I had a friend who knew an expectant Chinese woman whom she tried to talk out of naming the child “Jane”.
“But I like that name,” protested the Chinese mother.
“Trust me,” my friend said. “You do not want to have a child named ‘Jane Do’. Just trust me on this...”
Trust me, my friend said. You do not want to have a child named Jane Do. Just trust me on this...
A coworker’s first name choice for her expected daughter would have given her the initials “E.Z.” I pointed that out to her and she went with plan B.