What does the -vious ending mean?
Buffy: So how'd she get away with the bad mojo stuff? Anya: Giles sold it to her. Giles: Well, I didn't know it was her. I mean, how could I? If it's any consolation, I may have overcharged her.
'Sleeper'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Dec 13, 2012 10:10:43 am PST #4294 of 30001
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Amy - Dec 13, 2012 10:11:29 am PST #4295 of 30001
Because books.
Southern women are often named either their mother's or grandmother's surname as a first name
My dad dated a Southern girl named Brown in college. It was her mother's maiden name.
flea - Dec 13, 2012 10:12:38 am PST #4296 of 30001
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I know a family (Southern, white, middle-class) with boys named Fear (after a Puritan ancestor), Caedmon, Gunnar, and Owen. I always sort of pity poor Owen in that mix.
I myself have a Puritan ancestor (female) named Experience. Which strikes me as very funny to name a baby, since she obviously had none!
flea - Dec 13, 2012 10:13:55 am PST #4297 of 30001
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I have no idea what -avious means, but it clearly sounded really cool to a whole swatch of parents.
tommyrot - Dec 13, 2012 10:17:05 am PST #4298 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm changing my name to Thomasavious.
eta: Although tommyrotavious flows nicely off the tongue....
msbelle - Dec 13, 2012 10:23:47 am PST #4299 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
One of my favorite name encountered was Srinivaas Bophana. So pretty just floating off the tongue. Of course, his nickname was Spaz, so that kinda ruined it.
Sparky1 - Dec 13, 2012 10:27:11 am PST #4300 of 30001
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I've probably mentioned this, but my DH went to college with a woman named Lasagna. She was a twin, and I'm blanking on her sister's name (it was not unusual).
Tom Scola - Dec 13, 2012 10:36:30 am PST #4301 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
How long ago was this? Maybe she was the person who invented Lasagna!
Fred Pete - Dec 13, 2012 10:37:22 am PST #4302 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I knew a Brame in law school. He went by his middle name, Perry.
Sue - Dec 13, 2012 10:40:28 am PST #4303 of 30001
hip deep in pie
My great-grandfather's name (and my dad's middle name) is Prosper. I think it's not entirely unusual French name.
My dad's maternal grandfather was named Prime. (The bastardization of an Italian saint name by Irish Newfoundlanders apparently.)
And my aunt was married to an Expedite. (I just don't know.)