Veronika is the equivalent of Veronique in French. Veronika sounds like a dutch, Tcheque and Slovak name. Veronique is popular in the East of France.

Stanley has two prefixe the first one is Stan and the second one is ley. Ley means law in Spanish. Stanley is also the name of a famous explorer who met another explorer David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

Ursula is the name of a famous actress Ursula Andres. Ursula sounds like a Scandinavian name. It is in Scandinavia that the scanner was invented.

Teresa is written the same way in English and in Spanish. Spain in the Mediterrenean region has one of the finest weather for tourism in the world. Teresa is Thérèse in French.

Quinn is a Irish first name. One of the famous westerns actors is Steven Macquinn. This last actor with Gary Cooper and Clint Eastwood made the good years of the Hollywood studios.

The second side to the coin.

The short name for Lawrence is Larry. Lawrence remind us of Lawrence of Arabie a famous writer. The feminin Lawrence is Lauren, Laurence or Laura which are respectively of English, French and Spanish origins.

John is the short form of Jonathan. It sounds like a name from Denmark or Greenland which is part of the American Great North. Denmark is famous for its fish this means that the waters of Denmark are very warm although Denmark is in North Europe more precisely in Scandinavia.

I must admit I have been feeling rather broody lately.

Isabelle is the name of a famous noble of Spain who is Isabelle of Castille. The suffixe belle means beautiful in French and the prefix arranged in an other order is isba the name of the Russian house just as the cottage for the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.