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At 11:09 06.11.97 -0600, you wrote:
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>> *Bible Studies*......It's been estimated that the majority of people in
>> the Western hemisphere have names based on biblical ones.
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>My cat Psalms obviously has a name from the Bible, as does my wife
>Sara.  My name is just English (I guess).  My son's name (Ian) is a
>Gaelic form of John; it's also a Japanese word, meaning "peace."
>
I used to have 5 birds (2 died) named, Moses, Zipporah, Aaron and
Miriam...and David (he's a canary)...Our sixth bird is named Rocky...hehe
my daughter's idea. We used to have a gerbil named Rachel. My daughters
names are Sharon and Sabrina (which is Latin), my brother's name is
Michael. My Dad's name is Rudolf (if I remember correctly, someone once
told me that back then in '34 everybody in Germany named their babies
either Adolf [after Hitler] or Rudolf [after Rudolf Hess]...I got stuck
with a Greek name Doris, meaning "bountiful" (I just looked that up). Doris
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