Because you can never have too many words or names.
For inspiration, you might check the original Words & Names thread and Words & Names, v. 2006.2.
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Because you can never have too many words or names.
For inspiration, you might check the original Words & Names thread and Words & Names, v. 2006.2.
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Yay! -first post dance-
My name means Pearl. My middle name means…friendship, I think? I’ll have to check that. Anyway, if you can guess my middle name I’ll give you a million tons of virtual chocklit!
I don’t really have a favorite word, but I’ve decided that my goal for today is to learn to spell pneumonoÂultraÂmicroÂscopicÂsilicoÂvolcanoÂconiosis.
My name means “bitter sea” in Hebrew, is the manifestation of temptation in Buddhism and is the name of imps that inhabit folklore all over the globe. But is also the name of the Lativian patron goddess (okay, and quite a few goddesses of death). Pretty interesting, no?
My middle name means “crooked nose.” Are you jealous, no? However, it is also the name of a powerful Scottish clan.
I love the word absquatulate. And ennui. And Wii.
I love words, so I know I’m forgetting a TON.
w00t!
I don’t know what my name means. Probably something really boring.
i was talking to dan yestiddy about something or other…i think we were arguing about who was more of a loser (but in the opposite way from you might expect…yeah, we’re weird) and he was like “spell onomatopoeia!” so i rattled it off and was like “ok look i could spell that in frickin 3rd grade or something…” and he’s like “SAME! we both win at being losers” It was amusing.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeosis is an amazing word. riet and i put it on a scrabble board once. it went all the way around and we had to be really inventive cuz we didn’t have enough of some of the letters. go us.
3 ~ My agenda planner for school has a space at the bottom of every week that says Weekly Goals, and and lunch my friends like to write silly things in there. One of them wrote something like “Spell onomotapeia!” It was amusing.
My name means, “Clear, Bright,” in Latin. I think.
I like the word “Soliloquy.”
My favorite scrabble word is “Limn.” I like that word!
4-you use that thing? *dies of shock* That’s all there is to see of life, really. the world must be ending soon.
1 – I know your middle name, so I shall not guess.
3 – Haha! Um… *looks at shoes* I would probably be able to spell onomatopoeia, but I don’t know what it means or how to pronounce it. Hehe… that’s how much of a winner I am, sadly.
Hm. I like depot as a word, for some reason. Because you can pronounce it so many ways. You can say “Dee-Pot” or “Deh-pot” or “Dee-po” or “Deh-po” or probably other ways that I am not creative enough to know.
I also like himmer, hisser, shis, shem, shim, shimmer, and all of those interesting words.
7 ~ On – uh – mot – uh – pee – uh.
Someone correct me if i’m wrong, but i believe an onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it names. Like ‘pow’ or ‘woof.’ My name means light.
9 ~ That’s right.
I like the word simultaneously. And smock, like in Calvin and Hobbes: “Don’t knock my smock or I’ll clean your clock!”
My first name means of Caesar’s group.
2-Aye, lassie-the Crooked Noses. Ye fear them well.
7-Onomatopoeia are words that are sounds of the things they are. Bam, bang, boom, squeak, etc. Oh, a toped?
1- Amity? Amice?
Guess my name! it means princess in Hebrew. (it’s fairly easy as it’s somewhat common)
I like the words whimsical, widdershins, whilst and random other words.
My name means “noble” and “strong” Kind of a wierd name. Old fashioned.
12: Sarah?
e~a – isn’t your name Sarah? *checks definition* Yep, I’m pretty sure it is, as it means princess in Hebrew.
I like words that start with x, y, and z, such as xylophone, zigzag, and yttrium.
oops – that was me, not Karrdash. Sorry
my name means “hard worker” and I can assure you that it’s more common than any of your names…
an dmy middle name is a flower. If you put them together you get the name of a creepy horror movie about a posessed teenager.
12 ~ Gotta be Sarah. That’s my friend’s name.
Widdershins is a most excellent words. (As are whimsical and whilst, but I have a thing for uncommon words and out of those three, I’d have to go with widdershins as the most uncommon.)
I like palindromes a lot too. They’re fun.
my middle name is german(though i’m not german…..odd) and it means powerful lion. can anyone guess?
i had to do a report on my name for my writing class recently, so i know all about it. My first name (Emma, as you probably guessed) comes from German i think and means grandmother, ancestress, whole, universal, or complete. My middle name comes from Greek and means Wisdom. I think this makes me a completely wise grandmother. Rather odd to give a baby a name like that, but whatever. i dont think my parents knew what it meant anyway.
19 – or your name could mean, “universal wisdom, whole wisdom”.
and, yes, my name is Sarah, though I go by a nickname for Sarah.
My cousin’s swears his sister’s name, Molly means “sea of bitterness”…not sure if it’s true or not, but thought it was funny.
My name means “Paul” in English.
Nice, PB and J.
My name is a genus of legume.
But I don’t know what it really means. My fave word is totally “plod”. Don’t ask why, it’s a long story.
Welcome, Clyktose! *pies*
I like the word legume. Tis a kewl word.
21- My best friend’s name is Molly. We translated our names once with a few other people. Her’s came out to be “Bitter Flower of Noble Birth” Mine was “Downy Haired Cheese Judge”
22- Really?
26- Downy Haired Cheese Judge? Okay……
My name means ‘happy’ in arabic. This sets me up for all kinds of jokes in which someone says ‘happy, hmmm? your mother should have named you grumpy’ or ‘lets see you smile then, happy’. this usually makes me even more angry and grumpy. some people have no tact.
22-your name means “sandwich” in american XD
FantasyFan?!?! – I haven’t seen you for awhile! Welcome back! *pies*
21- it does. Molly is a nickname for Mary and both mean sea of bitterness.
31 ~ I always thought Molly could be a nickname for Margaret as well, but I don’t know if it’s true. I have a friend named Molly, though – I want to tell her what it means.
Margaret is a name with some weird nicknames. There’s Maggie and Meg (THP calls me Meg), but then there’s Peggy. I mean, who ever came up with that one? o.o
my name, Morgan, means “sea warrior” GRRR!!!! me, Viking, you , pillaged villager my Middle name, Alexander, means “defender of mankind”
OMFG!!!! i just realized what my true destiny is!!! my life will soon turn into the movie “Water World”!
i am The Mariner!
