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I LOVE THE CRACK BABY FIC.
esorlehcar, you were right. it is utterly brilliant omg. NEED MORE GIMME.
now must read author's entire back catalogue.
still, though: candace? *shudder* i figure the author's american, because there's this whole big english thing about names that americans don't seem to get.
extrapolation:
we english still have a class system, whether you like it or not. it's purportedly much less rigid than previously, and to an extent i agree, but nonetheless it still exists. in 'ye olde days', names were very much a mark of social class. if you look at old records, you'll find that people in the trades, for example, would go through different trends in terms of naming than people from the nobility.
saying that, there have always been a stock set of names - usually of biblical origin - that don't signify anything much to do with social status. however, 'faddy' names are often a good guide to the class of the parents. the daily telegraph publishes two name lists every year. it's a broadsheet paper with a largely white, middle-class readership. the first name list contains the ten most popular boys' and girls' names across britain, the second contains the ten most popular etc as taken from the birth announcements column of the telegraph. there is a big difference.
any name made popular through a tv show, or a pop singer, or a footballer, generally has working-class connotations. sixteen or seventeen years ago, the number of baby girls named 'kylie' shot up from, like, 0 to about a million. i've known quite a few kylies (or variations thereon - kayleigh, keeley, pretty much any name beginning with a 'k' except for kirsty, which is scottish and therefore exempt) and they were all working class. this leads me on to my next point.
dom is middle-class. candace is a working-class name. furthermore, it's a stripper name, as someone else said. i really doubt that he would give his baby a STRIPPER NAME, you know. grr.
by the way, this is not an attack on the working classes, it's just an observation i've made. *paranoia*
esorlehcar, you were right. it is utterly brilliant omg. NEED MORE GIMME.
now must read author's entire back catalogue.
still, though: candace? *shudder* i figure the author's american, because there's this whole big english thing about names that americans don't seem to get.
extrapolation:
we english still have a class system, whether you like it or not. it's purportedly much less rigid than previously, and to an extent i agree, but nonetheless it still exists. in 'ye olde days', names were very much a mark of social class. if you look at old records, you'll find that people in the trades, for example, would go through different trends in terms of naming than people from the nobility.
saying that, there have always been a stock set of names - usually of biblical origin - that don't signify anything much to do with social status. however, 'faddy' names are often a good guide to the class of the parents. the daily telegraph publishes two name lists every year. it's a broadsheet paper with a largely white, middle-class readership. the first name list contains the ten most popular boys' and girls' names across britain, the second contains the ten most popular etc as taken from the birth announcements column of the telegraph. there is a big difference.
any name made popular through a tv show, or a pop singer, or a footballer, generally has working-class connotations. sixteen or seventeen years ago, the number of baby girls named 'kylie' shot up from, like, 0 to about a million. i've known quite a few kylies (or variations thereon - kayleigh, keeley, pretty much any name beginning with a 'k' except for kirsty, which is scottish and therefore exempt) and they were all working class. this leads me on to my next point.
dom is middle-class. candace is a working-class name. furthermore, it's a stripper name, as someone else said. i really doubt that he would give his baby a STRIPPER NAME, you know. grr.
by the way, this is not an attack on the working classes, it's just an observation i've made. *paranoia*