Great corned beef and cabbage!
Posted on 06/15/2018 5:05:19 AM PDT by Simon Green
Naomi Tomky was still laid out on the operating table after an emergency C-section when the earliest pangs of regret kicked in.
“The baby was being lifted over my head,” the 34-year-old freelance writer remembers, “and the anesthesiologist was like, ‘what’s her name?’ I started explaining and was like, oh God, what have I done?”
Tomky’s now 8-month-old daughter is Tove (pronounced TOH-vah), a Swedish moniker that’s typically said like TOO-vah, but in this case, the expectant parents from Seattle changed the pronunciation for a twist.
“My husband has Swedish heritage and then Tova, or Tovah, is a common Hebrew name, which I liked because I’m Jewish,” says the mother of two, laughing. “When I was pregnant, we loved the idea of combining them. Now we know we doomed her to a life of spelling it for other people.”
Would-be adventurous parents, take note: The name that calls out like a siren’s song from the page of a baby book might turn strident upon repetition. Baby name shame is real, and with unusual appellations such as Kairo and Zayd (for boys) and Oaklynn and Paisleigh (for girls) on the rise — per the Social Security Administration’s most recent fastest-growing baby names report, released in May — it’s likely to become an increasingly common phenomenon.
“People are working a lot harder to come up with a name that is really distinctive and has a lot of personal meaning,” says Pamela Redmond Satran, co-founder and CEO of baby naming site Nameberry.com.
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I worked with a black woman named Margarine. Pronounced Marj-a-REEN.
Two of my favorite people whom I’ve never met are named Evelyn and Helen.
Knew a girl in college named April May January. Good thing she had a sense of humor.
Padraic and Sheamus are tough to pronounce-——yet common Irish names.
The bastardization of the name “Sean” appalls me -—Shawn, Shon,Shaun etc.
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Great corned beef and cabbage!
In my get-high skool, there were twin black girls named Johnny and Michael, and I once worked with a guy named Shirley.
“Great corned beef and cabbage! “
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One of my favorite meals———I’d forgive anything for one of those dinners.
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Bondi. I forget the other kid’s name. It’s equally dumb.
Burleigh Heads?
Good lord
I have seen a black girl named Lavoris
Yeah, congratulations on the birth of a future stripper.
I'm waiting for an "Ebola".
My grandpa was Shadrack (diff spelling). He actually came from a line of Shadrachs/ks. And there was a Meshach and Abednego, too, somewhere in his ancestry.
“I’m waiting for an “Ebola”. “
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If you ever do find one she will probably be having an affair with Obama’s Ebola Czar,wherever he is hiding. :-)
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I’ll be long gone, but happily won’t have to witness all the tatted chicks parade their art on hot summer days - as grannys
Vyvyan ...
(pronounced like Vivian)
LOL.
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