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Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond => Brokeback Mountain Open Forum => Topic started by: Shakesthecoffecan on April 16, 2018, 11:38:13 am

Title: Alma
Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on April 16, 2018, 11:38:13 am

SO, after all this time it has come to my attention that Alma is Spanish for Soul.

Interesting the Ennis DEL MAR and ALMA and both Spanish influenced names.

Jack and Lureen, well, not so much.

Title: Re: Alma
Post by: CellarDweller on April 16, 2018, 02:03:49 pm

Interesting.  I didn't know that.   So Alma Del Mar is Soul of the sea.

Title: Re: Alma
Post by: Front-Ranger on April 16, 2018, 02:48:57 pm

How interesting and beautiful! I seem to recall that Ennis means "island" too.

Now, Jack is a term of familiarity and contempt, also a term for a youth or knave, and also connotes a laborer. It is Middle English.

Lureen seems to be a name made up by Ms. Proulx, but I did find Laureen which means a laurel or bay tree.

Title: Re: Alma
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 16, 2018, 02:59:37 pm

There is a bar here in Philadelphia called Alma de Cuba.