Last One I Promise
You've been reading this long, you get the oeurve, the basic mise en scene
Really, though, this is the last one because even I am gettng sick of this and there was a point when I didn't think that was possible. But they aren't as astonishingly funny anymore. Still though, good while it lasted.
http://notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html
Part IV
I have come across two names that had me scratching my head recently. One was a bank teller's name - Sharmonica. Another was the name of a customer - Cherith. Sounds like she has a speech impediment, doesn't it?
Update! Reader Allison points out Cherith is in the Bible. It's not the name of a person, however, but the name of the brook God commands Elijah to go sit and wait by. (1 Kings 17:3) As he hides there, God sends ravens twice a day to bring him food. After a while, the brook dries up and God tells Elijah to move on to a widow's house. Then, to add to God's "Simon Says" game with Elijah, he orders him to go talk to Ahab. Then they outfit the Pequod with mighty harpoons and start seeking the white whale. (OK, I made up that last part.)
And here's my unique name story. A sweet, wonderful, elderly couple we once shared a house with for a short time, Wade and Maxine, had only one daughter, so they decided to name her after *both* parents...
Yes, you guessed it, her name is Wadine.
Someone here on base is named Deanne. Now, wouldn't you think it's pronounced Dee-Ann since that's exactly how pretty much everyone named Dee-Ann spells it? But no, it's Dee-nah.
Sometimes names are frustrating.
Ha, that reminds me of a guy my DH went to school with... Keni (pronouned Kee-na)...go figure :)
I also went to school with a guy whose middle name was Jerome and insisted that it was pronounced Jeremy, and the Sherry who insisted it was pronounced Cheri (as in the french word).
I was born in the early 60's and went to school with a bunch of kids named Jennifer, Denise, Matt and Mike. My sister was born in the late 60's and went to school with kids named Rain, Autumn, Mountain, Tree (I do not jest!) and Orion. Better access to drugs in 1968 than in 1962 is responsible for this change, I guess...
What interests me is that the new round of names (at least among the 30/40-somethings I know naming babies now) have an incredible number of syllables and the sound of a family name, where no family name may exist-- Not Henry (that was so 1995!), but Harrison, not Gary (who would name a kid "Gary"?), but Garrison. There is Jackson, Jefferson, Jamison, Jerrison...WHEN WILL IT END???
Part X
Eagle-eyed and iron-stomached reader Virigina directed me to what may be the Necronomicon of Bad Baby Names, the pitch-black pit from which all bad names emerge: http://baby-names-etc.com/unique_baby_names.htm. The page is part of Baby-Names-Etc.com, which appears to be one of the hundred and hundreds poorly-put-together and apparently abandoned baby name sites on the web. There's no way to tell if it's an offshoot of a commercial site, someone's hobby, or what. Whatever it is, it's pretty cheap.....and EVIL!
Unique baby names are fun and unique baby names can be created in several ways. The ways to make a unique baby name is only limited by your imagination.
Wow. Comprehensive discussion as to why to create a name from scratch. "It's fun." Thanks.
- From the mother's name: A popular way to name a boy after his mother is to use her maiden name if it was Ward, Grey Parker, Davis, Ross, Cole, Taylor, Williams - or an equivalent. Or the mothers name can be transformed to a boy's name. Mary can become Martin, Marle, Marwin, Marson, Marren, etc. For a girl, it can be Mari, Marina, etc.
I can't put my finger on why, but the first sentence, about "equivalent"(?) last names strikes me as racist. Oh yeah, it's because those are white white snowy white names. So I'm naming my son Kleinman Yamaguchi Chan-Jackson Hernandez Mangosuthu Rajagopal. Smith.
- Combinations: Take the mother's and father's names and combine to create a new baby name. Mary and John could be Marjon, Daniel and Susan would be Dansan, David and Sally could be Dally not Salad! Alan and Mary make a very nice girls name Alray.
Marjon - a low calorie spread. I can't believe it's not Marjon!
Dansan - maybe if you're huge "Cheers" fans.
Dally - as a middle name. First name Dilly.
Alray - makers of fine face creams.
I had fun with this. I put my own parents' names (Mark & Susan - they're so very proud) in the Name Super Collider! and came up with:
Marsan, Masu, Markan, Musan, Mausa, Sark, Sumar, Sarsan, Suma, Surk, Susar, Sum, Susam, Susamar.
None of which I'd name my dog.
OK, I'd name a cat Mausa. Or Carl. There's just something funny about animals with mundane human names.
- Re-Spellings: Take a name like Marianne and make it MariAnne to create a new baby name. Arlene becomes ArLene. Catlin becomes CaitLin. Make Janet J'Net or J'Nette.
Oh, for cripe's sake! Is there a single person out there, a single, solitary person who thinks Marianne and MariAnne are different names? Could I get a show of hands? Anyone else thinking of SanDeE* in "L.A. Story"?
Second question: Does anyone think J'Net or J'Nette are pronounced "Janet" ("JA-net") and not "Jeanette" ("gin-ET")? Seeing as how an apostrophe is a lingual blank, and not, as many people think, accents. If I ever parlay this site into a wacky candid camera show, I'm going to sick Monsieur Martin, my incredibly aggressive former French teacher, on people to teach them a thing or two about accent marks. After three hours of him yelling, "C'est circumflex! N'est pas accent grande! Jamais!" the parents will be filing the name change paper work themselves. And crying.
When I was pregnant, I e-mailed someone that we were considering the name "Ryan" if we had a boy. I typed "Ryna" by mistake and my friend asked people in her office if they'd ever heard of the name "Ryna". Someone liked it and named her child that. Good thing I didn't accidentally write "ryno".
Ryna's not such a bad name. It's also good for your sinuses I work for head start and we have a pair of twins this year: Pookie Bair (like bear)and Poopsie Dier (like deer) both girls!
A few years ago we had a set of twins who were named: Hunter and Fischer (Fisher) and their last names was Farmer! Ugh!
Yes, but going back to the neolithic era we see Hunter Farmers are more advanced than Hunter Gatherers.
And Pookie and Poopsie. Were there ever two kids who needed Head Start more? I think we should take up a collection for them.