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HelpRe: Jacob & Alida
in reply to a message by Belphoebe
Jacob is too Old Testament to me; it's over-used where I live, but that doesn't get rid of the image of an old man in white robes and sandals, toiling up a desert dune and shaking his fist at everyone who doesn't agree with him! And I don't enjoy Jake either.
Alida happens every day where I live, but only in the Afrikaans community. Here, it's pronounced ahLIdah, with the middle syllable more like the word 'lid' than 'lead'. I quite like it, but not enough to use. If it were a family name, though, I'd use it as a mn without hesitation.
Alida happens every day where I live, but only in the Afrikaans community. Here, it's pronounced ahLIdah, with the middle syllable more like the word 'lid' than 'lead'. I quite like it, but not enough to use. If it were a family name, though, I'd use it as a mn without hesitation.
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