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[Facts] Re: Need help remembering a name

by Daividh (guest)

3/19/2001, 3:49 PM

The name is "Millicent" and I'm ASTOUNDED it's not on here. In its nickname form "Millie", it was even the name of Geo. and Barbara Bush's dog!

One site I found sez it's French and means "of a thousand saints".

HEY, MR. MIKE! YA GOTTA ADD THIS ONE!

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- Andrea (guest) +6

3/19/2001, 5:02 PM

Hi,

I was wondering how you pronounce your name, Davidh.

Thanks,

Andrea

- Daividh (guest) +5

3/19/2001, 6:54 PM

Technically it's very similar to "davey" but in the area of eastern Scotland my family came from, my grandfather said it was more often pronounced "day-vit" (with the "t" sound, not a "d").

When I was growing up, hearing "davey" meant all was cool, while
"day-vit" meant either trouble or it was my grandfather talking. However, the second version fits a middle-aged guy better, in my opinion. I also answer to Dave, which I use at work.

- Andrea (guest)

3/21/2001, 4:58 AM

Thank you, Daividh

- Ania (guest) +2

3/20/2001, 11:27 AM

Cool! You're from Scotland? So am I!

- Daividh (guest) +1

3/20/2001, 5:47 PM

Actually, I was born here altho my dad was still a Brit citizen (from Dundee)and mom was a (naturalized) Irish lass. I still have a lot of relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins) in both Angus and Fife.

We lived in a comfortingly blue-collar 3-generation Celtic household when I was younger, filled with thick accents, running family feuds, and the stink of blood sausage. Life was good.

- Daividh (guest)

3/20/2001, 5:51 PM

That was before my dad's career-enhancing move away from our cultural base when I was 10. Almost overnight, we became transformed into Average Americans (aka Beaver Cleaverdom). How my parents carried off this masquerade, I'll never figure out.

- Andrea (guest)

3/19/2001, 8:58 PM

Thanks very much, Davidh.

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