Inigo Jones

John H. McCloskey wrote on 28 May 2004:
[nq:1]Inigo Jones 28 May 2004 A new biography > can't do better (p. 14) about the man's odd Christian name than vaguely suggest it might be Lysdexic for "Ignatius." Has anybody out there ever heard a more plausible explanation?[/nq]
I'm guessing that he was a blue baby and that whoever filled out the birthcert just dropt the "d".

Franke:

[nq:1]Inigo Jones A new biography can't do better (p. 14) about the man's odd Christian name than vaguely suggest it might be Lysdexic for "Ignatius." Has anybody out there ever heard a more plausible explanation?[/nq]
If that is the best the author can offer, he must not have done much serious research into the origin of the name. Inigo is, indeed, the Spanish form, as well as the English, of

[nq:2]Inigo Jones A new biography can't do better (p. 14) ... Has anybody out there ever heard a more plausible explanation?[/nq]
[nq:1]If that is the best the author can offer, he must not have done much serious research into the origin of the name. Inigo is, indeed, the Spanish form, as well as the English, of the name Ignatius.[/nq]
That will come as disappointing news for the tens of t

[nq:2]If that is the best the author can offer, he ... form, as well as the English, of the name Ignatius.[/nq]
[nq:1]That will come as disappointing news for the tens of thousands of Spaniards who are called Ignacio (AKA Nacho). It's also "Íñigo" (roughly "ee-NYEE-goh")[/nq]
Oops. ***** up. Sorry. (Wrong stress it's actually "EE-nyee-goh", hence the accent on the "Í".

Ross Howard

[nq:2]Inigo Jones A new biography can't do better (p. 14) ... Has anybody out there ever heard a more plausible explanation?[/nq]
[nq:1]If that is the best the author can offer, he must not have done much serious research into the origin ... name means, at least in the Spanish context, which is older, the "man on fire (for the love of ***)."[/nq]

"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You

[nq:1]"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father: prepare to die.[/nq]
When I was at Stanford, at the annual comedy show before Big Game, they worked the script to give the Dean of Admissions a role, in which his entering line was "Hello. My name is James Montoya. You killed my freshman. Prepare to die."

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John Dean filted:
[nq:1]"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father: prepare to die. Now, offer me money."[/nq]
Found on another newsgroup some years ago:
"My name is Indigo Montoya. You bleached my jeans; prepare to dye."

..r

[nq:2]Inigo Jones A new biography can't do better (p. 14) ... Has anybody out there ever heard a more plausible explanation?[/nq]
[nq:1]If that is the best the author can offer, he must not have done much serious research into the origin of the name. Inigo is, indeed, the Spanish form, as well as the English, of the name Ignatius.[/nq]
As Ross points out, it isn't really the Spanish form,

[nq:2]If that is the best the author can offer, he ... form, as well as the English, of the name Ignatius.[/nq]
[nq:1]As Ross points out, it isn't really the Spanish form, which is "Ignacio"; according to Hanks & Hodges' Dictionary of First Names , it's from a medieval Spanish diminitive of "Ignatius" and influenced by a (possibly Basque) name "Ennecus".[/nq]
Interesting. The standard dimi

[nq:2]English has a number of form of "Ignatius", borrowed from ... seems proper to English: Spanish "Inigo", Latin "Ignatius", German "Ignatz".[/nq]
[nq:1]A mess. But, hey, at least Spanish only has two versions of Ignatius James has at least four: Diego, Santiago, Yago and Jacobo (the latter is the one they use for the English and Scottish king Jameses).[/nq]
Well, English has "Jacob", "