Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    
    Anna ? or Hannah? 
    
    D.

    How about Ada?
    
    Deb

    
    
    How about Kara K.
    
    (Your last initial is `K', right?)
    

    Mairiam ? - var. of Miriam, or is it Mariam, oh well...

    Lil?

    
    Elle?   

Matildadlitam?

        Eve?

    Ava is a beautiful name.
    
    caroline
    

    	Eleven replies and no one has asked:
    
    		"Why does her name have to be a palindrome?"
    
    	Scott

    
    
    Because of the year 1991.  It is the first time since 1881.  It won't
    happen again until 2002.
    

    I think leel would be a good name to make up.
    
    (look at it in a mirror.  (-:  )
    
    ed

    Arora
    
    Mairiam
    
    
    
    -Jody

A large lexicon yielded (yelt?) these capitalized palindromes:

Abba      Ada       Adda      Adinida   Ajaja     Aka       Akka
Alala     Amma      Ana       Anna      Arara     Asa       Ata
Atta      Bab       Bob       Eve       Ewe       Kassak    Kazak
Malayalam Mam       Nan       Ofo       Oto       Otto      Pop
Samas     Senones   Seres     Sis       Sus       Tat       Tebet
Uru

I suppose you can discard Bob and Otto and Pop right off the bat.  I sheepishly
suggest that you strike Ewe as well.

Ada, Anna and Eve have already been contributed.

The only other words which I am sure I have heard as girls' names are Ana and
Nan  Many of the remaining words may not be names, or come from cultures I am
not familiar with; some could even be boy's names.  However, they might have
wonderful meanings.
				Hope this helps,
				/AHM

    >  Need a Palindromic Girl's Name
    
    What does a palindromic girl look like?  Furthermore, what's she look
    like in a mirrorrim?
    
    :-)
    
    DanaD
    
    PS -- I have a boustrophedonic girl.  Can anyone suggest a name for
    her?
    
    Pardon the rathole...  see you there, perhaps...  :-) x 10^+6

    
    
    Boustrophedonic--You mean someone that writes one line normally, and
    then the next line dyslexically?
    
    Like this  ------------->---->--------->---------->----->->
                                                              V
               -------------<----<---------<----------<------<-
    
    How about
    
    JoJo ?
    
    NICK
    

    ... and this (hypothetical) girl o' mine is not only sidxelic, she's 
    stubborn as an ox, fer sure!
    :-)

    Personally, I like Hannah.  'course, it was the name of my baby in the
    show, but *hey*, so I'm biased!  (*8
    
    E Grace

        Why does the list in .16 contain "Pop" but not "Mom"?
        
        Although anyone born in 1991 is too young to be called
        "Mom".
        
        Dan
        
        p.s.  Today is palindromic, 19-2-91, in places that list
        the month in the middle.

>        Why does the list in .16 contain "Pop" but not "Mom"?

Because the lexicon it was drawn from contains "Pop" (and "pop") but not "Mom"
(or "mom").  I don't know how the lexicon was composed, but it may mean that no
one ever had to use it to spell-correct a document with [Mm]om in it.

If it's any consolation, it does contain "mum" (but not "Mum").
				/AHM

>>        Why does the list in .16 contain "Pop" but not "Mom"?
>
>Because the lexicon it was drawn from contains "Pop" (and "pop") but not "Mom"
>(or "mom").  I don't know how the lexicon was composed, but it may mean that no
>one ever had to use it to spell-correct a document with [Mm]om in it.
>
>If it's any consolation, it does contain "mum" (but not "Mum").
>
    
    	Could be that both "pop" and "mum" occur in American English
    	as words in their own right, whereas "Mom' does not.
    
    					andrew

    A few more suggestions:
    
    Elaine
    Allissa
    Elyse
    
    good luck!
    ls

    
    
    My favorite female names
    
    Kim
    Jennifer
    Alexis
    Fantasia
    

    re: -1, -2...
    
    uhhhh...those are pretty names, but are not palindromes.
    
    D!

    Larral
    (a variation of Laurel)
    
    Richard

    
    Viv    Mim   Ivi   Tot
    
    Virginia                 

    Mirim
    
    probably a variant of Miriam, but the woman who wore this name would
    never own up to it ...

    
    > What does a palindromic girl look like?  Furthermore, what's she
    > look like in a mirrorrim?
       
    Very clever, DanaD.  I THOUGHT someone might pick me up on that one.
    I can't tell you how many times I tried to rewrite that sentence in
    order to separate those two words, but. . .
    
    This has been loads of fun.  Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.
    My husband has his heart set on "Hannah".  Our only fear is that it
    seems to be experiencing a resurgence in popularity.  We don't want
    her to be one of six Hannahs in her kindergarten class.
    
    Thanks for letting me use this notes file to discuss this.  It was more
    than a BABYNAMES notes file issue.
    
    - cj

    Hannah may be the most popular but it's the only name in this string
    that I would ever consider naming anybody!
    
    Lorna
    

    Aviva

    
    One of my best friends named her baby girl "Hannah" this past year
    and it was all I could do to keep from gagging when she told me.
    
    "Hannah" was always the MAID'S name in all the books I read while
    growing up!
    

    re .33, I think of Hannah as an early American settler type name.
    
