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Actually, the Under 19 Women's World Cup. Which I'm delighted about: viva women's sport in general. Under 19 players from most cricketing countries are competing, and yesterday South Africa played Nigeria. One does not usually associate Nigeria with cricket, and their team were sadly outclassed; however, their given names are winners. In no particular order they are
Peculiar
Piety (the sources are divided: she might be Piety Lucky or Lucky Piety)
Lilian
Christabel
Victory
Anointed
Deborah
Omosigho
Kehinde
Shola
Peace
I find the mixture of traditional names, word names and dated English names fascinating. On a sad note, poor Victory was out without scoring.
Peculiar
Piety (the sources are divided: she might be Piety Lucky or Lucky Piety)
Lilian
Christabel
Victory
Anointed
Deborah
Omosigho
Kehinde
Shola
Peace
I find the mixture of traditional names, word names and dated English names fascinating. On a sad note, poor Victory was out without scoring.
This message was edited 1/23/2025, 1:20 AM
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I love the names Deborah, Shola, and Christabel. Please forgive me for chuckling at Victory's loss; I'm not laughing at her loss, just the contradiction of her name's meaning and losing. I'm sure she'd completely smoke me in a game of cricket, without a doubt!
What a fascinating assortment indeed! There's something rather Victorian about them all. Maybe because they all feel very intense and serious.
I love Christabel and Lilian.
Peculiar??
Peculiar??
My guess is that if people learn English, or any other language of course, as a second language, they might encounter a word like 'unique' and find out its meaning; then if they encounter 'peculiar', especially in 19th-century English and earlier, and ask its meaning, some helpful person might well say 'Well, it's rather like "unique"' and be accurate enough. But if the difference was not explained, the result could easily be a beautiful, athletic, intelligent, pleasant daughter with an unfairly bizarre name among English speakers. In her home environment, it probably doesn't raise an eyebrow.
I adore Christabel.