Mine means, “That lady from Friends.” Current favourite names are Octavian, Emmett, Capricia, and Selene. Teehee.
I think the name Paul means small or humble. Take that how you will. I love the word armageddon.
16-Carrie?
36-Like Paul Carpenter!
I like the name Alphonse. I love Wodehouse names, and hyphenated names–Cyril Bassington-Bassington, for example.
1 – pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Mad skillz.
/gradster(1)
I have a favorite word list, but there are a lot of words on it that I can’t remember. One of them’s quagmire, though, inspired by Ange-something in Eragon. Actually, the whole thing was.
/gradster(1)/
38- Maybe here’s where I picked up the habit of using the phrase “mad skillz”, with a z, to describe my geekish feats. And today I heard a friend use it. Don’t know whether he or I used it first.
My name comes from Hannah, which I believe means grace. I trip over myself. If my parents knew what it meant, they’d think it a cruel joke.
My name comes from old German, but it’s now commonly French. My middle name means “From France”. How original…I actually have about 20 middle names.
but that’s the one most of my friends know.
OK, I got the meaning of my name. It’s of Irish and Gaelic origin and means hansom. Really, I kid you not.
37- Pongo Twistleton was my favorite, though he’s only mentioned in passing.
happy
glad
joyful
exstatic
joyous
content
happy-go-lucky
pleased
satisfied
blissful
delighted
tickeled
cheerful
beaming
gay
gladsome
lighthearted
sunny
upbeat
jolly
gleeful
jovial
merry
mirthful
elated
exuberant
jubilant
rejoicing
thrilled
hopeful
optimistic
rosy
bright
cheery
overjoyed
my favorite word is ……………
tinntination- meaning the sound of or very like the ringing of bells
30- *accepts the pie* my name is pretty popular. it’s the number one in korean, a deriative from Anne, which mean grace, in english, as well. My brother’s name means small child. Its something to tease him about. My sisters name means either a special mark or treasure.
my favorite word is pneumonoultramicroscopicvolcanoconiosis, i memorized how to spell it in seocond grade, now i can spell it out loud in one breath
my name means forest, by the way
I also like the word Luftwaffe. Its fun. It feels like you have fluff on your tongue when you say it.
Mara, Maria, Marisa, Molly and Mary all mean sea of bitterness. Just so you know.
Musketeer: don’t give her too much crap about her name meaning bitter, cos I suffered through that a lot during my childhood. Of course, I have worse things to contend with now, such as my name being the name of demons and goddesses of death, but it still got to me.
Are you sure that isn’t “sea or bitterness”? I.e., sea in Latin, or bitterness in Hebrew?
50 ~ According to my trusty source, it is, in fact, sea of bitterness. (Just kidding about the trusty source…it’s babynames.com)
ELIZABETH
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: ee-LIZ-a-beth [key]
From Ελισαβετ (Elisabet), the Greek form of the Hebrew name ×ֱלִיש×ֶבַע (‘Elisheva’) meaning “my God is an oath” or perhaps “my God is abundance”. In the Old Testament Elisheba is the wife of Aaron. In the New Testament Elizabeth is the mother of John the Baptist. It was also borne by the 12th-century Saint Elizabeth, a daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary who became a Franciscan nun and lived in poverty. This was also the name of a ruling queen of England and an empress of Russia. Famous modern bearers include the British queen Elizabeth II and actress Elizabeth Taylor.
EBETH was not found in this database.
middle name
ANN
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AN [key]
English form of ANNE (1)
ANNE (1)
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English, German, Scandinavian, Finnish, Basque
Pronounced: AN (English, French), AH-nu (German) [key]
French form of HANNAH. This is the name traditionally assigned to the mother of the Virgin Mary, though she is not mentioned in the Bible. The name was borne by a 17th-century English queen and also by the second wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn (the mother of Queen Elizabeth I), who was eventually beheaded in the Tower of London. This is also the name of the heroine in ‘Anne of Green Gables’ by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery.
doesn’t really say what it means. oh here
The boy’s and girl’s name Ann \a-nn\ is pronounced an. It is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is “favored grace”. Simplified form of Anne, the English form of Hannah. A name favored by royalty and commoners for centuries. Among the royal name bearers: two queens of England, a queen of France, an empress of Russia and, today, Princess Anne of England. Also made popular by L.M. Montogomery’s story “Anne of Green Gables” (1908). Anna is the European form; Anya is Russian. Annie is a pet form; Anouk is a French pet form. Saint Anne (mother of the Virgin Mary); Anne Boleyn, Queen of England; ballerina Anna Pavlova; Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley; actresses Anouk Aimée, Anne Bancroft, Anne Heche, Anna Paquin; writer Ayn Rand; diarist Anne Frank; tennis player Anna Kournikova; golfer Annika Sorenstam.
my last name is a guy’s name and it means precious. god’s promise favored grace precious.
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My name means “dove.” huh.
My favorite word is “replenish.” Words are fun. Everyone knows this by now, but here it is anyway:
“Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.”
fun times…
(51),
I see: Mary = Miriam or Maryam, one possible etymology being Hebrew mar (bitter) plus yam (sea).
Poking around online, I see that it also might mean “strong,” “sea of strength,” “rebellious,” “wished-for child,” “lady,” “beautiful,” or “fat” (at a time when plumpness was considered pretty). The name might even come from an ancient Egyptian root meaning “beloved.” That would make sense, as the first known Miriam was Moses’s sister, who was born in Egypt.
In other words, nobody knows what “Mary” originally meant.
47-err….you left out the silico. it’s pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. And i can spell it twice in a row on one breath. and say it about six times on one breath.
Well, that explains alot. I’m starting to think my parents have precognitive powers. I have extremely poofy hair and my sister has a very short fuse (her name is marisa) I’m not sure about my brother though, Josh. His name aparently means “god is salvation.” Maybe he’ll grow up and find religion. Idk.
As I’m sure Bo would point out, Joshua = Jehoshua = the real Hebrew name (before Latinization) of Jesus.
55-oh man, i’m impressed. you can say things fast. that’s skillage.
