New English (?) name: Jhan

[William Palmer]

An innocent question...what is unique to "Jhan", that is not unique about,
say, "Beyoncé" or DeMontez" (Stitt)...Clemson's pointguard, for example?

Bill P



On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Probably from the same school of naming as Saffron and Frontine (or was
> Fronteen?).
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>     VS-)
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> On 3/21/2011 5:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > Jhan Hochman of Portland Community College is the author of _Green
> Cultural
> > Studies: Nature in Film, Novel, and Theory_ (Moscow: University of Idaho
> > Press, 1998).
> > JL
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