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Lalage is one of my longstanding favorites; sadly, it rarely receives recognition, and when it does, it gets pilloried. Are there any Lalage admirers out there, or am I alone? For the record, I pronounce it like so: "LAH [the vowel sound in "bat"] - "luh" [the vowel sound in "but"] -- "jee" [as in "Gee whiz!]. Here's the pronunciation in IPA: ˈlælədʒiː

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I'm perhaps most charmed by the name's ties to ancient poetry and its modern incarnation as the genus of passerine birds known as trillers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalage_(bird)

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Here are some combos:

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Lalage Acantha
Lalage Adele
Lalage Amata
Lalage Antonia
Lalage Augusta
Lalage Aurelia
Lalage Aurore
Lalage Bertille
Lalage Bertrada
Lalage Brunhilde
Lalage Camellia
Lalage Camilla
Lalage Celestia
Lalage Clotilda / Clotilde
Lalage Constance / Constantia
Lalage Cordelia
Lalage Cornelia
Lalage Crescentia
Lalage Delphina / Delphine
Lalage Diana
Lalage Diantha
Lalage Edwina
Lalage Estella
Lalage Eudora
Lalage Euphrasia
Lalage Felicia
Lalage Fernande
Lalage Helene
Lalage Hortensia
Lalage Imelda
Lalage Ingrid
Lalage Letitia
Lalage Louisa
Lalage Lucilla
Lalage Lucretia
Lalage Mathilde / Matilda
Lalage Minerva
Lalage Miranda
Lalage Nevena
Lalage Odette
Lalage Odile
Lalage Olympia
Lalage Ophelia
Lalage Persis
Lalage Prunella
Lalage Renata
Lalage Rhoda
Lalage Roxana / Roxane
Lalage Sabina
Lalage Serena
Lalage Sibylla
Lalage Susanna
Lalage Teresa / Theresa
Lalage Verena
Lalage Zenaida
Lalage Zerelda

This message was edited 7/23/2020, 8:51 AM