Wednesday, November 18, 2009

All about me

BRITTANY
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRIT-nee, BRIT-ə-nee [key]
From the name of the region in the northwest of France, called in French Bretagne. It was named for the Briton settlers who fled to that area after the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England. As a given name, it first came into common use in America in the 1970s.
ALEJANDRA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ah-le-HAHN-drah [key]
Spanish form of ALEXANDRA
SALVADOR
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: sahl-bah-DHOR [key]
From the Late Latin name Salvator, which meant "saviour". A famous bearer of this name was the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.
JENNIFER
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JEN-i-fər [key]
From a Cornish form of the Welsh name Gwenhwyfar (see GUINEVERE). This name has only been common outside of Cornwall since the beginning of the 20th century, after it was featured in George Bernard Shaw's play 'The Doctor's Dilemma' (1906).

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