[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Names

[Kathryn Cawte]

My father, who I swear is a normal sane person, most of the time, wanted to name me Amanda Belinda so that I'd have the initials ABC. Now both are lovely names, especially Amanda which I particularly like, however put together they sound awful. Of course up until the point I was born both my parents referred to me as Manfred!

Sage isn't so bad, I like that, it's not out and out hippie like River or Tree. Isn't Stallone's son called Sage - of course they probably could have called him anything, I mean no-one is going to pick on *his* son :)
Hmm, Cinnamon, there's a song called that. The parents were probably the right age to know it too. Sounds more like a pet name to me. It would be really good for a pet dog ... That's the most positive thin I can think of to say about it, oh and I suppose the girl could shorten it to Cin, which would sound quite cool.

Someone was saying about putting titles before names to see what they sounded like. I was told you could tell if a name was nouveau riche by putting King/Queen in front of it, if it sound stupid it's nouveau riche

K
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: athene_51 
  To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 6:04 PM
  Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Names



  I swear that normally sane people lose their minds when naming 
  children! I read something (can't remember what) a while ago by a 
  woman writing about her name. When she was born, her parents had a 
  list of names - one of their favourites was "Lee" (or "Lea"). But her 
  last name was "King" - Leaking, anyone? :) And, if she had been a
  boy, 
  they were going to name her "Mark".

  Odd names - they never end. My cousin named her son Sage. I think
  it's 
  a nice name, actually, but most of my relatives were horrified ("It's 
  a hippie name!"). My mom once taught a girl named Cinnamon (!), and a 
  Robert Robertson. I know someone whose name is Xena (really), and
  have 
  met a Beeb, and a Peter Petersen.



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