totally mind if Dad is one form of John and son is another form... if the parents know what they're doing, it might even be sort of clever.
And I understood the last sentence. :D
He had always been told that John was an Irish name, and one day I came along and was talking about names and he asked what his meant and I mentioned that Sean was the Irish form and he said "Oh that's my brothers name".
He eventually asked his mom and she said "Well they sound different to me".
@@ [Obviously they couldn't help the John / Janet thing though].
Also I have a friend named Evan John. He never told me his middle name, but it was called when we graduated, so after I came over and said "Evan, you never told me your name was John John."
I don't totally mind if Dad is one form of John and son is another form... if the parents know what they're doing, it might even be sort of clever.
And I understood the last sentence. :D
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This happened in my family, also, although perhaps not so obviously. My name is Janice, which is a variation of Jane, which is the feminine form of John. I have a half brother named John...we have the same mother, but different fathers. So to make matters worse, John was named after his father, who was my mother's first husband...her first husband's name was also John. So my mother and father named me the feminine form of her first husband's name! Obviously, non-namenerds do not stop to think of these things. I know it would have occurred to me, and I'm not even as much of a namenerd as most of the people here.
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