If it weren't for a misspelling on her birth certificate, she would have had the first name Orpah
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TV Legends Revealed: Did Oprah Winfrey Gain Her First Name ...  Jan 22, 2014 ... However, she had one of the most difficult roads to stardom imaginable, as she grew up in poverty (when she was a child, she would often have to wear ... a strange legend has persisted about Winfrey's famous first name: that it came ... The name on her birth certificate is Orpah Gail Lee (she is named after...
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Oprah Winfrey - Biography - IMDb  Oprah Winfrey was born Orpah Gail Winfrey in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to Vernita Lee, ... Orpah, named after a biblical character, had a name no one could ... radio station, WVOL spotted her and asked her if she would like to read on radio. .... misspelling on her birth certificate or a struggle with the pronunciation of her name...
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Oops, I misspelled my kid's name | BabyCenter Blog  Mar 30, 2012 ... Can you imagine getting your child's birth certificate back and ... and always has to check with me if he write my daughter's first name (Savannah). ... I think the most famous misspelled name is "Oprah" she was supposed to be Orpah (the ... She had to have her name legally changed as an adult because the...
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Oprah wasn't always Oprah: Her birth name revealed - AOL ...  Aug 28, 2015 ... "My Aunt Ida had chosen the name, but nobody really knew how to spell it ... than the birth certificate," she told the American Academy of Achievement back in 1991. ... "On the birth certificate it is Orpah, but then it got translated to Oprah, .... Preparation Is Key: What First-Time Homebuyers Need to KnowU.S....
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What do you think of "creatively spelled" names? [Archive ...  I couldn't help wondering, however, whether her parents simply liked the ... she couldn't understand why everyone spelled her name Brynda at first. ... On the birth certificate it is Orpah, but then it got translated to Oprah, ..... The downside is the kid will have to correct people's spelling for the rest of his life.
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Celebrities- the Names You Know Them by and Their REAL Names ...  Jul 22, 2011 ... Rihanna may go by just her first name, but it's not her real name! ... Audrey Faith Perry is more like it, though it doesn't have that sweet country sound to it. ... Shania means on my way in Ojibwa. ... Somehow, Anna Bullock isn't the spicy diva name Tina Turner is, and it's a good thing she changed it.
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Hatshepsut - Crystalinks  Her reign was the longest of all the female pharaohs. ... produced a propaganda story in which her father Thutmose I supposedly named her as ... wore a false beard to prove that she could be Pharaoh and rule Egypt in her own right. ..... of Amun by Moyra Caldecott, Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge and Pharaoh by...
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History of Poznan | Poznan Life - Local Life  Any info on last name of Bic (squiggly line under the c)...also listed as Bikowski in US. ... i knew they were jewish and have become really interested in their history. ... itself as being of German Ancestry with their Mother Language as being Polish. ... Mary V. Errsala - Possibly phonetic interpretation of surname by an Official?
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Aug 15, 2010 ... Her "immediate family" raised her mostly in Greenwich & also briefly in Africa. Reply . Report Abuse Judge it! Alex Trebek. Des Moines, IA.
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Next Stop Wonderland: ST Forum: Speak better English - let's get it ...  Apr 27, 2007 ... Correctly, she didn't drag her first 'live' but did the second to sound 'leave'. ... Guyana is 'Gye-anna', not 'Gee-anna' and Lesotho is 'Luh-soo-too', not 'Lee-soto'. ... British place names in America can sound different: Birmingham is ... Unlike written music, spelling alone can mislead pronunciation even with...
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jeopardy/1853_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SCREEN NAMES | If she hadn't changed her name, a song from "Grease" would be "Look At Me, I'm Alexandra Zuck" | Sandra Dee. right: Marjorie. Wrong:.
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Some Rules and Suggestions about Spelling  It's also comforting to bad spellers to know that this business of spelling ... Some people, once they've seen a word spelled correctly, will never misspell that ... and if you have the money lying around to buy one, they can be a good investment. ... Geography students will remember that George Eliot's Old Grandfather Rode A...
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jeopardy/2032_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Wrong: Value: DD: $1,000. Number: 21. MADONNA | One of the 2 middle names that Madonna uses; one of them is her confirmation name | Louise or Veronica.
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jeopardy/1365_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  TV COMEDY | An address label error led to a character on this show receiving a TV guide as "Ms. Chanandler Bong" | Friends. right: Christopher. Wrong:.
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jeopardy/3115_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  CHILDREN'S LIT | One version of this story begins, "There was once a poor miller who had a very beautiful daughter" | "Rumpelstiltskin". right: Chris. Wrong:.
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Daily Celebrations ~ Elizabeth Taylor, More the Better ~ February 27 ...  In a 1999 interview, Taylor told Barbara Walters that she wanted her tombstone to read, "Here lies Elizabeth. She hated being called Liz. But she lived." elizabeth...
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Apr 28, 2011 ... Had she kept her maiden name, these full trousers would have been called Jenkses. Reply . Report Abuse Judge it! Alex Trebek. Des Moines...
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To Win Is To 'L-u-g-e' - The Washington Post  By Lloyd Grove June 1, 1984 ... Then McWhirter tripped on "towhee," a type of bird, and Greenblatt spelled it correctly, getting the right to the last word. ... "We've had spelling bees in this country for 200 years," said Alex J. Cameron, an English ... To become champion, Daniel Greenblatt prevailed over "isthmus," "evulsion,"...
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Richmond girl top speller | National | journaltimes.com  May 29, 1992 ... WASHINGTON (AP) - Amanda Goad, a 13-year-old from Richmond, Va., defeated last year's third-place finisher to win the 65th National Spelling ... Wallace of Blackfoot, Idaho, who was competing in his fourth straight contest.
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Handwritten Notes Are Valuable - WordPoints  But there's no denying that the presence of words written by THE ACTUAL ... Wouldn't a celebrity's name spelled out in printer's type be just as valuable? And even if it was that person's signature, wouldn't a mass-reproduced copy of the...
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jeopardy/1589_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE VENETIAN | Orso Ipato became the first of these Venetian chief ... In 1995 some sections of this Jewish girl's WWII diary were made public for the first time ... "If I Could Turn Back Time" I "Believe" I would attend her 1991 extravaganza at...