http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/08/name-of-the-day-alice/ Where Every Name Has a Story Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:32:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/08/name-of-the-day-alice/#comment-29598 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:03:04 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1353#comment-29598 [...] daughter Charlie or Evan doesn’t make the list, but Alix does.  A medieval French variant of Alice worn by European royals into the twentieth century and still in use in France today, Alix splits [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/08/name-of-the-day-alice/#comment-28810 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:03:51 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1353#comment-28810 [...] obvious choice is Alice, but if that doesn’t appeal, variations like Aelis or Aleydis could [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/08/name-of-the-day-alice/#comment-28577 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:03:54 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1353#comment-28577 [...] Oscar Wilde gave the name to a Russian barmaid turned assassin in an 1880 play.  Now that sitcom Alice is fading from our memories, Vera is no longer a ditzy diner waitress.  Instead, she’s [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/08/name-of-the-day-alice/#comment-28486 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:03:35 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1353#comment-28486 [...] She was most popular as an independent name in the 1880s and 1890s, along with Emma and Clara, Alice and Grace – but also Ethel and Bertha, Minnie and Ruth.  Just because some made a comeback [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/08/name-of-the-day-alice/#comment-26778 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:02:43 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1353#comment-26778 [...] named Harpo, with those five letters inked on their birth certificates?  In The Color Purple – an Alice Walker novel famously adapted for the big screen – there is a character named Harpo, the [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/08/name-of-the-day-alice/#comment-25789 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:02:59 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1353#comment-25789 [...] the name is probably slightly more at home on a girl, like classic ends-in-s choices Frances and Alice.  But plural boys – think Wells, Yates, and Ames – are gaining ground, too. [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/08/name-of-the-day-alice/#comment-23262 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:14:43 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1353#comment-23262 [...] big news?  The arrival of Tina Fey’s second daughter, Penelope Athena, a little sister for Alice Zenobia.  [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/08/name-of-the-day-alice/#comment-23198 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 13:02:38 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1353#comment-23198 [...] gorgeously named Alice Zenobia is a big sister!  Tina Fey and husband Jeffrey Richmond have welcomed daughter Penelope [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/08/name-of-the-day-alice/#comment-23020 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:39:30 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1353#comment-23020 [...] and wore the title countess, but she is best known for her sometimes dangerous wit.  Born Emma AliceMargaret, as Margot she became part of a late nineteenth century group of aristocratic intellectuals [...]

]]> http://appellationmountain.net/2009/01/08/name-of-the-day-alice/#comment-22963 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:14:37 +0000 http://appellationmountain.net/?p=1353#comment-22963 [...] on real events, ripped from the headlines of their day – call it a proto-Law and Order.  Alice Arden was found guilty and executed for her crime, along with others in her household, including [...]

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