http://emilycraig.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:16:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://emilycraig.wordpress.com http://emilycraig.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/4/ http://emilycraig.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/4/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:29:09 +0000 emilycraig http://emilycraig.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/4/ ]]> Emily was a name that was being used on a television show when my mother was pregnant with me.  She heard the name and liked it, so that is the name my parents decided on for me.  Emily is a feminine English name that is a form of Aemilius.  Emily was not a common name until the 18th century in England when princess Amelia Sophia’s family, from the German House of Hanover, came to the British throne.  She was often called Emily.  I share my first name with several writers, including Emily Bronte who wrote “Wuthering Heights” and the poet Emily Dickinson.  There are 320,742 people in the United States whose first name is Emily.

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