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in reply to a message by Selwyn
I'm not sure Selwyn but I think Raylonda was making a joke. I'm just too dense to get it, I guess. I'm sure she doesn't really think that Sydney is Latin
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By "goddess of fun and wild parties" she is probably referring to the god Dionysos. Sydney / Sidney were originally surnames derived from a French place name meaning Saint Denis . Denis is derived from Dionysios , which is in turn derived from the name of the god. A twisted path, but Sydney and Dionysos are distantly related.
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It takes a really complex mind and deep knowledge of names to come up with something like that. Now I am convinced that Mike definitely knows of what he speaks.
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