New English (?) name: Jhan

[Jonathan Lighter]

Well, one thing is that, except for "jheri curl," this is only ex. of the
sequence {jh} I've ever seen in English.

Also, the name is presumably - or potentially - unisex, rather like "Jan,"
which, in English, I still think of in spite of the evidence as exclusively
feminine. Just as "Evelyn" used to be masculine.

(The first masculine "Jan"  I ever heard of in English was the once
famous/infamous Jan Bakker.)


JL

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:48 PM, William Palmer <palmerwil at gmail.com> wrote:

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> An innocent question...what is unique to "Jhan", that is not unique about,
> say, "Beyonc=E9" or DeMontez" (Stitt)...Clemson's pointguard, for example?
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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
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> > > Studies: Nature in Film, Novel, and Theory_ (Moscow: University of
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