SC - Re: OT: Naming

[Michael Newton]

I remember a Mark Russell Comedy Special from some time back where he
laments that the nursing homes in next senior generation was going to be
full of Debbies  not Deborah's, Debbies. Of course some of the people in the
US need to learn that Tristan is a boys name, and I 'm sure we have girls
names on boys I just can't think of any.

Thorbjorn
Named by Children, Linda and Caleb.  So they couldn't be shortened to
anything vulgar. My Wife's name is Elizabeth and she hates Liz and Beth.
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From: <RichSCA at aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: SC - Re: OT: Naming


> I find that I want to agree what somewhere this "name your kid whatever
mess
> you want" has gone to far in the States. I worked for the government in
the
> payroll department for years and saw a mess of mess.
>
> I had a lady who's mother named her Placenta (because it sounded nice- she
> had no idea what it meant) And I could go on and on with other terrible
names.
>
> BUT the one that interested me most was a man named Baby Boy "Smith".
(I'm
> changing his real last name).  I had the opportunity to actually go to his
> military unit and so I asked the Unit Clerk about the name.  Seems he was
> born at home in Georgia and his parents had not yet picked out his name.
The
> doctor just registered the boy's sex on the certificate of delivery - Baby
> Boy.  When the time limit for registering his name ran out a certificate
was
> issued in the name "Baby Boy Smith" and the family just left it that way
> (Why, I do not know -- maybe it would have cost something to correct it).
I
> asked the Unit Clerk what name he goes by and he said bee (BB).  I
remarked
> that as an adult I would have changed it and that he must have had a
terrible
> time in school.  I was informed that he is a HUGE FARMHAND type-of -guy
and
> really kind and nice and that he never had any trouble at all.  Hmmmmmmm.
>
> Rayne
>
> In a message dated 3/30/00 8:58:42 AM Central Standard Time,
> baronsig at peganet.com writes:
>
> <<
>       My mother used to be a social worker, and told the story of one of
her
>  clients who had a baby girl named Female (pronounced Fee-molly). When my
>  mother asked how she had come up with such an unusually sounding name,
the
>  girl replied that she hadn't named the child, the hospital had . . .
>      I knew a pair of twin boys named Romeo and Juliet (worse than being
>  named Sue, I'll bet), and the minority (afro/french/creole composite)
names
>  people are coming up with nowadays are going to be the despair of
>  onamasticians in future ages. Ya gotta wonder if, say, 500 years from
now,
>  there will be a society devoted to re-creating 20th-21st century culture
. .
>  .
>
>      Sieggy
>
>  > And yes, we do have a list of approved baby names. So do the other
Nordic
>  > countries, I believe. But people will in the majority of cases get
>  approval
>  > for a name that isn´t on the list. We used to have a system that was
very
>  > much like the SCA naming rules, as I´ve understood them - if you could
>  > document that the name you wanted had been used a number of times
within a
>  > given period, it was approved. Now it is much easier to get approval.
>  >
>  > Nanna
>
>   >>
>
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