{"id":284,"date":"2016-04-23T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=284"},"modified":"2016-04-23T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T13:50:11","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2016\/04\/23\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sibo<\/a><\/p>\n

The other day I read a quote that went like this\u2026 \u201cPeople\u2019s names are the sweetest sounds they hear. You should make a point of being good at learning and using them<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sjoe! I started thinking that it\u2019s sometimes quite a problem in South Africa because we can\u2019t always pronounce names the way they are supposed to be pronounced.<\/p>\n

Sometimes people even get called other names that are easier to say. I wonder if that makes the person sad and if they maybe lose a little bit of their identity.<\/p>\n

I started thinking some more \u2013 what do names actually mean.\u00a0 My full name is Sibongile. If you google \u201cThe meaning of the name Sibongile\u201d you will find that it means thank you and it originates in Africa. But if you go to one of the American \u201cwhat does your name mean\u201d sites and type in Sibongile it will (a) tell you that this is not a very common name and (b) maybe you should try the shortened version.<\/p>\n

Did you ever!<\/p>\n

There are a couple of different sites that you can try too \u2013 some of them go into great detail about the meaning of your name. Others have the different meanings for every letter \u2013 and then you can sort of summarize all of them and see if it fits.<\/p>\n

Then you get some people who make up their own names. Like my friend Luan for instance. He was named after his paternal Grandfather, Lucien and his maternal Grandmother, Anna. It\u2019s not a very common name either.<\/p>\n

Some people are named after people that their parents know \u2013 like my friend Ginny. She was named after the singer Virginia Lee \u2013 not that she can sing a note! The only time Ginny gets called Virginia is when her mother is cross with her! I guess that\u2019s true with all of us.\u00a0 Ginny wanted to name her elder daughter after her Grandmother \u2013 Laura \u2013 but her granny really hated the name and was rather called by her second name Margaret (shortened down to Peggie or Peg) for most of her life. So Ginny named her daughter Lauren instead.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t really think that Lauren could be shortened \u2013 but it could \u2013 Lolla!<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not even talk about the funny names that people call their animals \u2013 or why. That would keep us busy all day.<\/p>\n

Try googling your name to see what it means\u00a0 http:\/\/www.names.org\/<\/a> \u00a0(for the short version) or https:\/\/www.kabalarians.com\/cfm\/what-does-my-name-mean.cfm<\/a> – for the long version.<\/p>\n

Have fun!<\/p>\n

Sibo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I read a quote that went like this\u2026 \u201cPeople\u2019s names are the sweetest sounds they hear. You should make a point of being good at learning and using them.\u201d Sjoe! I started thinking that it\u2019s sometimes quite a problem in South Africa because we can\u2019t always pronounce names the way they are … Continue reading “What’s in a name?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[24,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}