On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:30:01 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

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On 22 Jul 2006 03:02:28 -0700, wrote:

I'm a Chinese girl,
I want to have a English name.
I like the word"Yucca",
so could you tell me that
can yucca be a English name for a girl?
I wonder that whether the word has some bad meanings
.
Yucca is the Spanish (or Indian?) name for a plant. It has no bad
meanings.

It does have bad connotations to many English speakers.

In Britain, "yuck", and "yucky", are common English slang terms of
disgust at something repulsive. There are probably fewer people familiar
with the plant name Yucca, than there are people who know the term
yucky.

Janet.

Hah! Gotta share this story. I was volunteering at an elementary
school, helping the kids, mostly Hispanic, some of them disadvantaged
due to not much English at home.

Was reading a story about how some pirates ran off with their booty,
when the whole classroom erupted in giggles.

Teacher kindly explained alternative meaning of "booty"

Persephone