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What does the name Ashley mean
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sorry if this is a repeat post. I mispelled the name initially it's actually spelled schouanna the woman is 31 caucasian (and posibbly american indian) she told me in fact she thought the name was of indian origin but was unsure.
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Joanna?
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Agree
I think that the relation between Shoana and Joanna is clear.
1) Shoana seems an attempt to Anglicization of some variants of Joanna with this exact sound (the Galician Xoana, for example), just as Schoana is cited in many German sites and boards to suggest this pronunciation (German SCH is equal as English SH):
"Xoana* (*sprich Schoana, galizisch für Johanna)" and "Xoana* (*spoken Shoa:na:, galician for Joan)" (http://www.maaki-bears.de/newbears_Xoana.html)
"Ich heiße: Joana (sprich Schoana)" (http://www.beepworld.de/cgi-bin/forum_de/archive/t-29962.html)
"Xoana (Schoana) gallego" (http://hfsclub.de/cgi-bin/HFSDB/forum.cgi?showid=13731&fid=7)
In many languages, the forms of Joanna have this SH sound: Scottish, Welsh, Irish... And, in English, the Anglicizations of these forms often has a SH: Shana, Shania, Shauna, etc.
2) Or it can be, simply, a direct variation of Joanna based in the voicelessness of a voiced phoneme, because the SH sound in English is the voiceless phoneme correspondent to the J sound in English (which is voiced), and the voicelessness phenomenon of voiced phonemes —as mispronunciation or not, it depends of the case— is usual in languages which have pairs of phonemes voiced and voiceless ([z] and [s], e.g.). In Catalan, for example, Joana (with the voiced sound) is sometimes mispronounced as Xoana (in the social dialect called "xava", basically).
Lumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com
I think that the relation between Shoana and Joanna is clear.
1) Shoana seems an attempt to Anglicization of some variants of Joanna with this exact sound (the Galician Xoana, for example), just as Schoana is cited in many German sites and boards to suggest this pronunciation (German SCH is equal as English SH):
"Xoana* (*sprich Schoana, galizisch für Johanna)" and "Xoana* (*spoken Shoa:na:, galician for Joan)" (http://www.maaki-bears.de/newbears_Xoana.html)
"Ich heiße: Joana (sprich Schoana)" (http://www.beepworld.de/cgi-bin/forum_de/archive/t-29962.html)
"Xoana (Schoana) gallego" (http://hfsclub.de/cgi-bin/HFSDB/forum.cgi?showid=13731&fid=7)
In many languages, the forms of Joanna have this SH sound: Scottish, Welsh, Irish... And, in English, the Anglicizations of these forms often has a SH: Shana, Shania, Shauna, etc.
2) Or it can be, simply, a direct variation of Joanna based in the voicelessness of a voiced phoneme, because the SH sound in English is the voiceless phoneme correspondent to the J sound in English (which is voiced), and the voicelessness phenomenon of voiced phonemes —as mispronunciation or not, it depends of the case— is usual in languages which have pairs of phonemes voiced and voiceless ([z] and [s], e.g.). In Catalan, for example, Joana (with the voiced sound) is sometimes mispronounced as Xoana (in the social dialect called "xava", basically).
Lumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com
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i just wanted to say thanks for all the well thought out reply's, I and schouanna are appreciative
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Sounds unikely to me, since it's close to shoah, ie the Jewish Holocaust.
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Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the lights
~J.K. Rowling
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Well, that all depends on how old the person with the name is, I'd guess. When did "shoah" become the common word for the holocaust in the Jewish community?
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