Is he related to Johnny Two Times from GoodFellas?
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Is having a second first name very common in general?
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Okay, so I did a Google search and learned the name Snodgrass comes from Scotland....small world, huh?
Hold up...why is it showing that you’re quoting me on that? I didn’t post that. Heck, I’m an only child...I’m nobody’s older brother!
I don’t know. That is weird.
I was quoting a post by ghost19
My Mom was mean me and my sisters. All have first name starting with J and middle starting with M...So growing up we were all JMR..
I had a roommate like that in collage. She and her two sisters all had first names starting with the same letter and the same middle name. Weird!
I went to school with boys who all had SH names...Shawn, Shane, Shad and Shelby.
I always thought that was funny but I have laughed at myself more than once, we did practically the same thing with 3 of our 4....Brandon, Evan, Alison...only Ty escaped. But not really, because his middle name is Allen.
I always thought that was funny but I have laughed at myself more than once, we did practically the same thing with 3 of our 4....Brandon, Evan, Alison...only Ty escaped. But not really, because his middle name is Allen.
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I was named after two of my mom’s sisters.
Anna Marie and Anna. Seriously....15 kids and they reused names?
Anna was from first wife. She had left home and joined a convent, possibly before Anna Marie was born.
In my dad’s family all the boys have the name Joseph as their first name....except one of the twins. Apparently they thought giving twins the same name was wrong. The only one in the family who actually was called Joe....the twin with that name. All the others went by their middle names. Well, except the other twin, who also went by his first name.
Anna Marie and Anna. Seriously....15 kids and they reused names?
Anna was from first wife. She had left home and joined a convent, possibly before Anna Marie was born.
In my dad’s family all the boys have the name Joseph as their first name....except one of the twins. Apparently they thought giving twins the same name was wrong. The only one in the family who actually was called Joe....the twin with that name. All the others went by their middle names. Well, except the other twin, who also went by his first name.
I irked off my entire family by NOT giving my son the "James" first name. He would have been 5th generation, James Blue, James Otto, James Elmer, James Shannon...yeah that's enough of that crap. What, are we English lords or something? What has our family done that's that cool enough to warrant giving all boys the same first name? Oh yeah, I remember now.....NOTHING...lol The kid got his own full name and no stupid family expectations about continuing the silly first name thing....
Is his middle name Alien!!!I went to school with boys who all had SH names...Shawn, Shane, Shad and Shelby.
I always thought that was funny but I have laughed at myself more than once, we did practically the same thing with 3 of our 4....Brandon, Evan, Alison...only Ty escaped. But not really, because his middle name is Allen.
Allen.Is his middle name Alien!!!
Different spelling of Alan.
I mean, it'd be a lot cooler if you WERE English lords...
Agreed, that would be pretty boss....lol I'd like to own land and stuff, that would rock.
I don't feel like starting a whole new thread about this, but are French last names very common in the US? I can't think of many American celebrities who have French last names.
But SK uses them from time to time, mostly with an English first name: Andy Dufresne (Shawshank Redemption), Gordie Lachance and Teddy Duchamp (The Body) and Eduard Delacroix (The Green Mile).
Or is it just his way of thinking of 'exotic sounding' names?
But SK uses them from time to time, mostly with an English first name: Andy Dufresne (Shawshank Redemption), Gordie Lachance and Teddy Duchamp (The Body) and Eduard Delacroix (The Green Mile).
Or is it just his way of thinking of 'exotic sounding' names?
I think they are more common is certain areas. Eduard Delacroix was Cajun from South Louisiana. There is a large French influence in that culture.
The french had quite a number of shortlived colonies on the eastcoast (Maine and Nova Scotia for example) before the british even arrived. But their main colonies were Louisiana (named after the King ) and parts of Florida and then along parts of Mississippi. They were kicked ot from Florida by the spaniards and as a result of the french-indian war louisiana was taken over by the by Spain and Canada by England. This was about 1760. Spain later gave Louisiana back but the french then sold it to the (now existing) United States. Somewhere in the beginning of the 19,th century. But many big places are founded by the french, not just obvious ones like St. Louis and New Orleans, but also Detroit, Mobile, Biloxi, Baton Rouge and Green Bay too. So even if the land changed owner i find it very probably that some settlers stayed on. They probably felt that this is my home now and also, perhaps, weren't so keen on going home to a France in the beginning of a revolution. So i think in some areas not unusual, in others unusual but it it happens because people move around quite alot in US history. It goes for other countries too by the way. The swedes are quite common in Minnesota for example. I've seen graveyards dominated by swedish names from early 20,th century in Minnesota.
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Yes, in the movie and series Fargo, which take place mainly in Minnesota (even though Fargo itself is in North Dakota) the characters have Swedish names and speak with a Swedish accent (which sounds probably horrible to real Swedes).
I'd like to find an unmarried woman with HUGE...tracts of land!
For whatever reason that made me think of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.