49. My cousin actually sees her names “strange” meaning as a super cool thing…so I won’t be the one giving her crap about it…
okay, apparently my name means “Noble, exalted nature” or “son of one who is noble and exalted”. Yay. Except, as any fool knows, I’m not a son.
To confuse things further, thinkbabynames.com defines “Miriam” as “star of the sea”…
And as for “Jeshosha”, I believe it’s closer to “Yeshua” in pronunciation. But I dont speak Aramaic, so who knows?
55 ~ Since I’m home again, I think I really will learn to spell it this time.
Kevin and I can both say the pledge of allegiance in one breath. It’s actually really easy. More in the math geeks thread. I can connect almost anything to either math or something I did at math counts. xD
frog, house, vegetable, potato, koala, hand sanitzer, computer, book, Tarzan, Orlando Bloom, ant, candle, flower, egreegiously sour cabbage, firebreathing toad, excrutionating pain, Leonardo de Vinci, pepper jack cheese, blue gatorade, tounge lashing, steps toward writing a research paper
Look at all these wonderful topics! Lets all pick one and type a random paragraph about that topic. Or you could try to write a paragraph with all the topics. Though I think that would hard.
I want to type one!
Pepper Jack cheese! Oh, Pepper Jack cheese! How I long for Pepper Jack cheese! All peppery, flamablamablously, wonderfully fine! I wish I could have Pepper Jack cheese all the time!
Yay!
My middle name means gracious and my first name means ewe, or lamb.
I personally like lamb better.
Really.
i got out of my grade spelling bee on my first word. POSTMORTEM i spelled it p-o-s-t-m-o-r-d-e-n. (the n at the end was just a careless mistake)
CLARA
Gender: Female
Usage: English, Latin
Pronounced: CLA – ra
The girl’s name Clara \c-la-ra\ is of Latin origin, and its meaning is “famous, brilliant”. Post-classical name from the feminine form of the adjective “clarus”. In the modern English-speaking world, it represents a re-Latinization of the normal English form Clare. Made famous in the 1920s by the silent film actress Clara Bow, known as “the It girl”, because whatever “it” was, she had it.
I totally took this from Ebeth’s post, since it’s my middle name, I’ll use it:
ELIZABETH
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: ee-LIZ-a-beth [key]
From Ελισαβετ (Elisabet), the Greek form of the Hebrew name ×ֱלִיש×ֶבַע (‘Elisheva’) meaning “my God is an oath” or perhaps “my God is abundance”. In the Old Testament Elisheba is the wife of Aaron. In the New Testament Elizabeth is the mother of John the Baptist. It was also borne by the 12th-century Saint Elizabeth, a daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary who became a Franciscan nun and lived in poverty. This was also the name of a ruling queen of England and an empress of Russia. Famous modern bearers include the British queen Elizabeth II and actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Last Name: I’ll try to say the stuff I know about my last name without giving it away. It’s Polish, and it comes from the words (in Polish) for “to squeeze together,” and “penny, small coin.”
59- My brother always did. I was always kinda mad. So my mum made up meanings for it. The fact that “Mara” = “demon/imp” is pretty sweet, so I’m okay with that bit. But I don’t think I’m particularly bitter…and both the name and meaning are so close to my mum’s that it ticks me off.
I guess the fact that she’s always saying “Mary” means “queen of heaven” shouldn’t mean much to me, as I don’t actually believe in heaven, but I fancy the idea of royalty. And a queen my mum ain’t.
~ hermaphrodite
~ literature
~ reverie
~ euphemism
~ pwn
~ ennui
~ Luftwaffe
~ apex
~ geyser
~ Pahoe hoe (pronounced “pah-hoi-hoi”)
~ Nehemiah
~ aurora
~ Danae
~ cynicism
~ euphoria
~ ecstasy
~ absquatulate
~ juxtaposition
~ aristocracy
~ exalted
~ jollification
~ cheery
~ lubricate
~ illusion
~ fantastical
~ rendezvous
~ tranquility
~ changeling
~ vaudeville
~ chaos
~ vertigo
~ twinkle
~ Vivian
~ electrify
~ sanizdat
~ Khrushchev
~ rhapsody
~ void
~ mist
~ Wii
~ thrill
~ Toblerone
~ exuberant
~ exhilarated
~ eminent
~ imp
~ epitome
~ epiphany
~ giggle
~ clairvoyant
~ psychokenetic
~ Trafalgar
That was totally thrilling. I worked on it for like two hours. WHOOHOO!!
only because the newcomer alert said to-WELCOME TO MUSEBLOG, CLYKTOSE!!!!!!
1- Ookay… I dunno if anyone guessed yet… but does it start with a P, G, M, Y or R by any chance?
(61) That site says Alexandra= mankind’s defender. Pff.
My favorite name is Uruha (麗). Sort of pronounced oo-roo-hah but not really. You need to be awesome and roll the “r” sort of and akgjaga it sounds best if you’re fluent in Japanese. This is the name of one of the guitarists of The GazettE. Okay never listened to them but that is easily the most beautiful name to ever be had.
68 – that was a great list of words! Hop over to the Poems & Songs thread and check out my live words assignment. Those would work great!
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=605
My last name is actually meaningless. Fun fact.
Jubal means ‘father of all.’
Eileen means nothing, apparently.
58-yes, I can talk VERY quickly and say a LOT on one breath. sometimes when I’m talking I’ll get carried away and forget to stop and breathe, and i can talk a really long time that way and sometimes my last few words sound kind of squeaky or somethng because I’m running out of air, then i have to stop. But yes, I talk a lot.
My favorite name is Aiobheann (aE-Vaaan) It’s Welsh. It’s awesome.
My name means defender of mankind or something like that. My favorite word is probably lepidoptremy or salisyllic or isoceles or stallion.
75 – I’m part Welsh!!
76: Me too! but not very much. The Welsh language is cool, though.
I’m part irish by a ….. bit. (In case you can’t read that it says “Little”
There are tons of fun words. I have a list of good words to know and definitions, and I would post it except it would make for an extremely long post.
