http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/22/name-of-the-day-edward/ Where Every Name Has a Story Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:32:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/22/name-of-the-day-edward/#comment-29084 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:03:56 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=1082#comment-29084 [...] – Original a diminutive of Theodore or sometimes Edward – neither of which have anything to do with bears – Teddy took on a different connotation [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/22/name-of-the-day-edward/#comment-28481 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:03:23 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=1082#comment-28481 [...] trials, she still received an outstanding education, and survived the reigns of her half-brother Edward and half-sister [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/22/name-of-the-day-edward/#comment-28210 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:56:18 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=1082#comment-28210 [...] Spotted my first message board thread where the parents dismissed Edward because of the sparkly [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/22/name-of-the-day-edward/#comment-27153 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:03:06 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=1082#comment-27153 [...] Samuel Beckett, a native of Dublin, Ireland, famous for his play Waiting for Godot.  Along with Edward Albee, Tom Stoppard, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, and a number of others, his works are usually [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/22/name-of-the-day-edward/#comment-26687 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:29:34 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=1082#comment-26687 [...] all-human babies.  (And, of course, protests on message boards: we didn’t name her after Edward and Bella’s daughter.  We just always liked the name.)  The Stir has a list of Twenty [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/22/name-of-the-day-edward/#comment-26062 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:50:36 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=1082#comment-26062 [...] use of Temperance may not be accidental.  It is sometimes said that Elizabeth’s half-brother Edward called her “Sweet Sister Temperance.”  It may have been a general term of endearment [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/22/name-of-the-day-edward/#comment-24399 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:03:12 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=1082#comment-24399 [...] Day.  Still, it gives the French name a sort of Americana vibe.  Francis had a cousin named Edward Bellamy who was also a writer.  You might’ve stumbled across his utopian novel Looking [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/22/name-of-the-day-edward/#comment-24203 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:04:59 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=1082#comment-24203 [...] quite trace is Miss Christian Elspeth Mallock.  Her portrait is above; it was painted by Edward Arthur Walton, the noted Scottish portrait and landscape painter, active in the late 1800s and [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/22/name-of-the-day-edward/#comment-24048 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:03:27 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=1082#comment-24048 [...] Eddie Murphy’s family includes a daughter called Zola Ivy. [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2008/11/22/name-of-the-day-edward/#comment-21885 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:24:31 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=1082#comment-21885 [...] second syllable feels lucky, and Edward has Twilight going for him.  How about this Ed- [...]

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