MDMD Cherrycoke

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 26 14:47:56 CDT 2001


John Bailey wrote:
> 
> DePugh and Dupont: possibility I guess. As for LeSpark, excuse my ignorance
> but can any elaborate on the French-sounding names of both LeSpark and
> DePugh? Does that indicate something about the family? Am I meant to realise
> something I don't when I read those names? I would have assumed an English
> background to these families, though I don't know why. Not that Spark is a
> French word. But then neither is Cherrycoke. Unless it is an Anglocised
> version of something like Cheriecoq, or Pretty Rooster. And he does crow
> like a rooster, that's for sure, though I'd never thought of him as pretty,
> but whatever floats ya boat.

Well, who knows,  there is Cherrycoke in GR, not exactly a reverend,
more a mystic, but the Reverends in GR, two I can think of, are both 
Catholics. Rev. Cherrycoke's initials are R.C. If they, Le Spark, DePugh
are French, they are probably Catholics. Who else would name a daughter
Tenebrae?



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