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in reply to a message by Kate
There was a Lilias in a college course I took - Lil-ee-as.
As far as I know Lileas is merely a variant spelling. (Says so in the big Hanks and Hodge Oxford Book of Names)
It was originally a Scottish pet form of Elizabeth that evolved into an independent name and became identified with the lily.
Now, I wonder what would please her,
Charlotte, Julia, or Louisa?
Ann and Mary, they're too common;
Joan's too formal for a woman;
Jane's a prettier name beside;
But we had a Jane that died.
They would say, if 'twas Rebecca,
That she was a little Quaker.
From poem [1809] by Charles Lamb
As far as I know Lileas is merely a variant spelling. (Says so in the big Hanks and Hodge Oxford Book of Names)
It was originally a Scottish pet form of Elizabeth that evolved into an independent name and became identified with the lily.
Now, I wonder what would please her,
Charlotte, Julia, or Louisa?
Ann and Mary, they're too common;
Joan's too formal for a woman;
Jane's a prettier name beside;
But we had a Jane that died.
They would say, if 'twas Rebecca,
That she was a little Quaker.
From poem [1809] by Charles Lamb
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