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Help[Opinions] Re: Jeanne-d'Arc
in reply to a message by I like old names
Would it ever get the French pronunciation? Jeanne is OK, though I prefer the English (and fem) Jean; d'Arc will swiftly turn into Dark, which might or might not work. I don't think most people, including most Catholics, would consider it, especially as a fn.
As for the fn + ln ... today I was looking for something else, as one does, in a useful list of South African deaths - not all of them by any means, but a pretty good reference source if you're lucky. And there, born in the 1920s with an unremarkable ln, was one Cecil Rhodes LN. Cecil could be anyone and was my dad, but Cecil Rhodes just screams British Empire Enthusiast, and at a time when Rhodes himself had been dead for decades. Interesting. So it can happen!
As for the fn + ln ... today I was looking for something else, as one does, in a useful list of South African deaths - not all of them by any means, but a pretty good reference source if you're lucky. And there, born in the 1920s with an unremarkable ln, was one Cecil Rhodes LN. Cecil could be anyone and was my dad, but Cecil Rhodes just screams British Empire Enthusiast, and at a time when Rhodes himself had been dead for decades. Interesting. So it can happen!
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