| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name
 | Date | Lines | 
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| 4.1 |  | 4501::LANE | We're on a road to nowhere | Thu Jul 16 1987 13:02 | 5 | 
|  |     Kristy,
    
    I think that is a very pretty name, I've never heard it before.
    
    Debbi
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| 4.2 | ETYMOLOGY | NYOA::LENT |  | Thu Dec 24 1987 09:15 | 2 | 
|  |     DOES ANYONE KNOW THE MEANING OF THE NAME KIRA?  I'M INTERESTED IN
    KNOWING.
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| 4.3 |  | AIMHI::LLEBLANC |  | Tue Feb 09 1988 07:52 | 1 | 
|  |     How do you pronounce Kira???  Long i or short i?
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| 4.4 | long i | 25348::HTAYLOR | Cat lovers are a special breed. | Thu Feb 11 1988 08:00 | 5 | 
|  |     I don't think that Kristy gets into this file anymore so I will
    answer for her.  Kristy pronounces it with a long i.  She is a very
    pretty girl to go along with her very pretty name.
    
    Hollie
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| 4.5 |  | WORDS::KRISTY | Insanity: the only alternative | Tue Mar 15 1988 15:35 | 1 | 
|  |     Actually, we pronounce Kira like it would be spelled Keera.
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| 4.6 | KIRA TOO | SCOMAN::JAMES |  | Sun Aug 07 1988 07:43 | 4 | 
|  |          MY NIECE IS NAMED KIRA. MY SISTER GOT THE NAME FROM THE MOVIE
    "XANADU"
                               STEVE
    
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| 4.7 | Something to Muse over | CSC32::S_WATTUM |  | Tue Sep 13 1988 12:21 | 20 | 
|  |     In XANADU, Kira was (supposedly) one of the Muses, from greek
    mythology one of the nine daughters of Mnemosyne (how about that for a
    girls name?) and Zeus, each of whom presided over a different art
    or science:
    
    Calliope	- Epic poetry
    Clio	- History
    Erato	- Lyric poetry and mime
    Euterpe	- Lyric poetry and music
    Melpomene	- Tragedy
    Polyhymnia	- Singing, rhetoric and mime
    Terpsichore	- Dancing and choral singing
    Thalia	- Comedy and pastoral poetry
    Urania	- Astronomy
    So, now the thing to do is figure out which Muse Kira really was. I
    haven't been able to find any reasonable derivation for any of the
    "true" Muses that gives Kira as a name, but then it was only a movie. 
    --Scott
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| 4.8 |  | WORDS::KRISTY | Certified Hug Therapist | Wed Nov 02 1988 16:10 | 2 | 
|  |     Kira is a Persian name meaning "sun".  It fits our daughter quite
    well, as she's a real sunny blonde with bright blue eyes...
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| 4.9 | ..... | GAOV08::TCOMER |  | Wed May 24 1989 05:33 | 1 | 
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