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Help[Opinions] Re: Benedict Scott and Summer Nightingale, of course :-) /nt
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You don't think Soraya would be prettier than Summer?
In my family we say suh-RAY-uh. ;)
In my family we say suh-RAY-uh. ;)
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Summer is a very long-held favorite, chosen long ago, not only simply for its own charms (which in my mind are considerable), but also specifically to match both our surname (on my profile) and my other girls' names (as far as being an S name, basically, which, yes, Soraya would also do). Among other factors, one of the things I like about Summer is that it does not end in A, as over half of female names do. I only wanted to have one name among my daughters that starts with S and ends in A; that one name turned out to be Sophia. (Sophia's second mn is Seraphina, yes, but we don't call her by it; I am referring specifically to those names by which we call the girls.)
If Gideon had been a girl she would have been Summer Siena (for St. Catherine of Siena, who not only is my personal patroness but also a patroness of nurses in general, and who shares my mother's name).
Since that time, seeing several little Siena / Sienna / Cianna / etc's get born around me, I decided against it, and turned instead to Nightingale, for Florence, the Lady with the Lamp.
Soraya is very pretty, and I do like it very much; but I prefer an admittedly apostate spelling, Saraia, as a blending, or crossbreed, as it were, between Soraya and Sarai.
:-)
If Gideon had been a girl she would have been Summer Siena (for St. Catherine of Siena, who not only is my personal patroness but also a patroness of nurses in general, and who shares my mother's name).
Since that time, seeing several little Siena / Sienna / Cianna / etc's get born around me, I decided against it, and turned instead to Nightingale, for Florence, the Lady with the Lamp.
Soraya is very pretty, and I do like it very much; but I prefer an admittedly apostate spelling, Saraia, as a blending, or crossbreed, as it were, between Soraya and Sarai.
:-)
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She was; I admire her very much. She is my patroness because my birthday is on her feastday; it was after I decided to become a nurse that I fully realized her influence in my life. :-)
Also, completely OT, I meant to tell you the other day in the Lounge that I think Sweet Apple itself (which you said is the meaning of "glukumalon") would make a very endearing posting name, or even a phrase name generally.
I am a proponent of using those phrases in one's native language to which one is attracted in another. For example I sometimes hear people (here and IRL) remark on Native American names meaning this or that, and how beautiful, and isn't that a charming name, but would never dream of naming a child Running Wolf or White Deer in English, Heaven forbid (this subject leads me to tangents about Chinese tattoos too). When I read what you said about glukumalon it just struck me as absolutely lovely.
That said, you probably should take my opinion with a grain of salt since I like the name Apple on its own, and my opinion there is definitely the minority one. ;-)
Also, completely OT, I meant to tell you the other day in the Lounge that I think Sweet Apple itself (which you said is the meaning of "glukumalon") would make a very endearing posting name, or even a phrase name generally.
I am a proponent of using those phrases in one's native language to which one is attracted in another. For example I sometimes hear people (here and IRL) remark on Native American names meaning this or that, and how beautiful, and isn't that a charming name, but would never dream of naming a child Running Wolf or White Deer in English, Heaven forbid (this subject leads me to tangents about Chinese tattoos too). When I read what you said about glukumalon it just struck me as absolutely lovely.
That said, you probably should take my opinion with a grain of salt since I like the name Apple on its own, and my opinion there is definitely the minority one. ;-)
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