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[sal_amanda]

I work at a college and I was looking up some info on an incoming student yesterday.  Someone with a similar last name popped up on my search, but it was the first name that definitely caught my attention:  Lesbia.  

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[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

oh my.

[blue-raine.livejournal.com]

oh, how... awesome... -.- poor kid.

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

I'd sue my parents.

[blosmbee.livejournal.com]

That's pretty bad.
My husband used to work with a guy whose last name was Fagg. I'd change my name...

[sal_amanda]

She had a nice middle name. Something like Rosalia. So I'm hoping she went by that, but I still wouldn't register for college as Lesbia, that's for sure.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Oh dear...

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

That's unfortunate.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that her parents' first language is not English. I can see where it would sound pretty if that were the case.

[sal_amanda]

Not sure since I don't know this student, and the last name had no obvious ethnic origin to me. But I would think the root (which I'm assuming is either Greek or Latin - I'm no linguist) would mean basically the same thing in several languages. But I guess I also hope that somehow they didn't know what they were doing to that poor kid.

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

My head did a little double take when I saw that.

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

I expected it was something like that too, but I doubt most people would understand its origins. If it didn't have its current associations, I reckon it'd be a nice name.