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Subject: Channing doesn't mean "knowing"
Author: Miranda   (Authenticated as Randee15)
Date: March 20, 2005 at 6:26:13 PM
Reply to: Re: Shanning by Jae
Channing is in the database already. It means "a canal" in French, but the first name-from-surname is primarily English in usage.

EDIT: An alternate meaning may be "canon" in Central French. See here: http://snipurl.com/djwz.


Miranda
"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of diseased mind" -- Terry Pratchett

!!!!!!!!!! ← Maud, John, Alice, Peter, Emma, Edith, Lewis, Henry, Isabel, and Joseph

This message was edited by the author on March 20, 2005 at 6:39:52 PM

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