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It sounds really odd to me. The fact it means "name" is unsettling, as if the fact that it's at the root of the word "semite".

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Funny, actually not funny story. Some friends of my grandparents had named a son Shem and a daughter Abigail outof eccentricity, which in Italy and especially at the time were utterly bizarre names. Enter the 1938 racial laws, and Shem and his sister had the hardest time proving that they had received these names because of their father' eccentricity, and no, they were not Jewish.

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- Formerly known as Murasaki-

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Some thoughts and recipes

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http://italianlaowaigirl.blogspot.com/

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http://lagerusalemmecucinata.blogspot.com/