[HPforGrownups] Re: A Weasley by any other name...[was: Second Daughter T...

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 45554


> Rebecca Stephens <rsteph1981 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I'm not sure Ginny is Virgina.  I didn't think that
> > was a common name in England.  It could be Ginny,
> > I'm
> > not discounting that.  But I'm not assuming it
> > either.
> > 
> > 
> > Rebecca
> 
> I meant to write "It could be Virginia, I'm not
> discounting that."
> 
> 
> 

Actually, Virginia is *not* un uncommon name in England. It's not terribly 
fashionable now, but I had a best friend at school called Virginia, then 
there was Virginia Wade, the tennis star, Virginia Woolf the novelist.... 

Honestly, from my perspective, it is the only name *likely* to be abbreviated 
to 'Ginny'. Others have suggested 'Imogene', which I *think* is an American 
version of Imogen (pronounced differently; I have never come across and 
English Imogene). I have a daughter called Imogen and no-one has *ever* come 
up with that shortened form (probably because of the English emphasis on the 
first, rather than the last syllable).

Eloise



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