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"Elizabeth" in an Anglicized version of the Hebrew "Elisheva."
cool! So I could have been "Sheva", or maybe "Sheba"?
I know Mom told me that Bethel means "House of God", so I'm not surprised to find that a "beth" name with no "house" word in it is not strictly from the Hebrew.
Thanks for this, IP 
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Zed,
Thank you.
*blush*
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Glad to see you back again, Alimae. I hope we see a lot more of you on the board.
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"Laurence" means of or from laurel (the bay leaf tree). The derivative of my first name.
For this reason, I have always maintained that Laurence is correctly spelled with a 'u' and not a 'w' as is frequently seen.
Your thoughts?
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What on Earth?
Well I used that site to look up Roach(Which was going to be my user name but was taken)and got all sorts of definitions.
Like a native american hairdo,or some nautical term.But I finally found what it was supposed to mean-and an insulting definition.
roach
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. roach·es
1. The cockroach. 2. Slang The butt of a marijuana cigarette.
Ok, It was supposed to mean cockroach. But I am NOT a cigarrette,and I am NOT illegal!
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Welcome, Ms de Caffeine - may I say what a delightfully bright and unusual colour yellow you have chosen for your blog background? :) By the way, seeing your interest in Latin and spelling, are you aware of the great resource at Bartleby, where you can often find the family resemblances between Romance languages that derive from Latin - for example, common words we take for granted like cigarette? http://www.bartleby.com/61/46/C0354600.html
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Welcome to the madhouse Rainmaker and Roachie. Please do stick around!
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And welcome back yourown sweet self, cinnamon queen - didja get another compouter(sic) or fix the bug?
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Turns out it was Norton Personal Security that was keeping me from posting. A special thanks to Anu and the webmaster at wordsmith for pointing me in the right direction. [tiphat-e]
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What if I said my name was Antwan? Of course it's a phonetic variation of "Antoine". And how does that happen again? Did you "axe" the right person how it was spelled? Edward MacNeal would say that it comes from the Black English Vernacular (BEV). I think so too. I recall a reference to the name in Pulp Fiction: VINCENT: What do you think about what happened to Antwan?
MIA: Who's Antwan? ... What does it mean?
BUTCH: I'm an American, our names don't mean sh*t. ...
Behind the Name http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=anthonyhas enlightened us that it ultimately comes from the Italian name "Antonius":
From the Roman family name Antonius, which is of unknown Etruscan origin. It is sometimes claimed to mean "flower" from Greek ανθος (anthos). Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius) was the Roman general who ruled the Roman empire jointly with Augustus for a short time. Their relationship turned sour however, and he and his mistress Cleopatra were attacked and forced to commit suicide. Shakespeare's tragedy 'Antony and Cleopatra' is based on them. Other famous bearers include the 3rd-century Saint Anthony the Abbot, a hermit from Egypt who founded monasticism, and the 13th-century Saint Anthony of Padua, the patron saint of Portugal.I'm just sayin'... "Eventually, everything connects." ~ Charles Eames
"Eventually, everything connects."
~ Charles Eames
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