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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Names

We've been asked a few times where our kids' names came from, so here is the explanation:

Oliver:  A couple of years before we had Oli, I dreamt we adopted a baby boy from Korea and his name was Oliver.  We both liked the name, but haven't adopted any kids.

Gael:  I didn't think we needed to have a middle name for Oli, but Jorge did and we liked Gael, and the only person we know with that name is the actor Gael Garcia Bernal.

Elinor:  The eldest Dashwood sister in Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility".

Veronica:  The spunky detective from the defunct teen noir TV show Veronica Mars.

1 comment:

Chams in PTY said...

Interesting to note: Oliver and Elinor have five letters in common and for Eli, the V is in her second name.