{"id":170,"date":"2002-10-17T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-17T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=170"},"modified":"2002-10-17T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-17T12:34:00","slug":"october-name-project-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-10\/170-october-name-project-q","title":{"rendered":"October Name Project: Q"},"content":{"rendered":"

There just aren’t<\/b> a lot of choices for names beginning with “Q”<\/b>!<\/font><\/p>\n

QUEENIE :<\/b><\/font>
\nPronounced:<\/i> KWEE-nee
\nOrigin(s):<\/i> English
\nMeaning:<\/i> Pet form of an old nickname derived from the Old English word cwen<\/i> meaning “woman, wife”. British literary critic Queenie Dorothy Leavis<\/b><\/a> wrote Fiction and the Reading Public<\/i> (1932), which analyzed the market for different types of fiction.<\/p>\n

QUINCY :<\/b><\/font>
\nPronounced:<\/i> KWIN-see
\nOrigin(s):<\/i> Latin
\nMeaning:<\/i> Born fifth. pop-soul composer Quincy Jones<\/b><\/a> has scored more than 50 films, including The Wiz<\/i> (1978) and The Color Purple<\/i> (1985).<\/p>\n

Information sources include Behind the Name<\/a>, Baby Zone<\/a>, and Fact Monster<\/a>. I don’t know why I decided to do this little project, but I’m going to post two names each day for the month of October. The names for each day will begin with same letter, and I’ll work my way through the alphabet until I do “Z” on October 26th. The names for the rest of the month will come from reader submissions.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There just aren’t a lot of choices for names beginning with “Q”! QUEENIE : Pronounced: KWEE-nee Origin(s): English Meaning: Pet form of an old nickname derived from the Old English word cwen meaning “woman, wife”. British literary critic Queenie Dorothy … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}