Oh, what the heck. Here it is:
Abase- demean
Abstemious- refraining from eating
Abstruse- perplexing
Acerbity- bitterness of tone
Acumen- skill
Adroit- dexterous, skillful
Antipathy- Dislike
Apathetic- listless
Apex- summit
Apoplectic- angry
Apprise- explain
Askance- doubtfully. sideways
Astral- planetary, solar, astrophysical
Austere- stern
Badinage- playful banter
Bevy- horde
Blithe- amiable
Bower- a shady nook
Brusque- gruff
Cavil- to object to minute points
Censorious- disapproving
Cognizant- aware
Collation- meal
Condign- deserved
Conflagration- fire
Contingency- unforeseen event
Contrition- repentance
Defeatist- pessimistic
Deplorable- despicable
Deprecate- condemn
Despondency- hopelessness
Dichotomy- classification into two groups
Dictum- maxim
Disapprobation- disapproval
Discompose- cause to lose composure
Disport- behave playfully (disport themselves)
Disseminate- distribute
Embolden- encourage
Envisage- envision
Equanimity- calmness
Esoteric- cryptic
Estranged- alienated
Excrescence- outgrowth (ugly)
Febrile- feverish
Forestall- prevent
Furtively- stealthily
Gaucherie- ungainliness
Imbroglio- entanglement
Impede- delay
Imperious- commanding
Impugn- challenge
Indolent- idle
Injudicious- unwise
Innuendo- insinuation
Insouciant- unconcerned
Intrinsic- fundamental
Languorous- lazy
Lissome- quick, graceful
Machinations- schemes
Mercurial- lively
Modicum- scrap (tiny bit)
Nascent- emerging
Nonce- the present time
Onus- burden
Opprobrious- scornful
Palter- act deceitfully
Peon- laborer
Perspicacious- insightful
Perspicacious- wise
Petulance- irritability
Phlegmatic- disinterested
Placid- serene
Presentiment- intuition
Propinquity- proximity
Pulchritudinous- aesthetically pleasing
Pusillanimous- timid
Raiment- formal apparel
Recrimination- allegation
Scourge- curse
Somnambulist- sleepwalker
Superlative- exceptional. words of praise
Supervene- follow/occur unexpectedly
Timbre- character
Transpired- happened
Truculent- argumentative
Ubiquitous- omnipresent
Uncouth- rude
Unremitting- incessant
Zenith- peak
I like the word “pshaw.” My dad says it a lot and so did my Grandpa, and I think it is fun to say.
I also like the word “odd.” It means weird, and I just learned it. I like to say it a lot because I just learned it and it is a really fun word.
My favorite word: Spooney.
The best name ever- Demosthenes.
Mostly cause I like to see people trip over pronouncing it.
My name means “Soldier for God” which is interesting cause im not particularly violent or religious
Angst gets a prize for being the only word i can think of wiht 4 consonants in a row
Several other of my favorites:
Listless (it hisses!)
Travesty
Discontinuance-for being ridiculously long
Unconscionable means unethical-good speech word!
And finally, the most ridiculous z word I could find:
Zoroastrianism- A religion in Persia!
Is no one going to write one of my paragraphs? Fine! Then I will!
Blue Gatorade is an extremely interesting drink. When first sipped, it tastes like a sugary blueberry. After that, it usually tastes just like plain sugar. The most fun thing that happens after you drink Blue Gatorade is that it turns your tongue blue. The not so fun thing is that it turns your waste blue. Blue Gatorade can sometimes be a very strange drink.
If you guys would like to try one of my amazing paragraphs, see post 63.
I love advertising!
I think my name means “wealthy” in somthing or other. Hmm. Not my first choice… I was almost named Lestat or Mookie as a babie.
85- It could be worse. Before picking my name, my parents called me spike-ette.
my name is katie
and i am too lazy to go look up what it means
Ziven is a good name. In means red-haired and frekley, or something : grin :
Kicks ötzi violently. Aoibheann was my favorite first. I believe it is actually Irish, but whatever. spooney makes me laugh. too bad that prank didn’t work… darn LA teacher…
my favorite word right now is homocide. why? because.
and no, my name is not carrie. try “industrious”
My name is defender of the sea, somethingsomethingsomething. I can’t find a good site that gives the meanings.
I could have been Ethyl. Wait–I am.
I have four nephews and a niece, all with Z-names and last initial D. Z-D5, or Z5, we call them.
89: you’re just jealous because I have about 9 middle names!!!
My name is Hannah. It’s a palindrome so I like that. I think it means grace or something…
My name means Serenity. I think it does at least. See if you can guess it! oh yeah and my favorite word is.. lets see… oh yeah! My favorite word is nincompoop. don’t you love it?
oh yeah and i always say: rambunctiously weird! rambunctiously cool! it’s so rambunctously like wow!
and did i tell you my name is kathryn?
I khow a reasonablly arrogant umm… first-grader, anyway, his name is Thorbeiogn or something. It means Thor bear.
^_^
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EP Technicaly is a good word, and can be used to great effect to annoy people. For instance, whenever someone makes a statement, say yes, but technically…
in english class, we had to do “how to” speeches (believe me 2 weeks of sitting through speeches is BORING!!!!!!!) but anyway someone did a speech on how to memorize long words… his example was “pneumonultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” and apparently it worked because it was stuck in my head for like a week. seriously, to the tune of every song I heard “pneu-mon-ultraaaaa.. etc, etc.” sad.
and my other favorite word is “hyperpolysylabicsesquepedalionistasysm” i’ve never seen it written down so I hav no idea if i spelled it right….
56 — u must play a wind instrument …. i play flute and i cant say it that many times… i am practicing, tho!!! i hav the idea that i may hav sum kind of wierd “circular breathing” thing becuz i breath without realizing it. hmm….
pneumonultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!
I like the words kerfuffle and gubernatorial. I don’t know how to spell either one…
(101) And yet your spelling is impeccable.
100-most people don’t realize that they’re breathing. Circular breathing is something different, and it’s insanely hard. believe me, i’ve tried. i knew a guy who could do it though, my trumpet teacher person at blue lake. he was sweet at it.
What’s circular breathing? By-and-by, I play clarinet.
^_^
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People who get to name medical conditions have a really fun job. Take Hippomonstrosesquippedaliaphobia- the fear of long words.
