Sticking my tenpennyth in! Several Lettices here in Pembrokeshire usually pronounced Lettuce as in salad ingredient or Let-tish-ia by people of a more English pronunciation!! Melanie Pronunced Mel-ah-knee! -----Original Message----- From: John Ball [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 8:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WLS-PEM] Forename 'Lettice' Martin Owen <[email protected]> wrote: Because I have a Lettice in my family tree, I thought I'd look to see if I could find any reference to the name, its origins or derivations anywhere. ================= Dear Martin, The Oxford Names Companion has the following entry for the forename Lettice: ---------------- LETTICE (f.) English: from the medieval English form of the Latin name Laetitia 'happiness'. It was popular among the Victorians, but is now regarded as faintly risible (perhaps because of its similarity to the vocabulary word lettuce). Pet forms: Letty, Lettie ---------------- Source: Page 808 "The Oxford Names Companion" by Patrick Hanks, Flavia Hodges, A. D. Mills, and Adrian Room, published 2002 by Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860561-7 Kind regards, John - -------------------------- John Ball, Ystalyfera, South Wales, UK E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://home.clara.net/wfha/ Welsh Family History Archive: http://home.clara.net/wfha/wales/ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.557 / Virus Database: 349 - Release Date: 30/12/2003 ______________________________ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.538 / Virus Database: 333 - Release Date: 11/10/03 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.538 / Virus Database: 333 - Release Date: 11/10/03