Or Nellie or Nell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Shelley" <bshelley@mcgrawschools.org> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Nick/Pet names for Ellen > Barbara, > > Due to the closeness in origin between the names Ellen, Helen, and Eleanor, > the following appear to have been fairly common in usage for each: > > 1) "Ellie" as a diminutive > 2) Limited-to-moderate interchangeable usage of Lena, Aileen, Eileen, > Elaine, Eleanor, Ellen, Lanna (and one might think, Lana), Lenora, Nora > 3) The Irish tended to use Nell, Nelly, and Nellie as nick/pet names for > Ellen. > > Hope this helps. > Brian > > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message