new name you can use on your kid (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Probably pronounced like "Jheri Curl".

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