So, I thought "creative" spellings were a relatively new phenomenon...

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

but apparently not. I was looking through my mom's wedding pictures, and she showed me a couple of her great aunts and uncles. Her great grandmother wanted to name her daughters biblical names, but didn't want them to sound too Jewish, so she changed a couple of letters in all of them. So, that generation of females is named:

Devorah instead of Deborah,
Yetra instead of Yetta (my great grandmother),
Elnor instead of Eleanor, and
Hasel instead of Hazel.

Apparently the boys didn't get the same treatment though, because they were named Sol, David, Julian and Raymond. Big family I guess. I kind of like Devorah.

On a relatively related note, my mother thinks all old-testament names sound way too Jewish. For instance, I quite like names like Levi, Seth, Jonah, Asher, Solomon etc. but she thinks they all sound too religious.

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[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

i know someone in her early 30s named devorah. i'm not a huge fan, but it's okay.

[lovablemess.livejournal.com]

Devorah is just Deborah in Hebrew. Not an odd spelling, simply the Hebrew translation.

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

Oh! Well in that case it would sound MORE Jewish. Hmm, I wonder why she named her that then.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Seth is in NO WAY "too religious"!

if anything, the only thing religious about my son Seth is a reference to LUCIFER! *giggle*


Ok, thats not fair though. When I finally got sick of baby name books, I grabbed a bible and said the first name I LIKED i would name my son. Adam...blah. Cain? Well, that's got REALLY bad conotation. Abel..to much like Able, and I HATE "word" names. Seth. Seth? Seth!!!!!

yes.

:-p

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I love Devorah. It's the original Hebrew form of Deborah. And Yetra might possibly be the feminine version of Yitro.

[dreemerr.livejournal.com]

i LOVE the name Levi, and have planned on using it on my son for many years nowXD

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I believe some of these spellings are the original jewish version, like Devorah for Deborah.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I think Solomon sounds religious indeed, but the other names don't remind me of the Bible at all (not that I'm an expert when it comes to biblical matters =P).

[bugamok.livejournal.com]

I like Levi and Jonah, mostly because I have great associations with those names.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

I too thought it was funny that she changed Deborah to Devorah in an attempt to be LESS jewish lol

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

Yeah I actually just found out it was "Deverah" (pron. de-vEEra) not "Devorah" so I guess a letter was still changed. I'm not going to bother editing the post though cause no one will notice haha