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All those English-language names that start with J

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2013-03-29 07:14:37 in General
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

Why are there so many of them?


James/Jimmy, Joshua/Josh, John/Jonathan, Jerry, Janet, Janice, Jasmine, Jason, Jan, Jeff/Jeffrey/Jefferson, Jill/Jillian, Jules, Julius/Julian, Julie/Julia, Jake/Jacob, Jack, Jen/Jennifer, Jessica/Jessie, Jenna, Jewel, Jenelle, Jean, Jared/Jareth, Jeremiah/Jeremy, Josiah, Joseph/Joe, Josiah, Josephine/Jo, Jackie/Jacqueline, Joy, Joyce, Jane, Jade, Jesse, Justin, Jordan, ...

Comments

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    Half of 'em Biblical, if not more.

  • Naas_HumanNaas_Human

    Speaking of Biblical names, shouldn't "Jesus" be pronounced "i-yey-sus"? At least, going by how Wikipedia suggests the Greek pronounciation.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Isn't it basically an alternate form of Joshua?

  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    edited 2013-03-29 08:07:22
    But you never had any to begin with.

    Jesus comes from the Greek name Iēsous/Ἰησοῦς, which in turn comes from the Hebrew Yeshua, which in turn is an alternate form of Yehoshuah/Yehoshua (AKA Joshua).

  • Naas_HumanNaas_Human

    So yeah, why is it J like "juice" instead of Y like "yeast"?

  • FuschlatzFuschlatz
    A Mind You Do NOT Want To Read

    Same reason that English speakers pronounce the letter J as 'dzh' in general, I'd say.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Because us English speakers take the spelling other languages and pronouncing the way we see them.


    Hence, Serberus.

  • FuschlatzFuschlatz
    A Mind You Do NOT Want To Read

    The weird thing is that most Germanic languages use a 'y' sound for the letter J (as do most Uralic and Balto-Slavic languages, for that matter)...so why don't we?


    Already started reading, and it would seem that we mostly have the French to blame.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2013-03-29 12:32:09
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    ^^Blame the typesetters. They didn't want to make their own letters for printing presses, so they just shoehorned in foreign ones and didn't use them right.


    At least, that's what happened with Þ turning into "th."

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