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Week 6 Favorite Name
The topic of names is one of my favorites. I wrote a whole
blog post early on about the meaning of names.
Place Names
I’ve been reading in the Book of Mormon where Lehi names a
river after his oldest son, and a valley after his second oldest son, and when
Ishmael the father of another family dies, he names the place Nahom which means
in Hebrew “consolation” from the verb naham, “be sorry, console oneself.”
Another place was named Shazer meaning twisting, intertwining.
My Family Favorite Names
So with this fascination for names how can I pick one? My
grandmother is Rosa Etta Sarepta Hicks Utterback, her brother was Elijah Japeth
Shannon Hicks. This last one for years sent me on a wild goose chase thinking
Shannon was the maiden surname of his grandmother. It wasn’t. So, never guess
and suppose something. Always get the proof. My friend’s uncle has a middle
name of Fields and he’s never found another Field in his genealogy. I knew a
childhood friend named Drake. He was named after the doctor that delivered him.
So you just never know.
Add Foreign Names for Hilarity
When we lived in Guadalajara, Mexico our first house was on
a street named J. J. Martinez Aguirre. It is pronounced in Spanish which sounds
like “hota hota Martinez Aquirrrrrr A.” I loved the way this felt in my mouth, so
it was fun to tell people where we lived in Chapalita. It was a beautiful home with
windows that opened like French doors filled with small beveled panes of glass
that cast rainbows on the walls when the sun would shine through. My husband
Bob had a favorite road name he liked. He would see it when he would drive from
Little Rock, Arkansas to Jackson, Mississippi. It was called Fortification
Road. Being the foreign language Geek that he was, he’d always think of this
word with an Irish ??? accent and it came out, “Fartification Road” and he’d
chuckle every time.
I guess adding a foreign language to a favorite names list
can really be interesting.
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