About names - 7th children

[evillestofthemall_13]

No: HPFGUIDX 37393

Erm...first of all, hello. I am a newbie. My name is Jo, some may 
know me as twelveeyes...::hides:: Er, I do believe there is some 
dislike directed towards me for being a fangirl, but I'm harmless. I 
just...bounce a lot. Right. Well, I don't have any particular ships 
and don't favour any particular character...I just like the books on 
the whole.

Weaver: --Nicknames don't always follow logically from the first 
name -- Bill for William, Dick for Richard etc.  For Ginny, how 
about Jennifer?  Or Janelle, or Janine?  Admittedly not particularly 
English names (like the boys' names). Jean? Jane?  I think it's 
quite possible that Ginny does fit into that suggested system.

I don't know whether it's just me, but I thought that the Bill for 
William nickname was rather American. I'm probably wrong. :) For 
Ginny:  Gina, Genevieve (form of Guinevere), Janet (derived from 
Jane), and June. Although they don't really fit with the rest of the 
naming pattern, apart from Genevieve > Guinevere, which then goes to 
the Arthurian legends. Speaking of which, Arthur didn't happen to 
have knights called William, Charles, Percival, Frederick, George, 
and Ronald, did he? Unfortunately I haven't quite gotten up to that 
in history yet...

> >And what about girls? Is it the same for the 7th daughter of
> >a 7th daughter/son?
> --Have you ever read Terry Pratchett's *Equal Rites*, where the 
masculine power of wizardry is passed to the seventh child of a 
seventh son, who  - after recieving the power - turns out to be a 
girl?  Proposes an interesting idea, anyway, and as a die-hard TP 
fan, I love advising people to read him :-p

I have read that (and it is good), but then there's that bit of 
theory that there was another male child in there before Ron, 
therefore making Ron the seventh son. And even though I adore 
Pratchett, wouldn't it make more sense if it was a seventh daughter 
of a seventh daughter? And would she have to have six sisters before 
her to be the seventh daughter?

Jo, having read the Humungous Bigfile and refrained from using 
asterisks as markers for actions...who will go now and leave you all 
in peace.