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Re: Names I'm currently digging
As for Megaera, I'm mostly worried about this Wikipedia note that I found "In modern French (mégère), Portuguese (megera), Modern Greek (μέγαιρα), Italian (megera) and Russian (мегера), this name denotes a jealous or spiteful woman - Google translates all five as "shrew"."I'd hate for my kids name to directly translate to "shrew" in so many languages- or at least the idea of a shrew being a spiteful woman. Meg for Marguerite is great! ThanksI like Wes and Wesley both. They do sort of encompass two different images, and that's my favorite kind of nickname ;) photo image_zps50478a13.jpg
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Hm, yeah, I would not name a child Megaera because of that.
I might change my own name to it, though!

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