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From: "Linda Hardy" <>
Subject: Re: [TRIVVIES] old-fashioned names
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 04:19:46 +1000


I have a cousin named Iona, and I always thought the name was Scottish, from
the Isle of Iona, a scottish Island.

Linda
Tasmania


> There is a section of the area that I call home (in Florida) that is
> called Iona. Had I thought about it, I would have thought it came
> from the Greek - since its toward the beach and we had quite a Greek
> fishing community.
>
> Linda





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