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[Opinions] Names of Algerian twin girls

by Fiammetta (lady murasaki)

11/10/2017, 1:52 AM

There was a story on yahoo about conjoined twin girls who were separated surgically in a hospital in Rome, and and are now doing well. Their names are Rayene and Djihene. I'm not really sure about the pronounciation, though the names look like they might rhyme?

"We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't like that really, I mean...one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold...d'you see what I mean?”
John LeCarré

#twins

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- XironDarkstar

11/12/2017, 12:01 PM

Rayene is sort of cute, it reminds me of Renee or Rhiannon which I like.

Djihene is okay, it makes me think of Diane or Dean.

- foxgloves

11/10/2017, 5:38 AM

that's cute. rhyming names for twins are cute if they sound different otherwise. those both are very graceful sounding names too. glad they're doing well.

- Felie +1

11/10/2017, 2:49 AM

Hi Fiammetta !!!

Yes they probably rhymes.

Dj- is the common spelling of sound 'j' in Morocco and Algeria.
The -ene ending is influenced by French imo.

Infact the most common forms are Rayyan and Jahan.

- Fiammetta (lady murasaki)

11/10/2017, 6:18 PM

Thanks for the explaination! I'm wondering if the -ene ending depends on how they transcribed the names from Arabic?

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