Come on! We need more takers for my awesome paragraphs! Be CREATIVE! Does no one love me?
when you visit a frog at his house, always remamber to bring a vegetable of some sort as a gift, because frogs like most vegetables. They don’t like potatoes, however, so give those to the koalas instead. In return, the koalas will probably give you a large bottle of hand sanitizer, which you should always use before touching a computer or reading a book, especially one about Tarzan or Orlando Bloom. If you don’t, you might get infected by ants, and then you would have to light a candle with a flowery scent to get rid of them. Otherwise they may get into the egregiously sour cabbage, which will turn them all into firebreathing toads, which can cause excruciating pain. Leonardo de Vinci liked pepper jack cheese and blue gatorade, although i highly doubt the latter existed in his lifetime.
16- your name is emily
hehe
kathryn/blue dude- if your name actualy is kathryn than it means pure…. i think…. but in the names dictionairy i have it’s spelled katharine (yourname not mine)
if any of you are named andrea, it means manly…..
my favorite word is KAG kidding i actualy love the word cespool
cesssssspooooool hehe fun to say
oh clarification on that last post…i said something about my name and then delited it…. from knowing that can anyone guess what my name is?
Sweet. Me llamo Sarah too. (Princesses rule!)
My middle name is Grace. Guess what that means.
OK so on words: I found out something really cool. The latin for “to bear” is related to ferre, which comes from pherein. Being an LOTR fanatic, I knew that the elvish word for “hobbit” is Pherein as well. So hobbit= “to bear or carry”, i.e., to bear or carry the Ring.
Tolkein really knew his stuff.
Almost forgot
A good website for names and meanings (for those of you who haven’t already found it) is “Behind the Name.” It’s at: behindthename.com
107- I love that post! ^_^
111- hee hee, allready found it long ago! ’tis a good site! yay for princeses! I’m named Sarah but I go by Sally, which confuses many people as a good number don’t know it’s a nickname for Sarah.
107 wicked sweet!
111 my parents used it 4 my name
sally? Really? cool.
Also there is:
Saara
Sarita
Sarika
Zarita (my favorite)
Saranna
Kala
Moreen
75 and 89- Aoibheann is Irish. It is actually my middle name!
How is that pronounced? Something like “AV’n,” I imagine. The Irish love silent consonants and vowels.
I once knew an Irish-American woman whose middle name was Siobhan, pronounced, approximately, “shuh-VON.” That seemed to me very exotic, though I’ve since learned that Siobhan is a fairly common name in Ireland.
I pronounce it Aveen, which I think is correct. I’ll have to ask my parents.
Maybe more like “even.” I think I’ve seen “aoi” turn into a long-e sound. Anyway, it’s a beautiful-looking name, and it will be interesting to know how to pronounce it.
Whoops, maybe. My mom said it could be pronounced “avonn” (or somthing like that).
Anyway, as long as I don’t have to pronounce it in front of people who know how to really say it, I’ll be fine. XD I can just spell it, and look mysterious…
116- I know someone with that name, and another who spells it Chavonne but it’s pronounced the same.
My name is almost completely meaningless.
92-They rejoice in the names of Zolya, Zhenya, Zebulon, Zalyzin, and Zoya. Hey, people will always be convinced they are using their real names.
My two favorite real-life names: Aurelia Bumbutt and Private Parts.
My name means downy bearded/ youthful. I’m a girl.
My favorite names are LeiLani, Emma, Giselle, and Celeste.
Um, my name is Red-tailed HAWK and it means, er, a type of hawk. heheh, I don’t want to really say my real name. 122-I once knew somebody named Emma, but not those other ones.
Words… So you just sort of post about words you like? hmmm…
The HAWK
may hae said this earlier in the thread ages ago but i’m too lazy to check, so:
my first name is, as you probably guessed, Emma, which may mean ‘whole, universal, or complete’ or it could mean grandmother or ancestress. my middle name is Sophia, which means wisdom. The Emma is after my great-grandfather Edwin and the sophia is after my great-great-grandmother Sophie….
my favorite names other than those are Rebecca and Claire.
I love words! but i have to go now. I’ll tell all my many favorite words and my 11 least favorite words later….
123-I think everyone i know knows someone named Emma.
My least favorite words:
acquaint
contagious
shoal
coral
pedestal
regatta
pridian
satire
catenate
gluttony
vertiginous
My favorite words:
echolalia!!!!!!
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
humuhumunukunukuapuaa (I just discovered that one. it’s the state fish of hawaii)
inglenook
thwack
hypocorism
defenestration
sciapodous
logogriph
can’t think of any more off the top of my head….
Thwack is a great word. So is defenestration.
Let’s see. My name means, to quote the baby name book, “Noble, Nobility,” along with Hannah and Adelaide. My middle name means- Well, gosh, I don’t even know how to spell it. It’s French. I looked it up; it means “cart”. I’m a noble cart.
My favorite (other than mine) names are:
Araminta
Arabella
Adelaide
Esmerelda
Martha
Sophie
Bess
Anne
Fiona
Anastacia
Penelope
Kitty
Elfrida
Louis
Francis
Peter
My favorite words are:
Et cetera
Armadillo
Nautical
Serpentine
Myriad
Plethora
And some more that I can’t remember.
Oh my gosh, I forgot FLUMMERY!
And since I’m listening to the radio and just heard this word,
tesseract
some more words:
supercalifragilisticexpealidocious
playwright
punjabi
jabberwock
lyre
My favorite words:
defenestration
hippopatamus
vindictive
futile
fraternizing
pomplemous(french for grapefruit i believe)
viniculum (the bar in a fraction) (our math class named it Vinnie)
(129) Close, grnqween2011, it’s “pamplemousse.” That’s one of my favorite words as well. “Framboise,” raspberry, is nice, too. I just like the feel of saying it.
130-How do you pronounce that? Pam-pel-mouse? Pam-pel-moose?
130-I like the sound and the feel of saying words from french, but I hate them in spelling. French is one of the hardest languages to spell.
OMG! language! i have to add that to my list of words that use u as a consonant!
pamp-le-moose
(131) Almost. More like “pompla-moose.”
