Well, It's About Time.

[fenderlove]

Finally! There is a Royal with my name (alternative spelling of my name at least)! Someone told me today that there is now a Savannah in the royal family. She's the daughter of Peter and Autumn Philips, granddaughter of Princess Anne, and the only great-grandchild as of yet of the Queen. It's nice that someone liked my name enough to add it to the British monarchy family tree... Unfortunately, as I was looking up some info from January about the birth, I got treated to page after page of American Anglo-philes trashing my name, describing it as "trailer trash" and "ugly" and "a disgrace to the Crown." What does that even mean? It's one syllable away from just being "Anna" for God's sake (my mother named me as such so that I would have my distant relation, Anne Boleyn, as a partial-namesake). What makes it so terrible? Just because it's not traditionally used in England doesn't make it a horrible name.

Weird fact culled from a old name book from the 1980's: Savanna, my name, is listed as being Spanish in origin and means "barren and unfruitful." Savannah, however, is listed as being African in origin and means "fruitful." In comparison to the geographical terms "savanna" and "savannah," both are grassland ecosystems, but only the savannah has trees (I guess that's why it's considered more fruitful).

Comments

[lilithbint.livejournal.com]

These will be the same people who won't shut up about Cate being a commoner and Camilla being a divorcee I would imagine.
Savannah/Savanna always reminds me of Gone with the Wind for some reason, and the grass stuff but GWTW more.
My cousin named her daughter Sahara because she liked the sound of it, she had no idea it was a desert... We have a great education system here really.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Heee, Savanna/Savannah is a very Southern name, so very GWTW. :D

Aww, Sahara is a cute name. Shame about the education system though. XD

[lilithbint.livejournal.com]

To be fair it could be due more to her complete lack of interest in school because she was fixated on babies.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Babies are sometimes adorable and distracting. XD

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a perfectly lovely name to me. Acres better than "Apple" or "Moxie Crimefighter" "shudders".

People will complain about everything just because they can, especially these days in the anonymous internet era.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Pilot Inspektor always gave me pause. XD

I do sometimes get the thought that some people would complain if their ice cream was cold. :D