new name you can use on your kid

[Tom Zurinskas]

is "jh" spoken like a regular "j", as in "just"?


Tom Zurinskas, first Ct 20 yrs, then Tn 3, NJ 33, Fl 9.
Learn the alphabet and sounds of US English at justpaste.it/ayk








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> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:55:31 -0400
> From: wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: new name you can use on your kid
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> Poster: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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> Ah, but white parents can *read* the words as well as anybody else.
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> 149,000 raw Googlits for "Jhessica,"
> 24,000 for "Jhesica"
> 14,000 for "Jhesika"
> 17,000 for "Jhessika"
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> 176,000 for "Jhennifer"
> 328,000 for "Jhenifer"
> 306 for "Jhenifur"
> 8 for "Jhennifur"
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> 9,000 for "Jheraldine"
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> Well over a million for "Jhane."
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> As well as for "Jhohn."
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> Truly, they walk among us.
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> JL
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> 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
> > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > _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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