Well, I have decided that when I go to London...I am gonna go by the name that Lola calls me when we have chatted in person and on the phone... which is 'Poppie', that is how it looks on screen in here on the boards.....at home here it sounds like POE-PEE!!!(My first neice could not pronounce Pauline over 20 yrs ago and it stuck!! )

If you have heard the cockney accent, I think you will understand, and also if you know of the London, East end soap opera 'Eastenders'!!
I could not bear to be called POWLEEN.....no way, it would drive me nuts. Thanks Lola. xx

Popea

Po, great to see you. When do you go and how long witll you be gone?

I LOVE EASTENDERS!!!! Haven't seen them in years...we can't get them here in the US...but, I watched that show when I lived in England. I'm sure it's changed a lot. I really liked Faulty Towers...John Cleese is so funny...and I just learned that his wife at the time, Connie, is American...had no idea...she spoke with what I thougth was a perfect English accent.

I just got around to reading this entire post on names....such fun learning everyone's real name, the meaning and how they feel about it. After 50-something years, I've finally made peace with my name. Growing up, I absolutely hated it and asked my Mom constantly "Why?!" My mother had this thing for the name Janie. As a child, she named all her dolls that! So after 2 boys, she was convinced that #3 was also a boy so she had Christopher in mind. My Dad, knowing how much she wanted a Janie, presented her/me with a new bureau at Christmas (one month before I was born) with a card that read "Merry Christmas, Janie." She was touched but very sure he'd be disappointed. When the old doc came out and told Dad "it's a girl" my Dad said "I know!!" And the rest is history. Still, I felt so traumatized because at the tender age of 15 I had to listen to that old shampoo tv commercial that said "Plain Jane, a failure!" It stuck with me. My husband has made the comment (without thinking) referring to an antique car as a "Plain Jane." lol He always feels so bad but it makes me laugh now! I'm at peace with Jane Marie. It's the feminine of John, meaning gracious gift of God. How good is that?

Jane, I have a dear friend whose name is Jean Marie. I love that name. Therefore, I also like Jane MArie. DO you ever go by that?

My name and my three children's names all mean a gift of God. We can add you to the pack!

My name is so Italian, I had no chance! My parents used names on my and connected them together. I am very Italian, with one quarter of French in me. My name means "noble traveler," and my middle name means things like "Holy," and religious meanings. My parents were very old country so they named their children accordingly. There was a "Gina Renee," and and "Elsa Nadine," and a "Victor Ugo." I was the middle child as my sister died when she was very young, and she was older than me. I was the perfect middle child and displayed all the traits. I think I still do. I was almost named "Etra," and then "Nadia." I was saved, ( I guess,) from those names by an older woman whom my father met right before I was born who so impressed him with her life, (she was very elderly,) that he and my mother wanted her name to carry on. It was spelled by my mother though, and is usually spelled "AnneLise." My spelling is, again, over-the-top Italian.

No chance of "passing," here. Then again, I look French/Italian and everyone who meets me guesses that is what I am...

Great thread!
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