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female and african american. need to know everything about monee and latorre if possible for a english essay
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One origin of "Monee" is as an Ottawa Indian version of the French name Marie. The Ottawas, living in the early 1800's around the US side of the Great Lakes, had no "r" sound in their language, so Marie => Monee (pronounced Mah-nee). The town of Monee, Illinois, south of Chicago, is named for a woman with this name and name origin.
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African American parents have a proud tradition of inventiveness in naming their children - they leave the rest of the nation standing! But then it's a problem deciding what, if anything, the names they chose mean. Probably in many cases they don't - they've just got a fashionable, fun sound to them which, I suppose, could give the message: I want my child to be stylish, unusual and light-hearted.
Having said that, Monee sounds and looks uncomfortably like the stuff we pay our bills with. Let's assume it's a variation of Monique instead! (I have a niece named Monique and known in the family as Neekie. But we all have our skeletons ...)
Latorre is probably easier - a lot of black parents like names starting with La- for little girls; it's the French word for when the word following is feminine. And the -torre element could quite easily be from Victoria (like the more usual Tori). So, a winner who's all girl!
Having said that, Monee sounds and looks uncomfortably like the stuff we pay our bills with. Let's assume it's a variation of Monique instead! (I have a niece named Monique and known in the family as Neekie. But we all have our skeletons ...)
Latorre is probably easier - a lot of black parents like names starting with La- for little girls; it's the French word for when the word following is feminine. And the -torre element could quite easily be from Victoria (like the more usual Tori). So, a winner who's all girl!
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