Posted on 03/30/2006 12:41:35 PM PST by twippo
We had African-American twins in school several years ago with exactly the same name. He went by the first name and she went by the middle name.
the twins across the street are Nicholas and Dakota....Nic and Cody. cody got screwed.
I once knew a guy named Richard Head. His parents were cruel people.
One of my Catholic friends gave me the advice once...see how the name sounds with "Father" or "Governor" in front of it. It weeded a lot of names out as they sounded really dorky with titles.
Richard Allred isn't much better.
I remember the 18th-Century preachers Cotton Mather and Increase Mather.
Wacky. But not as wacky as naming your kid some of the things noted in the article.
I used to listen Lionel, a talk show host in NY, who used to be a school teacher. He swore that he once had a student whose name was spelled Sh*th**d and pronounced Shy-theed.
I doubt if LS will think it's funny. *snicker*
My father was an avid reader of Greek literature, knew the Greek language and so forth. In 1967, he stuck me with the name Charissa (a derivative of charis, the greek word for grace). He wanted to name me Penelope Daphne but my mom threatened to leave me at the hospital if he did. My younger brother got a good solid normal name. What's so bad is I had a lisp when I was little and when asked my name it sounded as if I was saying Charitha. Even now when I have to spell it over the phone I am asked if that's "f-f-a" instead of "s-s-a".
Here! Here!
I had a neighbor who named her (no father in the home) child after a semi-precious gem, but misspelled it on his birth certificate. I don't want to write the exact name, so this is a simulation of how it was spelled. Should have been "amethyst" but was "Emynthanst." And the kid is a boy.
There's actually an "approved list of baby names", in Germany, right now. My daughter's friend had a baby there ( her husband is German, but he is on his way to becoming an American citizen )almost two years ago and thankfully, for her, the name she and her husband had decided to name their son, was on the "approved list" and spelled the way they intended to spell it.
Actually in that case a car company was named after her rather then the other way around.
I can relate to your wife. I left a nice four letter last name to marry into a spelling test everytime I give my new last name.
This morning I saw where Kelly Kelly was named asst. Women's Soccer Coach at Bentley College. A '98 grad, she was the school's best ever soccer goalie.
So, you can overcome a bad name.
I am not making this up - my mom's a nurse and used to work in the newborn nursery. She once told me about a woman who named her newborn girl "Placenta", because right after her delivery she heard the doctor say that word, and she thought it was pretty.
Louis Farrakhan African Name Generator:
http://www.fadetoblack.com/namegenerator/
"Enter below the white man's label from which you wish to unshackle yourself and a true name for our brothers and sisters shall be granted to you."
Diana is "Zaghaw" in African. (Yeah, right.)
"Best of luck, and remember with your new African name you can now enjoy being different like everyone else."
You are automatically relegated in the minds of many to second-class citizenry, because when they hear the name, they instantly categorize you as ignorant, ghetto, incompetent, uneducated...
Harsh, but true.
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