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And I'm too much of a smart-alec not to :-DFelicity is (roughly speaking) "happiness" in English; the Spanish version is Felicidad.:-)

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thanks a lot guysi think we should finish now, but thanx again
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Althought you say we should finish just something extraFirst and least, I do not live in Spain, my sister does and she tells me it's cold there, really cold to our standards, both me and here are Peruvian, here we are entering summer and it's getting hotter but the average is "mild with unpredictable undesirable extremes, cold shadows but suffocatingly hot light-zones"... Felicidad is not a common name but it does means that, then there is the uncommon surname "Alegre" or "Alegría" which means "happy" and "Happiness" respectively... And as name there are; Alicia (Spanish form of Hebrew "Aliza" which means "joy" or of the German "Adalheidis" which means "noble kind/sort/type"), Leticia (Spanish form of late latin "Laetitia" which means "joy, happiness"), Nanda (It's and Indian name but at least here in Peru similiar names are easily adopted, phonetically it matches Spanish surnames), Winston (Ok, it's English and means "Joy Stone" but here in Peru it has arrived as a name for there is certain tendency of pretending that through alienation a superior status would be achieved, at least nominally, ironically those who use this names with that in mind use alternate spellings out of ignorance such as "Jhon" or "Yon" for "John" and names like "Esmiders" pretending to be the surname "Smithers" can be seen, in this way they reveal themselves as both ignorant and alienated, the first thing which is totally comprehensible and no reason for segregation, but the second, it's a lack of pride for what is one's own that does deserves some reaction; on the other hand those who they pretend to equal with such names tend to use Spanish names mostly, unless they have a non-Spanish surname and/or non-Spanish bloodline), Abigail ("my father is joy" is an uncommon name but can be seen with a non-English pronunciation which I would represent as; "Ah-bi-Gah-eel"), Fortunato ("fortunate" in Italian and/or Latin), Felix (popularity might have gone down due to "Felix the cat"), etc.
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soso, where the hell are you? in peru? Cool. and sorry for saying you're spanish, I mean you have already told me that your name is italian (and I saw that name in my Italian book. I learn italian :D). Tanx for these names. I just wanted to know which names are my sister/brother names, cuz my real name means happy. Ciao.Ps: if you want to contact me pls write an email: jynx_torquilla@feemail.hu it would be easier cuz i think we don't have enough place (have you seen how much have we written to each other?)
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