http://appellationmountain.net/2008/05/19/name-of-the-day-clementine/ Where Every Name Has a Story Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:09:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://appellationmountain.net/2008/05/19/name-of-the-day-clementine/#comment-29475 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:03:16 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-29475 [...] you as outrageous – but you’re not surprised to hear them, and they make Sadie and Clementine sound downright [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/05/19/name-of-the-day-clementine/#comment-29435 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:57:56 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-29435 [...] Alexandra or Clementine [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/05/19/name-of-the-day-clementine/#comment-27522 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:52:15 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-27522 [...] Nazis during World War II.  They were cousins by marriage to Winston Churchill – their aunt Clementine was his [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/05/19/name-of-the-day-clementine/#comment-26715 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:03:12 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-26715 [...] Here’s my favorite – and quirkiest – reference.  The largest citrus fruit is usually called a pomelo.  But in some parts of the world – the Philippines, for one – a pumelo is a suha.  Shades of other edible appellations, like Valencia and Clementine! [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/05/19/name-of-the-day-clementine/#comment-26087 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:03:26 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-26087 [...] princess Marie Charlotte Amélie Augustine Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine – pictured above – would become Empress Carlota of Mexico in the nineteenth [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/05/19/name-of-the-day-clementine/#comment-25637 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:03:25 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-25637 [...] Clementine, Plum … how ’bout this one from the [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/05/19/name-of-the-day-clementine/#comment-23521 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:57:13 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-23521 I’ve been in love with this name for a while but only just started seriously considering it for a future girl. I don’t like many of the nicknames for it because I really love the full name but I’m thinking with young kids, we’d had to come up with something easier. Do you think Minnie is too far off? I can’t help but smile when I picture myself introducing my daughters, Bay and Clementine. Too cute!

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/05/19/name-of-the-day-clementine/#comment-22747 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:05:15 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-22747 [...] It may be that Zelie is a short form for other names, too.  She seems to gaining just a shimmer of attention.  I found this birth announcement for a little girl named Zélie Queen, a little sister for Lucy, Otto, and Clementine. [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/05/19/name-of-the-day-clementine/#comment-22387 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:04:12 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-22387 [...] If that’s true, she keeps company with other edible appellations like Pomeline and Clementine.  But the word typically used in French for hazelnut is noisette.  A nineteenth century [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/05/19/name-of-the-day-clementine/#comment-21763 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:59:55 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-21763 [...] Churchill himself and wife Clementine gave the name Marigold Frances to their fourth child, born just days after the end of World War [...]

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