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[cathkitten.livejournal.com]

Someone posted about Months of the Year names like June and April, so I thought I'd follow up and ask:

What gemstone names do you all like?

List of some traditional "gemstone" names:

Ruby
Opal
Pearl
Jade
Sapphira (Sapphire)
Esmeralda (Emerald)
Amethyst
Coral


I can't think of any more right now but I know there must be. I really like Ruby and Opal and that's about it.

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[luliriisi.livejournal.com]

My youngest sister's name is Jade, but we pronounce it Ya-deh. Because that's how it's pronounced in Finnish (which we are, so it makes sense). Both my name and my other sister's names also have the J as a Y when explaining it to someone who speaks English (Yulia and Yasmin as it were). Although both of us just let people pronounce our names whichever way they think is correct. So we have three different pronounciations for our names (we live in the French part of Belgium).

And I do like Ruby. Pearl just sounds very grandmother-y to me. Esmeralda is pretty but it makes me think of the character from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Amethyst is interesting, but I wouldn't name my child that (I need something that my mother can pronounce with ease in Finnish).