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I don't think I've ever played this before, so if it's supposed to be just a one word answer, I apologize. :)

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Adah - the Bible
Amity - Amityville horror
Anice / Annis - onions :b
Apphia - apnea or atrophy
Aquinnah - Michael J. Fox (this is the name of his DD)
Aria - opera
Belrose - roses
Bianca - soap opera (I think there were/are characters named Bianca on a couple of soaps)
Cadence - a tacky name, lol
Candace - my sister
Cassia - a plant (maybe I'm thinking of an acacia tree?)
Celeste - the heavens
Celestia - a fortune teller
Charlotte - Jane Austen
Charmaine - a mean girl I knew in
Charmian - Charmin TP
Chaya - jews
Chloë - a cute but stuck up little girl
Constance - patience
Constancy - a secretary
Cora - Cora Beth from "The Waltons"
Coralie - Coral from "The Real World"
Corisande - coriander
Calliope - a crazy character that was on "Days of Our Lives" many years ago
Daphne - character from "Queer As Folk" (...I'm beginning to realize I watch way too much tv, lol)
Delia - a little girl I know
Elaina - Elena misspelled
Elise - an anagram of my grandmother's name (Elsie)
Emmaline - a German child
Evangeline - the character in "Nanny McPhee" :)
Evelyn - a teacher I once knew
Felicia - Phylicia Rashad
Felicity - the show that was on the WB
Gabriella - I hope she's called Ella :b
Genevieve - Genevieve Bujold, and therefore the French pronunciation
Genevra - Ginevra or Geneva?
Gloria - character on "All in The Family"
Gloriana - a little girl I know
Guinevere - Arthurian times
Gwendolen - Gwen on "As the World Turns"
Gwyneth - Paltrow
Gwynne - Fancy talk for Gwen (lol)
Iris - the movie starring Kate Winslet
Irit - this site, because this is the only place I've ever heard/seen it (but I do think it's lovely)
Ivah - the Bible
Jacoba - makes me think of Jacob, a name I loathe (for its sound and overuse)
Jeanna - fancy-talk for Gina
Jessamyn - A wonderful alternative to either Jessica or Jasmine
Kayla - didn't this go out of style in the 1990s
Keturah - a girl with this name would be very hip & cool, imo
Kyrie - trying too hard (if prn. keer-ee-ay)
Laurel - MUCH better than Lauren
Lenore - hard-nosed but very smart woman
Lila - sophisticated
Liliola - gladiolas
Lilith - Frasier's wife
Lillian - the one on this site :)
Lola - a dog I used to dog-site for
Lydian - Lydia with an -n at the end
Lyrica - Lyric with an -a at the end
Mahalia - Mahalia Jackson, the singer
Maribel - My friend, Rosabel
Mira - Isn't this also the Spanish word for "look" (or something like that)?
Mirabelle - Annabelle/cow
Mirabilis - say what??
Mirella - pretty Spanish girl
Miriam - the Bible
Moriah - Mt. Moriah
Moselle - just an unattractive sounding name :-/
Mosera - um, this too
Moza - " "
Ophelia - Shakespeare
Orianna - a toddler I know (Oriana Celeste)
Pearl - white
Peninnah - an actress that was on the show "Sister Kate"
Phoebe - from "Friends"
Priscilla - Presley
Prudence - "Charmed"
Quinna - Aquinnah's nn
Rhoda - Mary Tyler Moore's friend
Rosabel - I have a friend by this name
Rosalie - a name I adore
Rosalinde - a name I like with an extra -e on the end
Rosalyn - There are other Rose- names I like so much more
Rosamund - I always thought this was pronounced Roze-ah-mund :b
Saffronia - a frilly Saffron
Sabrina - the Teenage Witch, of course!
Sapphira - sounds kinda Witch-y, too
Selah - the end of a prayer/psalm in the Bible
Siana - Shawna? Shanna? Sienna?
Sidra - Siddhartha
Sophronia - a name I recently discovered and like, even though it's a bit on the frilly side for me
Sylvia - Brown
Tirzah - a lovely name
Tova - doves
Valaida - Vada from "My Girl"
Valkyrie - vampires
Valora - Valour
Vanessa - a mean girl I knew in high school
Vania - Uncle Vanya (I think this is a book/movie)
Vashti - I've never known a Vashti, but I knew a Lakshmi, and this name reminds me of her :b
Veronica - comics
Vittoria - pizza (um, I don't know why :-/)
Vivienne - Rosie & Kelli O'Donnell's daughter
Winona - Ryder
Yessenia - a Spanish tv-novella-sounding name

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~Heather~
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