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[sparklymoon.livejournal.com]

My friend Daniela and her husband Jason just had a baby, Joshua Felix.  I was quite surprised by the name, but I really like it!

Daniela has 2 sisters, Alice and Andréia, and Jason has a twin sister, Sandra and 2 younger sisters, Bianca and Elaina.

I also spent the holidays in easterb Quebec with my sister and her boyfriend and his family.  Her boyfriend, Jacques, is one of 8 children.  In order they are:

Roland (married to Marie, has 2 children: Fred and Marie-Annick)
Réjean (married to Lise)
Daniel (married to a woman who has a very French name that starts with M, but I can't remember right now)
Jacques (has daughter Talia from previous marriage, lives with my sister Marion and her daughter Kiyah)
Suzanne (married to Jean, has daughter Naida prn Nigh-ee-dah)
Marie-Diane (has daughter Ariana, I think a foster son named William)
Nathalie (married to Dany, has 2 children: Émi prn Amy and Rachel prn Rachelle)
Gilbert

I also met their neighbours, sisters named Luce (rhymes with puce) and Lucie.  I find this hilarious.

ETA:  I was looking up Sharon Horgan (actress/comedienne from "Pulling" among other shows) and she has two daughters with really interesting names:  Amer and Sadbhb.  The second name, if I understand correctly, is prn Sive or Saeve, and since she is Irish, it makes sense.  Amer I'm not sure about because it seems to be a variant of Amir, which is odd for a girl.

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[silvermidnight.livejournal.com]

This is an interesting mix of names!

I like Joshua. It's classic but it's not used very often by people I've come acorss, at least.

I also like Daniela and Biance.

How do you pronounce Rejean? Ray-zjhon? What about Lise? Lee-say?

I'm not a huge fan turning Amy into Emi and Rachelle into Rachel although I'm aware that you're probably from a heavily french part of Canada so that's probably just my own cultural biases.

I think the Luce and Lcie are hilarious, too!

Do you think Saeve would be pronounced Say-eve or Save like save the coupons?

[silvermidnight.livejournal.com]

*Bianca. I guess that's where Beyonce came from.

[quinnthevixen.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 <3 Sharon Horgan!

[sparklymoon.livejournal.com]

I'm glad someone else knows who she is!!! I was just watching "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret" last night and I was so pleased to see her.

[sparklymoon.livejournal.com]

I laughed so hard at that comment.

Lise is like Leeze (like Leeza Gibbons without the a)
Rejean is pretty close to what you suggested... not good with phonetics lol... ray-zhahn, ray-zjhon, depends on how quebecois you say it haha.

I found this site for irish name (or a lot of name) pronunciations. http://www.forvo.com/word/sadhbh/
Rejean is here http://www.forvo.com/word/r%C3%A9jean_ducharme/#fr

[quinnthevixen.livejournal.com]

After seeing her in "Pulling" and "Free Agents" there was no way I could NOT adore her! She's fabulous. Have yet to watch "Todd Margaret" but would like to check it out.