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Naming your baby
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| 6/26/06
| Pat Burson
Posted on 06/27/2006 10:33:31 AM PDT by qam1
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To: qam1
If you read Freakonomics, there's a whole chapter on whether baby names impact how kids turn out. They give the example of a mom who named her kid "Shitteed". No data available on darling, little Shitteed's SAT scores yet.
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:41:48 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The last President from VA named George was good too! Allen in 2008!)
To: agooga
Personal fave? Scientific Mapp and his brother, Majestic.
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:42:05 AM PDT
by
Gefreiter
("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
To: qam1
There was a study relesed recently that strongly indicated "made up" names doom people to low-paying jobs and low expectations. Wish I could find it. I always wonder why people saddle their kids with names like "Krymzen" or "Shaniqua".
I picked "Joseph Paul" for my little guy. Classic.
To: qam1
They got it wrong. Celebs give their kids names with weird spellings because so many celebs are illiterate. If you think I'm kidding just talk to someone who's worked with celebs on set. They need script coaches to tell them what to say because they can't read simple English.
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:42:45 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
To: RebelBanker; Mikey_1962
FYI, there is a male child named "Forrest" each generation who is a direct descendant of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Nowadays they would named "Forrestt" or "Foresst" or somesuch.
When parents get cute with the spelling (or worse, pronunciation), they sentence their kids to a entire life time of correcting people and misspelled documents, awards and the like.
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:44:26 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The Left created, embraces and feeds "The Culture of Hate." Make it part of the political lexicon!)
To: ziggy_dlo
I had a sister in Law who worked with "slow" children. She had a kid in her class with the first name spelled "Shithead." It was pronounced Shith-eed' She showed us her grade/progress book to prove it. She had another child with something similiar but I do not remember it. She says that the school demanded to see a birth certificate before they would accept the child with the name given into the class. Apparently they did.
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:44:55 AM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
(War Monger...In the name of liberty, let's go to war!!!!)
To: psychoknk
"Why do people give a damn what others name their kids? Oh wait, do we need the government to step in and make a law about this?"
Chill-- it's just fun to rag on people's bad taste sometimes... sheesh.
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:45:25 AM PDT
by
agooga
(I lied-- No one died.)
To: All
One of my favorite girl names is Tabitha. Does anyone else like it, or not?
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:46:47 AM PDT
by
NYC Republican
(GOP is the worst political party, except for all the others...)
To: .cnI redruM
Freakonomics is where I encountered Lemonjelo and Orangelo-- very amusing chapter.
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:47:13 AM PDT
by
agooga
(I lied-- No one died.)
To: qam1
I have an unusual name, and gave my kids unusual names too. It hasn't been a hardship.
When I was little, everyone was Mary or Susan or Cathy or John.
When my children were little, you couldn't swing the old cat without hitting a Jessica, a Jennifer, a Jason or a Christopher. Maybe that's a hardship.
To: qam1
To: SortaBichy
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:48:40 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Meep Meep)
To: qam1
And she frowns on another trend, in which parents put a unique spin on the spellings of their children's names. For instance, Riley now has alternate spellings such as Rilee and Riliegh. And Courtney has morphed into such spellings as Kortnee or Courtenay - sometimes leaving others wondering how to pronounce it.
A pox on parents who misspell their children's names.
Misspelling your daughter's name means she will be a stripper. It's been proven. Kayleigh and Kandei and Dakoda and Madicyn will so testify.
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:49:04 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(We all know power corrupts, yet we all want electricity.)
To: qam1
I always thought "Shemp" would be a good name for a boy. Much funnier than Curly.
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:49:30 AM PDT
by
exile
(Mrs. Exile - "Yes you're the greatest husband ever, now put on some pants")
To: qam1; Phantom Lord
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:49:47 AM PDT
by
bwteim
(bwteim = Begin With The End In Mind. Save your finger - Oct 5, 2001)
To: agooga
I think I can beat those examples. A 5th grader in my sister in-law's 5th grade class is named Unique Beaver.
To: qam1
I've just scanned the article, but I'll respond with my usual rules for this topic:
Don't spell the name wrong (It's Cody, not Kodee; It's Brittany, not Brytnee).
Make sure it sounds good after an elected title. (Senator Apple Paltrow or Congressman Moon Unit Zappa doesn't strike me).
If you want to call the baby Lizzie, Bob, Jack or Danny, then name it Elizabeth, Robert, John or Daniel. That first series are nicknames for the real names in the second series.
I'm not as strong on this one, and although intermarriage and the "melting pot" can make this challenging, try try try to have very obviously ethnic names "blend" nicely. Vladimir Gutierrez, Juan O'Malley, Mary Margeret Wong and Ashley Garcia just don't "flow" nicely to me.
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:50:02 AM PDT
by
hispanarepublicana
(Don't fall for the soft bigotry of assuming all Hispanics are pro-amnesty. www.dontspeakforme.org)
To: qam1
That's what director Ron Howard and wife, Cheryl, did with three of their four children, whose middle names reflect the place where they were conceived.
Tacky, tacky, TACKY.
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:50:23 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(We all know power corrupts, yet we all want electricity.)
To: qam1
The only reason Hollyweirds name their kids like this is because of their huge egos...Sort of like Trump naming his kid "Baron", or the all time Champion of God like egos, Michael Jackson, who couldn`t help name his kids who are not his "Prince Michael Jackson Jr" (how can you name a kid "Jr" if the father isn`t named Prince? Oh that`s right, Michael is a Prince) and "Paris Michael" and "Prince Michael Jackson III"...Just couldn`t resist that Prince name again.
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:51:06 AM PDT
by
Screamname
(Is your terror group depressed? Call 1-800-Demo-crats.....We give hope!)
To: tcostell
LOL...took me a second, but yes I got it.
My wife and I have just started to discuss baby names. Not expecting yet, but hopefully someday soon.
We're both primarily of Irish decent, and I am also a good portion German, so we want to have somewhat "cultured" names. Although my wife is insistent about having a son named Sebastian...I'm not really set against it, I just have other names (for a boy) that I'd like to use first.
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posted on
06/27/2006 10:51:44 AM PDT
by
CT-Freeper
(Said the perpetually dejected Mets fan.)
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