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Re: My name
by Amphelise (Chrisell)
8/31/2014, 11:19 AM
in reply to a message by Sabertooth
On what grounds would you say it's a variation of Chauncey?

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- Sabertooth
8/31/2014, 6:58 PM
QuoteOn what grounds would you say it's a variation of Chauncey?

It is not unusual for an unvoiced |ch| to be corrupted to a voiced |j| sound. There is further support in that Chauncey is a variation of Chance, which rhymes with the |Jance| part of the name. |-y| in both cases would likely be the familiar/diminutive form of the names.In naming cultures that are based, primarily, on euphony, there is no compulsion to maintain spelling and pronunciation standards.See LATHAN for a more extreme example.Admittedly, it IS a SWAG.* Feel free to offer other/better ideas...*Scientific, Wildly Assumptive Guess...

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