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Jemima?
| Mon, 07-30-2007 - 7:19pm |
Jemima?
- I love it!
- I like it.
- It's okay.
- Ummm, no.
- Absolutely not!
- I've been digging this name lately. I've also been
- into learning about the Hebrew roots of my Christian
- faith, and this is a Hebrew/Biblical name. What
- would you nn with? Jemma? Jemmy? Nothing?
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I posted the poll.
When I first heard "Jemima" I thought "No way!!" But I think that's because of its black-mammy-syrup connections, which is too bad because honestly I think it's a lovely name. Recently I saw a beautiful young lady on TV whose name was Jemima (reality show, not a fictional name). So I've been rethinking it since then ... it was also cool to find out today that it has Hebrew roots since, as I said, I've been studying the Hebrew/Jewish roots of the Christian faith recently. I would consider pairing it with my mn Dawn.
Darla
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Jemima Dawn sounds nice! It is quite popular and "normal" in Britain, and usually we follow those trends so maybe it will become more accepted soon in the U.S. I like it!
Liz
Thanks belle_petite for the siggy!
Can't? Maybe not...but I think we maybe should try...I mean, we were talking about whether or not Rory can break away from the Gilmore Girls and people seem to think it can and it has no real history, whereas Jemima has far more history than simply a racially loaded pancake schill...I mean, it's a great Old Testament name, Job's daughter that he actually put on equal footing with his sons (in his second family, AFTER all the disasters)...pretty cool story for our times. And the "dove" meaning doesn't hurt...
(And I'm thinking, if we ever have a second daughter, Jemima might well be one of her middle names because I do like it that much. But, then, if we ever have a second son, I like Amos for one of his middle names so...)
Darla
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Sorry, I can't get past the pancake syrup association...
nn Jemma is nice though! :-)
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