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So they're naming her after a musical instrument.

by Siri (guest)

3/12/2005, 1:57 PM

in reply to a message by Miranda

I'm half tempted to tell them....but then they'd decide to NOT use it, and they'd be back at the drawing board.

I think I'll keep my mouth shut.

Siri

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- Anneza (guest) +1

3/14/2005, 4:11 AM

They could do worse. On Babycenter recently there was a couple seriously considering naming their daughter Amanda Lynn. Which, as some respondents pointed out, is also a kitchen slicing tool ...

- Miranda (Randee15)

3/14/2005, 1:26 PM

It's also a musical instrument

Only in that case it's spelled "mandolin". I got introduced to the instrument as a young kid in the hospital by a Golden Book retelling of "Rapunzel", wherein Rapunzel played the mandolin while getting her hair brushed by her foster-mother (better known as the witch).

Pictures of mandolins: http://snipurl.com/df8t.

Miranda
"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of diseased mind" -- Terry Pratchett

!!!!!!!!!! ← Maud, John, Alice, Peter, Emma, Edith, Lewis, Henry, Isabel, and Joseph

- crazygal (guest) +2

3/13/2005, 5:16 AM

yes, the name Lyra does originate from lyre but there is also a constellation of stars called Lyra so perhaps you could tell them that instead!

- Miranda (Randee15) +1

3/13/2005, 12:44 PM

... Didn't you read Siri's original post?

Miranda
"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of diseased mind" -- Terry Pratchett

!!!!!!!!!! ← Maud, John, Alice, Peter, Emma, Edith, Lewis, Henry, Isabel, and Joseph

- crazygal

3/18/2005, 3:33 AM

Lol, oops I didn't sorry!

- Miranda (Randee15) +3

3/12/2005, 2:40 PM

Lol. Hm, you might be interested...

In these. They're pictures of lyres, just so you know what the heck kind of instrument a lyre actually is: http://snipurl.com/de3k.

I love Google! :-D

Miranda
"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of diseased mind" -- Terry Pratchett

!!!!!!!!!! ← Maud, John, Alice, Peter, Emma, Edith, Lewis, Henry, Isabel, and Joseph

- Lauren B (guest) +2

3/13/2005, 1:54 AM

Lyra is also the main character in the His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman.

- Siri (guest)

3/14/2005, 10:04 AM

That's what she's being named after.

Each of their kids is named from a book.

Siri

- Anneza (guest)

3/13/2005, 10:37 PM

And when she meets Will, who's from our (version of the) world, he confuses her name with Laura and Lara. Another of the penalties of over-originality ...

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