BS: Peoples names

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 11:25 AM

G'day Bruce. G'day Shiela.

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:42 AM

If everyone was called "Bruce" it would save a LOT of confusion....

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Azizi
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:32 AM

"Anona"- "probaby from "Annona", the Latin goddess of the annual yield of fruits or produce.

[source: Winthrop Ames-"What Shall We Name The Baby" {Pocket Books, 1963; originally published in 1941]

Fwiw,I've found older books on names have the meanings of more currently non-standard names than contemporary books.

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:11 AM

I think that Nonno and Nonna are Italian words for Grandfather and Grandmother, so it could be Granny James. It could also be a contraction of Anona, as in Anona Wynn for those in the UK old enough to remember 20 Questions with Gilbert Harding.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Alice
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:56 AM

Where's the thread about Nonny James?

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Azizi
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:52 AM

What sort of name is "Nonny"?

Thanks for asking.

Nona {Latin}-the ninth {implying the ninth born child, if that child is a girl}; in Roman mythology, Nona was the name of one of the three Fates who spun the thread of life.

In compliance with the once ubiquitous practice of adding "ie" or "y" to personal names to create nicknames, "Nonny" & "Nonnie" are frequently used nicknames for "Nona".

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And since this is a music forum, though it probably has nothing to do with the personal name "Nonny", here's a 'Shakespearian' song that includes the refrain "hey nonny nonny nonny" . I can also think of at least one children's song that uses that same refrain...

"Sigh No More, Ladies..."
(From "Much Ado about Nothing")
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh nor more;
    Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea and one on shore,
    To one thing constant never;
       Then sigh not so,
       But let them go,
    And be you blithe and bonny;
Converting all your sounds of woe
    Into. Hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no mo,
    Or dumps so dull and heavy;
The fraud of men was ever so,
    Since summer first was leavy.
       Then sigh not so,
       But let them go,
    And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
    Into. Hey, nonny, nonny.

http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/shakespeare/sigh_no_more_ladies.html

And, those interested in the meaning of non-standard names may want to check out this website: http://www.cocojams.com/names.htm

I visit it every day.

:o)

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:36 AM

Well, when you want to stop them from doing something you can yell, "Hey, Nonny! Nonny! No!"

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:07 AM

Seriously though, what sort of a name is Nonny ?


eric

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Paul Burke
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 08:09 AM

I knew a guy who registered his daughter as Sweetie-Pie Electra Violet. He was a pillock.

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 08:08 AM

Well, Zowie changed his name to Joe, didn't he?

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 08:07 AM

Wonder what Peaches, Fifi Tryxiebell and Heavenly Hanara Tiger-Lily Geldoff will get up to in later life?

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: GUEST,Nelie Clatt
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 08:00 AM

No need to get personal John.

Subject: RE: BS: Peoples names
From: John O'L
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:47 AM

Thus spake Nellie Clatt

Subject: BS: Peoples names
From: GUEST,Nellie Clatt
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:39 AM

Reading that thread about Nonny James I thought, what a fucking stupid name, how can you take anything seriously from someone called ' Nonny ' and then I remembered another TV presenter called ' Jonty ' and then one from wayback called ' Bunty ' and I came to the realisation that people with stupid names live up to their stupidity and all of them wherever they are should be killed immediately.