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- Fri August 9th, 2013, 5:36 pm
- Forum: Questions and Research
- Topic: Nicknames?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4125
[quote=""MLE""]As long as we're doing name-changes, how about the Jacobites? I wondered for years where THAT name came from, until one day wiki updated the page to explain the 'Jacob' is the Latin form of 'James'. [/quote] The evolution of Jacob into James is as convoluted as the old game of "gossip...
- Tue August 6th, 2013, 2:59 pm
- Forum: Questions and Research
- Topic: Nicknames?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4125
[quote=""EC2""]We were taught in school that 'Teddy' dates to Theodore Rosevelt (sp). I'm currently putting up a daily medieval male and female name at my Facebook page and Twitter account. I'm taking them from the Curia Regis rolls of 1211-1212 and doing them alphabetically. Today was P and I was a...
- Mon August 5th, 2013, 9:20 pm
- Forum: Questions and Research
- Topic: Nicknames?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4125
- Wed July 31st, 2013, 10:04 pm
- Forum: Victorian
- Topic: Return of the Victorian age thriller
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8202
- Wed July 31st, 2013, 9:57 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: Reassessing Jane Eyre
- Replies: 50
- Views: 13381
- Wed August 24th, 2011, 8:13 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: What are you reading August 2011?
- Replies: 185
- Views: 17307
- Wed August 24th, 2011, 4:32 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: What are you reading August 2011?
- Replies: 185
- Views: 17307
- Tue August 23rd, 2011, 10:34 pm
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Eyes in Novels
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3888
- Tue August 23rd, 2011, 8:23 pm
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Eyes in Novels
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3888
[quote=""fljustice""]I'm working my way through Queen by Right and one character is described as having purple eyes. Really? I know Elizabeth Taylor was lauded for her violet colored eyes (I never could tell in the movies), but purple is such a weird color. [/quote] It is my (cynical) opinion that E...
- Tue August 23rd, 2011, 8:18 pm
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Eyes in Novels
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3888
[quote=""LoveHistory""]My Mom said she was taught in school that brown eyes are dominant. Well she had six kids and only one of them has her brown eyes. I wonder if there are cycles on these things, or if there was a misprint in the textbook, or if someone was just plain wrong.[/quote] No, they were...