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Re: Alison / Allison

by queenv (guest)

8/6/2014, 5:35 PM

I don't like the name, but I prefer the Alison spelling because it seems less like a surname.

Now that I think of it, maybe that's one reason I far prefer my name the way I spell it, Janice, to Janis. Janis is a surname.

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- RoxStar +1

8/7/2014, 6:22 AM

it is?

I never saw Janis as a surname. Janos, yes, it's Jesse Ventura's real surname. I actually did see a character in a book with the last name Janice.
Janis just looks too much like phonetic spelling.

- queenv

8/7/2014, 6:31 AM

There is a musician and actor named Conrad Janis. I looked it up, and that was the surname he was born with, not an assumed name. Because I was aware of this as his surname, I've occasionally looked to see if there is anyone with the surname Janis in the phone book and I've found a few. Here's a page about the Janis surname:

http://www.geni.com/surnames/janis

Not a very common surname, at least in the U.S, but a surname.

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