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My name refers to straights or narrows, in reference to waterways. Go me.

If you go back far enough, apparently my name comes from "lotus" in Ancient Egyptian. I'm going with that.

My name by itself doesn't have a meaning, although it's a derivative of John, which is an anglicization of Iohannes, which is the Greek form of Yochanan, which means "God is gracious". Yeah, my name has 4 degrees of separation from it's original meaning.

Well when I gave the meaning for my name it's actually the meaning of the masculine version of the name that mine is a misspelling of.

Also my last name of German origin but has a diaeresis that doesn't make any sense in German that was added by my grandfather on advice from an English professor after the pronunciation was Americanized by my great-grandfather.

Haha my name technically doesn't mean anything. But a Qara by any other name would smell as sweet.

IN OTHER NEWS: New Factually Deficient post! I answered Jack's question about why the States in the US are such different sizes.

RussetDivinity wrote:Scarab wrote:
Would you rather it mean Princess? >.>

It could be worse. My name means "gift from God".

Well, my Middle name means 'Oath of God', which is almost as annoying for me but at least I LIKE my middle name (it's also, incidentally, the "fan given name" of Mrs Brisby in the Rats of NIMH/Secret of NIMH, because it was the first name of her voice actress in the movie, who died tragically young and it seems was just as nervous as the character she played.)

Also the weirdest thing is, so often people call me Rachel? I don't know WHAT it is about those two names that causes peope to mix them up so often, sure there were those two women who were closely connected in the bible, but seriously, how do you make that mix up when most people have never even read that bible story and never hear the name 'Rachel' uttered in my presence?! (Even worse my best friend growing up was named Rachel, so you can imagine what fun that was.)

eli_gone_crazy wrote:Woah my name means gift TO god. RUSS ARE WE TWINS

Eli you can't be twins with everyone no matter how awesome it would be (You got Gift? I got Oath...)

Oh and because I'm spamming a bit GO READ QARA'S NEW ENTRY ABOUT US STATES, guys.

Well, one of my names (the secret ones that even people who know me in real life don't know because of my nickname) could be read Son of (an) archer, and I AM a bit of a dead eye, so I guess that works out pretty well, huh?

My name doesn't really mean anything but I have a nickname which can be transliterated and back-translated to mean "expert", and I am totally down with being called that.

Speaking of being an expert, this week I answered Genndy's question about why grapefruits are more bitter than lemons.

narrativedilettante wrote:Here's a question:

How many planets are there? (Both in our solar system and in the entire universe.)

Thank you so much for this question, Dilly! I answered it this week!!!

And this week I answered a question from Vic about magic.

Qara-Xuan Zenith wrote:And this week I answered a question from Vic about magic.

Ahhh... That's explains everything!

And this week I answered Jack's question about sportsball!

This week I answered a question from socks regarding bards.

Here's a question:

With so many people spending money and time on research into cancer, why haven't we cured it yet?

Here's my question: How does one do the thing?

Here's a question:

What is the root of all evil?

Ooh! Another one:

What's the difference between the Queen of Canada and the Queen of England?

Here's one that always stumped the Usenet Oracle of old:

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Here's another question:

Why is it called meteorology if there are no meteors?

I have a question!

What exactly was the inspiration for the Minecraft 'creeper' and who the heck thought that would be a safe or sane addition to the game.

Notch was trying to add pigs to the game and accidentally got some TNT code mixed in. I'm not making that up.

'sides, Game Theory already did it.

Anura wrote:Notch was trying to add pigs to the game and accidentally got some TNT code mixed in. I'm not making that up.

'sides, Game Theory already did it.

That's a theory.

Qara's will be fact.

You guys are amazing thank you so much for all the questions I love you all.

This week, I explained the truth about freckles.

Okay so this week I answered a question that I think Krika asked ironically but someone else asked unironically anyway it's about the sky.

narrativedilettante wrote:Ooh! Another one:

What's the difference between the Queen of Canada and the Queen of England?

I enjoyed this question so much that I answered it this week, right here!