    Lorna
    

    And I think of Mia Farrow in the Woody Allen movie, Hannah and her
    Sisters...;-)
    
    DougO

    .31 -- What's wrong with Anna, Lorna?
    
    .33 -- Nah, that was Hazel.
    
    						Ann B.

    re .36, nothing, Ann.  It's a lovely name.  :-)
    
    Lorna
    

I love the name Hannah!

Kathy

    Howz about Ardra?
    
    KC

    so far Aviva gets my vote

    
    I'm partial to the name "Katelan Marie"
    

.39> Howz about Ardra?

     Now there's a devil of a suggestion!

                                   Atlant

    How about Aylya?

    
    
    Yvettevy
    

    I think Aviva means "spring" in Hebrew???
    
    --bonnie

    yes --bonnie, Aviva means Spring in Hebrew, and is used as a girl's
    name in Israel

       
       Evil Olive

    - .1
    
    Love it! (The title.) Couldn't it go in 671?
    
    D.

    Re:  .17 (Boustrophedonic girls)
    
    Our suggestion for a name for your boustrophedonic girl is Gee Haw.
    
    DAM (Mothers against Dyslexia)

    
    Has anyone mentioned "Ardra"?

    How 'bout
      
        Gnita E. Keating

    Derek:
    
    Just to set your mind at ease:
    
    If you've been following the replies to my original note, you've seen
    some of the suggestions people have offered.  I'm sure most of them
    are tongue-in-cheek, and no one would dream of using them for the very
    reason you mentioned.
    
    They are silly and contrived, but you have to admit, it's been fun.
    I opened the conference just to see what people could come up with.
    But your point is well taken.  I'm sure there are people who have no
    comprehension of the effect a silly name (or initials) will have on 
    their child's pscyhe.
    
    My husband is an Irish National, so we looked closely at Gaelic names,
    but in America, most of them would sound downright cruel (Gobnait?).
    
    - Carolorac
    
    PS:  I once knew a man named Alexander Mlodzianowski.  The couple next
    door to me are Adelard and Fabiola.  I once worked for a check printing
    company and placed orders for people named Brand New O'Brien, Mary
    Golden Brown, Mary Christmas, Candace Kane, Chris Cross and Estella 
    Faggott.  We've all heard the story of the twins, Ura and Ima Hogg.
    There was a man convicted of arson in New Hampshire with the last name of
    Lalumiere ("the light").  A Catholic cardinal in the Philippines has
    the unfortunate last name of Sin.  I could go on.  
    Perhaps this begs the birth of a new conference: SILLY NAMES/REAL PEOPLE.
    

    The "worst" one I've heard that was quite real was:
    
    	Crystal Shandra Lear
    
    --- jerry

       re .54 ("Fabiola"):
       
       The Queen of Belgium is named Fabiola; I'm reasonably sure that it
       is not considered to be a silly name there.
       
       --Mr Topaz

    Re funny names: Try doing some genealogy and you'll turn up lots of
    interesting names. My favorite of those I've found is "Wealthy Lauretta
    Shafter"; wishful thinking, I wonder, or descriptive? ;-) [And I'd hate
    to have a name like that at income tax time.]
    
    Re palindromes: one of the suggestions was "Mairiam" - turns out that
    "Mariam" [not "Miriam", though it may have originated as a misspelling]
    is a family name of ours, so it's pretty close. Alas, whenever I read
    "Mairiam" I think of "Mairzey doats," so I couldn't in all honesty
    recommend it...
    
    -b

    Re: Unusual names
    
    My mother was doing some genealogy research of relatives in South
    Dakota and found a woman whose name was Under the Baggage.
    
    In grad school I taught a freshman Calculus class and one of my
    students was named Arc Cosine Carter.
    
    Mary

RE:   .58
    
>    In grad school I taught a freshman Calculus class and one of my
>    students was named Arc Cosine Carter.
    
>    Mary
    
    
    Are you sure it wasn't a trigonometry class?
    

    re.54 harumph!! ;^)/2
    
    most Gaelic names are cruel???? oh, my word ...
    
    once upon a time I had thought to have three sons: Ian, Sean, & Evan
    three Celtic versions of John to go go with Johnston.
    
    Gaelic names of woman in my family nclude Siobhan, Fiona, Caitlin,
    Maire ... I find them lyrical
    
    but maybe it;s the Gaelic in me ...
    
      Annie

    
    Three of my great aunts were: Rena, Deana, and Vina.  These were 
    nicknames for Zephyrina, Odeana, and Alvina.  I have an uncle 
    Napolean in the family somewhere -- maybe he is the one we all know 
    as Dewey -- and his brother was named Valmore.  My grandmother's 
    name was Flosia.  I love all the old names but I'm not too fond of 
    the new strange ones.
    
    CQ

                       ... Secan't remember.
    
                                :-)

    G'day,
     Re comment about parents and naming of their offspring - Yes I noticed
    the t-i-c nature of the replies... and yes Hannah is quite acceptable
    and no I wasn't having a dig... (as I said it was a general comment)
    
    
    re -.1 reckon its time to sin off, but don't be afraid of Secs, cos its
    just an angle.
    
    derek
    
    

    Edith Tide

    
    
    I have a friend with the name of Crystal Powers....
    
    

    
    .63
    
    Let's not go off on a tangent here.
    
    D.

    
    .68
    
    Yes, the sines don't look too good.
    
    D.