(132) Actually, I love the way French is spelled. I just love the way the words look. Though it is easier to pronounce from the spelling than it is to spell from the hearing. Gaelic, on the other hand…yikes…but oh, so lovely to look at!
I like Spanish. It’s such an easy and sort of “flowing” language, you know what I mean?
134-That’s because you aren’t a speller. I think most spellers hate French. It’s evil.
135-spanish is almost perfectly phonetic. except when it’s anglicized, but it’s still pretty easy. DEFINITELY easier than french.
136-What’s a speller? French isn’t evil. If you know the rules, it’s actually quite simple. Try figuring out how to spell words in English. The rules have no meaning whatsoever! Gasp!
Rosanne, I’m surprised you didn’t mention our word for umbrella.
(136) Au contraire. Although I never competed — when I was growing up I thought spelling bees were something out of history books — I love to spell. And I really do like spelling French. Old French, too. And Old English. Maybe it’s the challenge. Or maybe it’s because I take pleasure in learning the history the spellings represent. The oddities are souvenirs picked up from their travels.
137-someone who competes in spelling bees, basically.
138-HISTORY BOOKS?!? no! there’s a national spelling bee very year since 1925! except not in 1934, 1944, 1945 i think cause of WWII. but otherwise every year.
I’m just randomly wandering and pointlessly posting here. I saw the phrase au contraire and I thought of the song. I can think of other weird words in songs. Contrecoup, for example. I learned three or four words from that, including the title. Contrecoup, limerent, phrenology, craniosophic. It’s not a bad song either. And French confuses me. You only say like half the letters in the word, and the letters don’t match up with the sounds.
140-that’s why it’s hard for spellers. and it has too many vowels. which makes it even worse than german, which has too many consonants.
German spelling is practically phonetic, though. It’s right up there with Spanish in that respect, and much easier than French.
French is hard to spell, but when you speak it it sounds beautiful
42-agreed that it’s easier than French. just about everything is. It can be tricky, though. For one thing, languages like spanish and german that are phonetic before they come into English re sometimes not so much after, because some words are anglicized to fit english spelling and some arent. for example, in German the v sound is spelled with a w, but in some words from german get changed when they come into engllish, so an anglicized german word the v sound could be spelled with a v or a w. In the 2006 natioanl spelling bee, the girl who got second place (Finola Hackett) went out on a german word.
Sorry for maybe double post, but:
143-spelling is more important than speaking anyway.
also, in my last post i meant to say 142.
I grok English and I understand Italian pronunciation. Everything else I don’t get much, but I’ve had to sing French and German. I prefer German, I think, but I don’t know either really at all.
146-you WHAT english? *runs to dictionary* oh. I think i hve heard that before actually. froody word. Why do you prefer german? I would think French would be better for singing, cause it sounds nicer. I don’t really like the way germa soudns.
If you’re talking about French being hard, try Greenlandic! The most commonly used letter is Q, I think. Just Q, no U or anything. Double vowels, double consonants in the wrong places…
Maybe I’m exaggerating a bit, but that’s what it seems like.
What’s grok mean?
148-are there any words from Greenlandic in english though? i’ll have to research that. For grok, try the dictionary. people don’t use the dictionary nearly enough.
149- I use the dictionary all the time! In fact, my motto is, “The dictionary is your friend”, taken from a time when I hated it. Probably because even for a book like The Hobbit, I had to look up every third word.
I want to be in a spelling bee! When I was ten, I won second place in the county fair spelling bee, but since then I’ve either been too scared or haven’t cared enough. Sigh.
Nobody’s read Stranger in a Strange Land??? grok- to understand something completely, enough to become it, or something like that
151: sounds like Ender’s Game to me! Ender grokked the buggers.
the name Arianhrod is comprised of the welsh elements arian (silver) and rhod (wheel), hence, “silver wheel”
if anyone cares
My real name means “wealthy.” Not really the trait I most admire. Oh well.
My short-name, Eva, is an abbreviation for extravehicular activity.
My full name, Evangeline, was apparently (according to my mother and now an online dictionary) invented by a writer/poet (or whatever sort of writing he did) named H.W. Longfellow.
Isn’t that lovely…
I like Aeiou’s name…
How did everyone wind up talking about spelling?! o.0
Aah!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow!
I had to learn The Village Blacksmith once. I bet I can still recite it, but not here.
How do you pronounce Aeiou’s name, anyways?
Aw-ee-oh?
^.- That’s a good question…
^^; Henry Wadsworth Longellow indeed… wrote about a woman who was seperated from the man she loved or something and spent her whole life helping people and looking for him and when she found him they were both old and he died. ^.- Basically. Right? I think it was unfair for her to give me that name, although I must say I prefer it to the originally threated Bertha…
I mean, would you rather go by Bertha or Evie, really?
^^; NOoooooooooo more long pointless paragraphs…
(157) Evie is definitely nicer. Do you say it with a long or short “e”?
I once had to play a character named Bertha. She was matron of a school for wayward teenage girls. Says it all.
On a brighter note, the show was a murder mystery and she got offed by poison. I had major fun with the death scene. Wearing bunny slippers was the best part, though.
Did you wear the bunny slippers during the death scene?!
Huh… long or short… (I would lose at the new Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader show…) what the diff?! T_T
o.O Skating clown!
With awesome Italian or something music…
The bunny slippers definitely starred in the death scene. In fact, I wore pajamas and hair curlers for the whole show.
I meant “e” as in “evening” or as in “evermore.” I’ve heard both, and I like to think I’m pronouncing MBers’ names correctly in my head, whether they know it or not.
Hey, I once got killed in a murder mystery play, too. It was “Spider’s Web” by Agatha Christie, performed by a community theater troupe in Cairo, Egypt, of all places. I played a menacing lowlife who got brained with a golf club and spent the rest of the act lying on the floor with my legs sticking out from behind a sofa. While I was still hale, hearty, and whole-headed, however, I got to stamp around threatening the innocent heroine, played (I discovered years later) by Nancy Kangas’s first cousin. It’s a small world.
All of which has nothing to do with the name Bertha.
Evening, then… like Evee. The adorable pokemon. No matter what stupid prejudist people say. ^^; Sorry.
