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in reply to a message by Lillian
There are no words for how much I love Jedidiah Hawking, honestly. I'd also recommend the nn Jed, which I found utterly awful before I read Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville. You might consider picking it up, because it's really great--it goes back and forth between the POVs of teenagers Marina (Yolen) and Jed (Bruce), who are brought by their parents to a hilltop in the wilderness to await the end of the world with the rest of their cult. It's amazing, and it's one of the reasons I've grown fond of Jedidiah.
Of your other names, I like/love:
Summer
Mercy
Evangeline
Mercy Evangeline AND Mercy Nightingale
Veronica Bronte
Benedict
Sawyer Benedict
Luke Whittaker
You might consider Scirocco as a never-ever-but-awesome name for Socorro's twin brother. ;) It's pronunced shir-AH-koh or thereabouts, and it's a word for a Mediterranean wind (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/sirocco -- "scirocco" is a variant spelling that I like better).
Array
Always remember the Fitz family motto: Believe in yourself, believe in others, and work like hell.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
Of your other names, I like/love:
Summer
Mercy
Evangeline
Mercy Evangeline AND Mercy Nightingale
Veronica Bronte
Benedict
Sawyer Benedict
Luke Whittaker
You might consider Scirocco as a never-ever-but-awesome name for Socorro's twin brother. ;) It's pronunced shir-AH-koh or thereabouts, and it's a word for a Mediterranean wind (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/sirocco -- "scirocco" is a variant spelling that I like better).
Array
Always remember the Fitz family motto: Believe in yourself, believe in others, and work like hell.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
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Array honey, have I ever mentioned how you totally slay me?!
Because I know Sirocco quite well, thank you, and yes indeed, I have always secretly GP'd on twinnies Socorro and Sirocco! We're not even going to quibble about that C, it so doesn't even matter. What matters is your mind-reading capacity even at a distance. You just astound me, baby, really. In your honor and on your sole say-so I will go straight out and find this book Armageddon Summer.
You rock out loud, did I mention?
Are you sure you're only eighteen? I may one day ask you to confidentially snailmail me your birth certificate. I wasn't kidding the other day when I said I hope I grow up to be as cool as you...
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
Because I know Sirocco quite well, thank you, and yes indeed, I have always secretly GP'd on twinnies Socorro and Sirocco! We're not even going to quibble about that C, it so doesn't even matter. What matters is your mind-reading capacity even at a distance. You just astound me, baby, really. In your honor and on your sole say-so I will go straight out and find this book Armageddon Summer.
You rock out loud, did I mention?
Are you sure you're only eighteen? I may one day ask you to confidentially snailmail me your birth certificate. I wasn't kidding the other day when I said I hope I grow up to be as cool as you...
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
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Wow--no one I've met has ever heard of Scirocco or Sirocco before. :D (The reason I prefer it with the extra C is because then it gets a good "SH" noise at the beginning, and that's also the way I first heard it--in the lyrics of a song describing a woman as "a scirocco on the sand.") This is very exciting, mon amie.
And if you read it and like it, you'll be the first person I've converted to Armageddon Summer. It's hard to resist it, IMO--Yolen and Coville are both fantastic writers, and together they're even better. (If you haven't read Jane Yolen's Briar Rose, you're seriously missing out on some fascinating Holocaust fiction.)
Array (will be nineteen in July--so she isn't exactly eighteen, lol)
Always remember the Fitz family motto: Believe in yourself, believe in others, and work like hell.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
And if you read it and like it, you'll be the first person I've converted to Armageddon Summer. It's hard to resist it, IMO--Yolen and Coville are both fantastic writers, and together they're even better. (If you haven't read Jane Yolen's Briar Rose, you're seriously missing out on some fascinating Holocaust fiction.)
Array (will be nineteen in July--so she isn't exactly eighteen, lol)
Always remember the Fitz family motto: Believe in yourself, believe in others, and work like hell.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
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oops, double post, ignore
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
This message was edited 5/25/2006, 4:20 PM
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Somebody somewhere's heard of it
Volkswagon has a car named Scirocco. This link is to the newest incarnation of it, but VW has had it for as long as 30 years.
http://www.germancarblog.com/2006/05/vw-scirocco-first-real-picture.html
Sadly, I cannot remember, but this may have been my first exposure to the idea of a scirocco, in the form of a VW! Though I really thought I was the first person to think of it as a boys' name! Ah, well, all geniuses must arrive at some of the same thoughts eventually, I suppose...
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
Volkswagon has a car named Scirocco. This link is to the newest incarnation of it, but VW has had it for as long as 30 years.
http://www.germancarblog.com/2006/05/vw-scirocco-first-real-picture.html
Sadly, I cannot remember, but this may have been my first exposure to the idea of a scirocco, in the form of a VW! Though I really thought I was the first person to think of it as a boys' name! Ah, well, all geniuses must arrive at some of the same thoughts eventually, I suppose...
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
This message was edited 5/25/2006, 4:19 PM
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And I should also mention
that yes, I also love the nn Jed, which, truth to tell, would probably be the one to come out of my mouth most often, because a nn at my house is typically just the most-emphasized syllable of the name, like Soph for Sophie or Dave for David or Axe for Alexander.
Or Joon for Juniper!
And as for Jedidiah, I also love the very similar name Jebediah, nn Jeb, though I cannot stand that it has become linked to what's-his-ass's little brother, whose name is not even Jebediah, that's the acronym of his initials, dammit...
And I have long thought that the obvious nn for Sirocco (or Scirocco, as you prefer, though I say it "sh-" either way, and will point out Sirocco makes a better alphabetic match for Socorro) would be Rocco, which itself would even tend to become Rocky. (And come to think of it, Socorro would try to become Corri, but I wouldn't let it! Go go Coco!)
KWIM?
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
that yes, I also love the nn Jed, which, truth to tell, would probably be the one to come out of my mouth most often, because a nn at my house is typically just the most-emphasized syllable of the name, like Soph for Sophie or Dave for David or Axe for Alexander.
Or Joon for Juniper!
And as for Jedidiah, I also love the very similar name Jebediah, nn Jeb, though I cannot stand that it has become linked to what's-his-ass's little brother, whose name is not even Jebediah, that's the acronym of his initials, dammit...
And I have long thought that the obvious nn for Sirocco (or Scirocco, as you prefer, though I say it "sh-" either way, and will point out Sirocco makes a better alphabetic match for Socorro) would be Rocco, which itself would even tend to become Rocky. (And come to think of it, Socorro would try to become Corri, but I wouldn't let it! Go go Coco!)
KWIM?
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
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