[Sca-cooks] The masculine name Misha, was The rock

[Dunbar, Debra]

My son's mundane name is "Nikolai", and I've had many a teacher assume he
was a girl from the name.
And we have a male friend whose real name is Andrea which in Italy is a
boy's name.

Wrynne

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> Sent:	Thursday, January 31, 2002 4:32 PM
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> Subject:	Re: [Sca-cooks] The masculine name Misha, was The rock
>
> In a message dated 1/31/02 11:41:53 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> lilinah at earthlink.net writes:
>
> << Errr, ummm, Misha is a male name. It is a diminutive for Mikhail, i
>  believe. I know several female Mishas, but that's because of an
>  American misunderstanding along the lines of every "foreign" name
>  ending in "a" must be female.
>  (Both Sasha and Misha are Slavic diminutives)>>
>
> Yep. The literal translation of Misha would be Mike, which is my mundane
> name. Originally, I had the name Vladimir Misha Ilich Grigor'ev, but it
> didn't work out so i've decided to take the herald's advice and shorten it
> to
> Misha Grigor'ev. And there is a American misunderstanding with many
> Russian
> diminuitives. My name that I started out with the society, Nikita, is a
> diminuitive of Nikolas or Nick in English but the famous TV show "La Femme
> Nikita" had the question pop up many times to me "Why do you have a girls
> name?" Jeez. You would think TV shows would learn about a cultures
> nomenclature before naming characters. Did not know about Sasha though.
> Very
> interesting.
>
> <<Of course, i know Misha himself will have something to say to this :-)>>
>
> You know me very well not to miss a chance on this! :D
>
> <<And, Vladimir, there's plenty of room at the Rock for you - it's got
>  a hot tub, if i recall correctly - and the password is "Cuskynoles"...
>
>  Anahita
>  who is a female whose name ends with "a" >>
>
> Indeed. I visit The Rock myself too many times. Plenty of stiff drinks
> there,
> as I heard. I can't drink, since i'm under age :).
>
> Misha
> Male last time he checked.
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