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Article: Here, they call a rose 'Rose'.(The Home Forum)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 4, 2002
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Byline: Kate Chambers
ED: ALL 09/04/2002 -- My mother was horrified when we named our kitten Jezebel. She thinks kittens should have cozy names like Ginger or Samantha. Why name a kitten - a tomcat, at that - after a wicked Old Testament woman who killed the prophets of the Lord, she wanted to know.
But Jezebel is a Zimbabwean kitten, a golden-eyed tabby rescued from the wild shores of Lake Kariba. And naming something or someone in Zimbabwe isn't quite the same as it is in England, where Mum lives.
For one thing, it's much simpler. You don't have to coyly name your little girl Sarah and tell her when she grows up that it means "princess." Here, ...