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Aww, Forget-me-not! love it! I also like Satina as a GP. I might start making a new list of GPs (when I have some spare time!).
I find the commemorative names like Siege Sebastopol interesting. I know there are other names which got used in the past to commemorate wars or battles. Not something we do these days (but then our attitude to war is different now for a number of reasons).
Did you see this article a few weeks ago on the BBC website about a baby named Somme?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31967883
I find the commemorative names like Siege Sebastopol interesting. I know there are other names which got used in the past to commemorate wars or battles. Not something we do these days (but then our attitude to war is different now for a number of reasons).
Did you see this article a few weeks ago on the BBC website about a baby named Somme?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31967883
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Thanks for the link, fascinating! Tiny is fairly interesting on its own - definitely not a name you'd forget :)
I have quite a collection of commemorative names, most of which is unfortunately trapped on the hard drive in my dead laptop atm. Pretoria, Colenso & Tugela are a few from the Boer War I remember, and I suspect Victress and Surrender from the last batch of these (http://www.behindthename.com/bb/baby/4598236) might have been war-related. Maybe I'll post the lot at some point.
I have quite a collection of commemorative names, most of which is unfortunately trapped on the hard drive in my dead laptop atm. Pretoria, Colenso & Tugela are a few from the Boer War I remember, and I suspect Victress and Surrender from the last batch of these (http://www.behindthename.com/bb/baby/4598236) might have been war-related. Maybe I'll post the lot at some point.
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