new name you can use on your kid

[Jonathan Lighter]

Ah, but white parents can *read* the words as well as anybody else.

149,000 raw Googlits for "Jhessica,"
24,000 for "Jhesica"
14,000 for "Jhesika"
17,000 for "Jhessika"

176,000 for "Jhennifer"
328,000 for "Jhenifer"
306 for "Jhenifur"
8 for "Jhennifur"

9,000 for "Jheraldine"

Well over a million for "Jhane."

As well as for "Jhohn."

Truly, they walk among us.

JL

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > _white_ ladies
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> Oh. Well, in that case, my immediate thought that this name is a
> development of the name of the hairstyle, the _Jheri curl_, is
> probably mistaken.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jheri_curl
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