…evening has both forms of ‘e’ in it, doesn’t it…
Yaaaaay for bunny slippers and their involvement in murders! (It was them that set you up, wasn’t it?!)
That has EVERYTHING to do with the name of Bertha. There’s a wung named Bertha in Cairo Egypt after all; she was probably there. 0.-
The truth about Robert comes out, Oh Lowlife.
Unless the truth was ALREADY out, in which case yet another newbie has discovered the secret which the oldie’s had hidden!
Unless it wasn’t hidden and just so obvious it wound up overlooked.
…
Yeaaaaaaaah…
Evie shuts up now.
Is it boring playing a dead person?
In my case, it was peaceful but uncomfortable lying on the stage floor. Fortunately, only my legs were visible to the audience, so at least I could scratch my nose when it itched. Lady Bunniful may have had a different experience.
164- that’s awesome! I especially like Lady Bunniful’s slippers and that you were in the show with Nancy Kangas’ cousin. Small world…
(163, 164) Actually being dead was a fun challenge — I basically put myself into a trance to keep from moving. I kept my eyes open really wide – which kind of freaked out my fellow cast members until they got used to it.
My death also involved a sofa, though I was sitting on it in plain view of the audience until the other less-than-observant characters in the play figured out Bertha had croaked. Then they mercifully covered me with a sheet for the remainder of the act. Scratching was still out of the question, however.
I do rather pity the earlier murder victim whose lap I was draped across. Not to mention the boy who had to carry my 5’11” self offstage.
5’11”- you are my hero Rebecca.
^^ That sounds fun. If I were forced into acting somehow, I’d want to be someone who gets killed off. (Not as good at playing dead as a hognose, though… *coughcough*)
I got to cry over someone dead in a musical. I was Peter Pan in Peter Pan, and I had to cry over Tinkerbell. It took TB and I a long time to get through that scene without laughing!
Poor Tink.
That is so symbolism of how Jesus rose from the dead… (jk jk… well, if you wanted to you could see it that way… I don’t…)
^^; yeah yeah mourning someone whose not really dead is soo funny… (It is, actually…)
…sorry I think I’m in a cynical mood just now…
I was in a play once. It was Theseus, and I only had one line, even though I was in a few scenes.
The other play I was in didn’t have anything as interesting as death. It was about conformity.
Lady B. has asked me to post this picture of her bunny slippers:
I don’t mean to be a spoilsport, but we’re straying rather far from the topic of Words and Names.
…well, Robert, would it helped if we named the bunny slippers?
I intuit that that is inevitable.
^^ Hur-ray for the inevitable, eh?
Um… anyone else think that Left Bunny looks like a Tuna-face?
I think Tuna-face would make a nice name for a bunny slipper…
(172) “…straying rather far from the topic…” On MuseBlog? Shocking.
Ta muchly, though, for the post.
(173) Good save, Evie!
^^; Thanks?
Apologies to Rebecca (Lady B?) for attempting to name a bunny slipper Tuna-face…
(178) No apology necessary. That may explain why the cats were so fond of it . . . .
MB has a tradition of giving nicknames to visiting adults. In my preGAPA days, I contributed some rather twisted HPB variations for which the blog nicknamed me “Lady Bunniful.”
(How about that, Robert! Back on topic, Words and Names.)
Totaaaaaaally on topic…
^^; Ah, cats… and tuna… and bunnies… and faces… and tuna. o.0
Lady Bunniful…
How do names have any worth? If no matter what, there is someone or something with your name out there in the world it doesn’t stand for you. It stands for nothing. Names are worthless but we’re worthless without them.
Is that on topic? Does that make sense? How easily disproven are my previous childish statements?
179- No, actually The Bard supports you, at least on the names front. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet has a whole monologue on the topic. Ever heard “That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet?”
Sometimes when I look at my name in writing, it looks weird and not-mine. Specially in calendars on my birthday, when it’s right next to the age I’m going to turn.
180- Sweet.
Yay for Shakespear.He gets it.
…however as he’s dead that does me little good… but other people agree too I think…
179- Well, but how many people are there with your whole name, first, middle and last? And your nicknames?
But yeah, you’re right.
I’m off to google my name and see what turns up.
When I google my name I get 921 hits.
When I google my name with my middle name, I get zero hits.
183-There are definitely lost of people with my first and last name. Googling my first, middle, and last name in quotes, I discovered the was someone with my name who died about 50 years ago. And nothing of me if I include my middle name.
183- Ya never know, do ya? Besides, there could be someone generations ago or generations from now with the same combo…
I mean, after all, most kid’s names are combined from their family right?
I tried to find my cousin’s death date so I could make a Memorial sort of bulletin for him (:'() And I looked up both his first+middle+last name combined… the middle was screwy, true, but there was someone from the 1800’s with the same first and last name… (probably related to us…)
^^; When I googled my name I found a nice movie… well I enjoyed it anyway… it was about two girls that fall in love… one’s nickname was Evie… or Evee, but the page I found it on was Evie…
^^; SORRY- long pointless post again.
184- Wow- what’s your middle name?
…scary I just found someone who had the same first and middle name I do…
186-There seems to be a movie with a character with my name too. But I haven’t watched it.
…dang there are a LOT of people with the same first+middle name combo as me…
189- Does it not look any good or you just haven’t watched it? I looked the one I found up on youtube… was amazed it was there. ^.-
I have seriously got to try and marry that trombone player at my school now, because if I did with my new last name I would officially have the same exact name as someone else. o.0
when I google my name, I get 106 hits. All but two are of me, i believe. There’s a woman in Brazil who has my first and last name as her middle names..
191-I haven’t read much about it, but it’s not something i ever would have heard of if I hadn’t seen it when i googed myself. And the character with my name drowns, so….not really something i want to watch.
193- Oooo what’s it called?
Maybe I’ll watch it and tell ya if it’s any good.
192- Wow. Weird. You have 104 mentions on the web…? …why?
194-but then you’d know my name.
195- Point taken. Darn.
185- Someone with my name died in 1848!
187- Should I tell you? It’s very uncommon; you might be able to find me with it.
None of the hits are me, I think. I didn’t actually look at 921 hits, so I can’t be sure.
When I look up my first and middle name without my last name, there are four hits.
