The Guess Your Name Thread

[Skink]

Not sexy unless you consider Faith sexy.

Skink, you'll always be Skink to me.

I was gonna say Faith...

pretty hard to lose the skink now...

[birdgirl73]

Elenor for D?

Emily for Bird.

Yey for Sammie!! You got mine exactly right. Sorry, Geonagual. I'm not a Karen. Always wanted to be something like Karen or Susan because my name wasn't common when I was growing up, Now it's wildly popular.

Eleanor was a good guess for Demeter, Sammie, but didn't quite nail it. I just love the name Eleanor, by the way. Again, think royalty for Demeter. English royalty in particular. The House of Windsor specifically. Also another royal nearly 500 years ago from the House of Tudor.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

I got it! It's my youngest girl's name!^

[birdgirl73]

It's a classic!!! And it fits Demeter to a T because she's quite regal herself.

My parents named me and my two sisters after the three Brontë sisters--and in the same order--which is what you might expect from two English professor parents. My darling older sister's name was Charlotte Elizabeth. Terribly nice name, that. Terribly nice sister, too.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

I agree sweetie.It's a great name, and it transcends age.
Both of your parents were/are English profs? Lordy, I don't know whether to be envious, or what. My mom is so pedantic she makes me want to swallow my own tongue. But she's also a great person to rap with.

[birdgirl73]

They were indeed. I suppose they still are, except that they're retired now. After we got grown and up into school, my mom went back and finished another doctorate in Spanish and taught that until retirement instead of English.

It was great, I suppose. But I think spawning articulate children was somewhat of a curse for them because I was such a handful as a kid. I was a sharp-tongued little cuss. They must have wondered what they'd wrought.

The only drawback was when asking for help on English or history homework. They'd give WAY more information than anyone could ever want. We learned early on to find the answers ourselves unless we wanted to hear an expanded discussion of grammar, history or literature. As a kid, that sort of thing was simply intolerable. "Just give me the answer, Dad!" was a standard plea.

[Demeter]

lol birdgirl- that sounds like my students now. They get frustrated with some of the quirks in English and want me to make everything logical, yet when I start to explain the origins of the language, they say " okay miss, never mind!"
I'll bet you were Shirley Temple cute but too smart for your own good when you were little (still are). I was that way too. My poor mother!
My name is one of those that when some people hear it, they immediately assume I am okay with any form of shortened nickname attached to it "So do you go by - or - or....?" Nope, you have to say the whole thing. Four syllables means you really care

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

They were indeed. I suppose they still are, except that they're retired now. After we got grown and up into school, my mom went back and finished another doctorate in Spanish and taught that until retirement instead of English.

It was great, I suppose. But I think spawning articulate children was somewhat of a curse for them because I was such a handful as a kid. I was a sharp-tongued little cuss. They must have wondered what they'd wrought.

The only drawback was when asking for help on English or history homework. They'd give WAY more information than anyone could ever want. We learned early on to find the answers ourselves unless we wanted to hear an expanded discussion of grammar, history or literature. As a kid, that sort of thing was simply intolerable. "Just give me the answer, Dad!" was a standard plea.

HAHAHAH! I used to plead "just hit me!"

Any lecture from my mom was waaaaay worse than a beating. And now, when my kids go over to her house (like if I'm busy and can't pick them up from school) they HATE it when she helps them with homework. She way overexplains stuff, to the point it's actually confusing.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

lol birdgirl- that sounds like my students now. They get frustrated with some of the quirks in English and want me to make everything logical, yet when I start to explain the origins of the language, they say " okay miss, never mind!"
I'll bet you were Shirley Temple cute but too smart for your own good when you were little (still are). I was that way too. My poor mother!
My name is one of those that when some people hear it, they immediately assume I am okay with any form of shortened nickname attached to it "So do you go by - or - or....?" Nope, you have to say the whole thing. Four syllables means you really care

Oh golly, my mom is like that. If you don't say her whole name, she simply won't answer you. But my youngest daughter's name (yours) does really lend itself to shortening. She goes by the common derivative, because it's something she can wrap her Elmer Fudd tongue around.

I was called by my middle name for most of my life. When I decided to start going by my first name, my aunt stopped speaking to me. I still don't know what that's all about. You'd think she would be used to people being persnickety about their names.

[Oneironaut]

Nobody would ever guess the name I have to live with, unless I gave them a hint. I will tell you that I share my name with a clothing company, and that it is an anagram of one of the words in this post. Anyone want to hazard a guess?