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Helpinteresting names from novel
all from Jam on the Vine, by LaShonda Katrice Barnett. excellent coming of age story about a black journalist starting her own newspaper in the early 20th century.
Ivoe- mc. how would you pronounce it? im guessing eye-voh. i love the look and sound, though i'd like to know where the author got it from.
Ona
Timothy nn Timbo
Irabelle- honoring name, combination of Iraj (grandma) and Mary-Belle (great aunt)
Leila nn Lemon
Ennis - i like this way better than Dennis
Mary-Belle - originally Mehriban
Berdis nn Bird
Zilpha
Roena
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https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/180731/115070 my pnl
Ivoe- mc. how would you pronounce it? im guessing eye-voh. i love the look and sound, though i'd like to know where the author got it from.
Ona
Timothy nn Timbo
Irabelle- honoring name, combination of Iraj (grandma) and Mary-Belle (great aunt)
Leila nn Lemon
Ennis - i like this way better than Dennis
Mary-Belle - originally Mehriban
Berdis nn Bird
Zilpha
Roena
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https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/180731/115070 my pnl
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ghgghf i did NOT expect Timbo to be called stunning...it made me double take when i first read it (though it is a cute nick name). which name is related to Etienne, though- not Timbo?
also, i should've said in the original post- Mary-Belle's name has a tragic origin. she's a former slave, and was renamed that by her previous slaveholder, presumably because he thought Mehriban was too foreign. there's no explanation as to why she kept it for decades afterwards, but i'm guessing it's because Mary-Belle was what so many knew her as, and/or her old name reminded her more of those painful memories than her new one. also idk if it was a common African American name, but it does sound like it'd have been a common Southern name.
also, i should've said in the original post- Mary-Belle's name has a tragic origin. she's a former slave, and was renamed that by her previous slaveholder, presumably because he thought Mehriban was too foreign. there's no explanation as to why she kept it for decades afterwards, but i'm guessing it's because Mary-Belle was what so many knew her as, and/or her old name reminded her more of those painful memories than her new one. also idk if it was a common African American name, but it does sound like it'd have been a common Southern name.
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