Message: "Candace" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Candace

by A (guest)

6/9/2019, 7:01 AM

Wdyt of Candace?

#Candace

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- number1212

6/9/2019, 2:39 PM

I like it but I like Candice better even though it’s a variant. I like the nickname Candy.

- Raven Briar (Constant) +5

6/9/2019, 12:02 PM

I love the association with the Biblical Queen of Sheba and the hereditary queens of Ethiopia. Unfortunately, I really dislike the nickname Candy; it's too flimsy, artificially sweet, and a bit tacky.

Does anyone know of a good nickname for Candace that isn't Candy?

- JemimahGertrude

6/10/2019, 4:53 AM

Andi or Daisy

- Billina (RDNZL) +1

6/9/2019, 12:51 PM

Ace.

- Raven Briar (Constant)

6/9/2019, 4:10 PM

Ace is actually really cute as a nickname. I wouldn't have considered it.

- queenv

6/9/2019, 12:26 PM

There's Dacey or Dacy. I was thinking that I'd come up with this myself and it was stupid because it's not intuitive with the way Candace is usually pronounced, but then I looked it up and this site has it as a nickname for Candace.

- Nia (2angelgoats)

6/9/2019, 12:23 PM

I guess you could use Casey. Not a huge fan personally but some people might be.

- Billina (RDNZL) +5

6/9/2019, 9:32 AM

I like Candace, well enough. It's a solid name. I know people say they think of yeast infections because of "candida", but I don't. It stands on its own.

I can't decide whether I like the NN Candy, or not.

- queenv +4

6/9/2019, 9:41 AM

Okay, I accept that Candida itself must remain a GP for me because of the yeast infection, but associating Candace / Candice with the yeast infection is just silly IMO. I myself don't recall seeing anyone say that, not that I doubt you.

- A (guest) +3

6/9/2019, 10:19 AM

I have known a few Candices and no one ever said that.

- Billina (RDNZL) +2

6/9/2019, 11:00 AM

I remember a couple of people saying that when I first started posting, and I thought it was silly. I have also known a few Candaces, and no one ever mentioned that.

- A (guest) +1

6/9/2019, 12:32 PM

And how many children would even know about that infection...

- Billina (RDNZL)

6/9/2019, 12:51 PM

Yeah, it's one of those things I didn't even think or know about, until I joined BtN, lol.

- queenv

6/9/2019, 9:13 AM

I love it, but prefer the spelling Candice. Candy is a cute nickname, though not inevitable. It could be used in childhood, but dropped in favor of the full form if the bearer decides that Candy is too childish or sweet. That said, the only Candice I've known was never called Candy.

The fact that I like Candice so much and that Candice sounds enough like my own name that people on the phone pretty frequently mishear my name as Candice has made me think that if my name weren't my name and if I ran into it when it was newly popular and not dated, I might have liked my own name.

- **Hiddlestoner** (Lady_Skywalker) +9

6/9/2019, 8:56 AM

Pronounced can-dis I think its ok, a litte dated though. But I really like when its pronounced can-DAY-see.

- A (guest) +8

6/9/2019, 9:00 AM

I have never heard that prounounciation.

- **Hiddlestoner** (Lady_Skywalker) +7

6/9/2019, 9:19 AM

It's the biblical pronunciation (at least in English)

- Raven Briar (Constant) +6

6/9/2019, 12:06 PM

Are you sure that it's the Biblical pronunciation? All the pastors I've heard have said Kan-dis. Maybe the pastors you've encountered are using translations with the Kandake spelling?

This message was edited 6/9/2019, 12:06 PM

- **Hiddlestoner** (Lady_Skywalker) +1

6/9/2019, 2:59 PM

Yes, I'm very sure. No the tanslation we use has Candace or Can·da'ce.

https://biblespeak.org/candace-pronunciation/ (this site also says can DAY see)

- Raven Briar (Constant)

6/9/2019, 4:09 PM

Thank you for providing the link. This is very interesting. I guess I need to attend more churches. :)

- A (guest) +3

6/9/2019, 1:37 PM

How would they even know how it was pronounced then?

- Raven Briar (Constant) +2

6/9/2019, 2:05 PM

I don't know. I assume it would be the same way that historians come up with pronunciations for ancient Egyptian texts and other dead languages. At least with Greek and Hebrew, they have an idea of how things would have been pronounced, but Candace would be an English translation of a Jewish text's recording of an ancient African title.

- A (guest) +1

6/9/2019, 7:25 PM

Armaic not Hebrew was spoken during Biblical times and records were not really kept to the extend that they are kept now. Prounouncitions are made up. No way of knowing that.

- Raven Briar (Constant)

6/9/2019, 9:23 PM

The Old Testament of the Bible is recorded in Hebrew. Only a few chapters in the prophecies of Ezra and Daniel and one verse in Jeremiah were written in Aramaic. The New Testament was written in Greek since it was widely used in scholarship during the time. I agree that we really cannot be 100% certain about the pronunciations, which is why I made my comment.

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