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[Laura C. Minnick]

At 05:48 PM 3/11/03 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Just for grins, Felomene is a female French Canadian name, found primarily
>>in Quebec and Nova Scotia and was more popular around 1900.
>
>And badly spelled, at that, too. It should be 'Philomene' (and I believe
>there is a cartoon character with that name, actually)
>
>Writing from Quebec, however, I can assure you that this name is almost
>extinct by now :-)
>
>(Or maybe it was: 'fellow men', just as badly spelled :-)))
>
>Petru

The name goes back to at least the 14th c in Italy... (Boccacchio)

'Lainie


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