...and
Constantine too.
*quietly adds
Constantine to PNL*
..:D
..I know a girl who wants to name her daughter Konstantine. It drives me insane. She gets really defensive every time I try to talk her out of the K or out of the girliness.
Yes, the -er -or- ar sounds are quite out of fashion today. I am going to do a quick project and see if I can ctrl+F ANY er's in the top 500 that don't close of occupational surnames. Here goes:
..Okay also on the ends of names like
Christopher. Emphasized ones, is what I mean.
Okay here goes:
Jeremiah, which I do not count because it is
Jair, and long a is so popular. besides it's not emphasized
Ditto
Eric
157
Fernando I almost count
Same 197
Sergio218
Roberto (but these are all long A's!)
Okay to be fair there aren't a LOT of er- emphasized syllabels altogether. Still - where are all the Ernestines? I want some Ernestines!
Do not worry, I
will use
Minerva and you will all know. :D
The funny thing about
Joan of Arc was that her name was actually
Jeanne. I wonder sometimes why we decided to call her
Joan instead of
Jane or
Joanna.
LOL, Corny? Really? Well that is fine for him.
Neil seems more intuitive for me. The cor- sound has grown on me a LOT after I began trying to work in honoring a
Cory into my names. (
Cory is still really dreadful though.) I know a
Cornelius too, except I haven't seen him in years, I don't know if he got out of middle school.
He just used his whole name.