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Eve's name, appearing in the Bible only five times, according to an article I just read.
I wonder how it is pronounced in Hebrew? As always, I do wish we still used original names though I understand why it is too much against the tide to do so. One site gives her name as HawwAh, but I can't find any reason for capitalizing the second 'a'. I like Hawwah over Eve because it sounds more ancient to my ear. It means something like 'giver of life' or 'mother of all life.'
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Alack Wordwind, I tried but everytime I say "Hawwah" an earworm reminds me of the Beethoven routine by John Belushi where his doting sisters would stand behind the deaf Beethoven and shout ... PLEASE LUDWIG! YOU MUST EAT! YOU HAVE BEEN SITTING AT THE PIANO FOR TWO DAYS. IF YOU DON'T GET UP FROM THE PIANO AND EAT YOU WILL DIE! PLEASE, LUDWIG, PLEASE DON'T DIE! A few moments pass and then Beethoven turns and looks up from the piano where he has been composing and smiles and says...Oh, hello, hawwahya?  Here though, is a neat Beethoven Christmas site that plays the most pleasant background music as you read about his life. http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Bio/BiographyLudwig.html
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I do wish we still used original names though I understand why it is too much against the tide to do so.
A child will woe betide
A name running agin the tide
As our own themilum has just made so [comically] evident:
Oh, hello, hawwahya?
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he most pleasant background music
I"m sure he loves that...
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in arabic her name is pronounced hawwah, as well. the second 'a' comes from the throat, so i suppose that the stress is on the second syllable. perhaps something of that sort is why the a is capatalized? of course, hebrew isn't all that similar to arabic...
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Bluefruitbowl: Your name conjures up as much fascination as your insightful post. I, for one, look forward to more of such beguiling fruit.
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actually, i've always thought of my username as meaning 'a fruit bowl that is blue' ^-^
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Hue got me there, bluefruitbowl.
Even so, just as a fluid takes the shape of its vessel, a plum takes the hue of its bowl.
And the fruits of our labor take the hue of our resolve.
The 'you' that we take as our name
Cannot take us to glory or shame
But it lets us aspire
And it gives us desire
To achieve the goals we proclaim.
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Hi bluefruitbowl welcome to Awad! Don't mind Plutarch, he speaks in rhymes as a blueblood speaks in french, that is, because he can speak well in rhymes and most of us can't (except Maverick). Please tell me Bluefruitbowl, do you represent the male or the female of our kind? Sometimes I get into trouble not knowing.  Welcome.
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he speaks in rhymes Themilum is too kind, bluefruitbowl, as most others are as well. He means I speak in rhymes without reason. Others speak more reason and less rhyme -- which means you will always have reason to visit here, if not rhyme and reason both.
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