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Re: Joheved,
You might sometimes come across it as Jocheved.
The ch is pronounced rather like ch in the Scottish word loch. Now, I wonder what would please her,
Charlotte, Julia, or Louisa?
Ann and Mary, they're too common;
Joan's too formal for a woman;
Jane's a prettier name beside;
But we had a Jane that died.
They would say, if 'twas Rebecca,
That she was a little Quaker.
From poem [1809] by Charles Lamb
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