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- From: nichael@bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Girls names - "M"
- Message-ID: <NICHAEL.93Jan22122816@kariba.bbn.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:28:16 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.205107.9014@pts1.pts.mot.com> <19930122095147SASTLS@mvs.sas.com>
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- In-reply-to: SASTLS@mvs.sas.com's message of 22 Jan 93 14:51:00 GMT
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- SASTLS@mvs.sas.com (Tamara Shaffer) writes:
- Alice Bertelson wrote:
- >Hi, ... [looking for girls' names beginning with "M"]
-
- We chose Melissa. I also like Molly and Marissa. Isn't Reid's
- daughter Maera? That's pretty. Good luck!
-
- Really? Our daughter's name is Maera (and, yes, it is pretty and,
- yes, I do recommend it). Is there another one?
-
- (We found it in a books of star names --a good source for non-ordinary
- but beatiful names. Pronounced MY-ruh it's a medieval name for the
- constellation the Northern Crown; we found out later it turns up
- --with the Greek spelling "Maira"-- twice in Homer: as one of the
- Nerieds in _Iliad_ and one of the "catalogue of beautiful women" in
- _Odyssey_.)
-
- Nichael (Also Daddy to Asah; so, if anyone needs and "A" name... ;)
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