One’s in French, translated, it says the woman with my name died in 05.
One is really confusing, but it says the woman with my name was born in 1912.
The other two are about people who married someone with my name.
I’m named after Alice in Wonderland, I think, and my middle name is the middle name of my great-grandmother.
Or maybe she died in 1912.
197
Alice in Wonderland, eh?
That’s better than being named after Evangeline from Longfellow’s story… or maybe not. At least people don’t KNOW about the evangelican story… ^^;
199- There are other reasons for being named Alice, too. I think my mom just liked the name.
There’s a highly annoying boy I know who always gets my name wrong on purpose.
I am soured towards Longfellow.
I’ve heard of it. I think it was in Half Magic, by Edward Eager.
Wow, googling my name I only get one hit… and IT’S ME! I feel so unique.
200- There used to be a boy in my history class who somehow convinced everyone my name was Veronica. There is absolutely no way you could confuse my name with Veronica. It was extremely annoying.
201-whoa. you must have an unusual name.
People sometimes call me Emily, which is rather annoying. Many people thin that Emma is just short for Emily, which isn’t true, it’s a real name by itself, and I think it’s actualy more common than Emily now…for little kids at least….
If i google my first and last name along with the word spelling, the first 3 things are me! Yay!
194- I play violin. I compete.
203-you compete in violin?
202- Not really. I just have a pretty rare first name and a pretty rare middle name, which makes it very unlikely many people would have the same combination. I get a lot more hits if I just use my first and las names, though the first two are still me.
BTW, I love the bunny slippers.
203- that’s awesome.
Never did name Tuna-face’s brother… or is it sister…?
And no one did agree upon the naming of the left side one Tuna-face…
If I google my name with quotes around it, nothing comes up. Without quotes 150,000. Mainly that’s just for my middle and last name together, as I have a fairly uncommon first name. The rest of the results are like
Meghan went to the store with her friends Margaret and they then went home. There she met her friend’s dad Mr. Smith . The bold names would be my first, middle , and last name respectively. That isn’t my name, I used false ones so it wouldn’t get zapped. When I search nothing is actually me.
My name is very simple. Margaret-Pearl (funny thing is that my birthstone is a pearl) and middle name is Mary-either Star of the Sea or bitter. My last name is kind of unusual because it’s Czech (my great-grandfather was Czech).
Does anyone know how to pronounce Eira? It’s Welsh for “snow” and I love it, except, I’m not sure how to say it.
Um, maybe something like eye-ruh? Or maybe eh-ruh or eh-rah or eye-rah?
207-that’s the problem with googling names without quotes. when i do it i oftn find lists of people, and there’s one person with my first name then several people further down the list theres one with my last name….
209-i would say EE-ruh but that’s probably wrong. I know very little about welsh pronunciations.
I found it on a website. It means ‘snow’ and in North Wales it’s pronounced ay-ra and in South Wales it’s pronounced eye-ra.
I decided it was:
Eye-ruh
Ee-ruh
Ay-ruh
Air-uh
Only I couldn’t decide which, so I aked my little sister to pick, and she said Eye-ruh. And we’re writing a book together, so I went with that.
When I google my name, with quotes, I get anywhere from for 3-8 results, and they are all me!
There’s no mention of me on the web at all! Is this good or bad?
Well, whatever it is, someday I’ll publish a book.
I have, for some strange reason become obsessed with the name RavenHawk. Anybody else like it? hmmmm….Maybe I should google it
216- I’ve never even heard of it.
This thread seems dead and gone. Or rather, dead and still here. To revive it, I suggest we all visit the baby name wizards namevoyager.
My name was number 15 in the 1890s, 11, in the 1900s, 13, in the 1910s, 15 in the ’20s, 22 in the ’30s, 41 in the ’40s, 85 in the ’50s, 144 in the ’60s, 240 in the ’70s, 336 in the ’80s (eep, the eighties!), 407 in the nineties, 426 in 2003, 405 in 2004, and 414 in 2005.
It’s also a boy’s name, that was “not in the top 1000 in any decade.” What a a surprise.
216- The name Ravenhawk is not to be found. However, Raven has experienced a surge of popularity as a girl’s name in the past forty or so years.
218: I found a similar database at the Social Security Administration’s website, under “Popular Baby’s Names”. But woah! Your site is much awesomer! My name, Amelia, is in a big curve. It was #120 in the 1890s, decreased to #442 in the 60s, and is now on the rise again, back up to #84. All-time high, woot!
219- I found it in an old Muse.
We should have a Words and Names, v. 2007.2.
Could you please make one, GAPAs?
I second 221
does anyone know what these word mean?
vagaries
epicures
erogenous
throes
propinquity
ministations
lapidary
itinerant
fey
laud
prescient
palpitant
brunt
garret
abattoirs
pariah
cull
obdurate
garrulous
abstemiously
tabulating
prestidigitated
detrius
dolorous
fecund
aberrant
subversive
I found them all in one book. i take a blank sheet of paper, write a quote on one side, leave it blank on the other side, and use it as a bookmark and write down words i don’t know on the blank side. I think it helps.
122- I know what some of them mean, but I’m not gonna go through the list.
Why do I feel that we need a new thread? Hmm, I wonder. *looks up at sky thoughtfully*
I think we need a new thread too. This one is long, and dead. DEAD I SAY!!!! A new thread would raise awareness. And it would help those writers who need a good name. Like me.
Yes! A new thread would be great! After all, what’s 75 posts more or less?
Please, GAPAs?
Can you just WAIT like I always have to??? Man. Somehow it’s the nice people who don’t try to boss the GAPAs around who never get what they want around here.
Do NOT say this: ATM Machine.
Whoa, I just saw-Alice herself didn’t even come around this thread for like 18 days!!!
227- Huh? You mean I shouldn’t have asked for a new one? Just waited? I did. But after a while I got bored of waiting.
228- I came, but I always left again because no one had posted.
“Bored of waiting”??? Strange way to say it…actually, interesting.
Anyway, maybe our posts will bring people back to this one.
(230) Actually, there is a more recent edition:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=856
I just saw that. Why do we have two? I noticed because I knew the one I THOUGHT this one was had the ♥ at the top!