[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Popular and Unpopular Names

[Terry James]

>From: "Przemyslaw Plaskowicki" <przepla at ipartner.com.pl>
> >
>You Americans are so lucky if you can completely make children's name. ;-)

I never thought of it that way.  There are times when I have thought that 
parents have been too creative with their naming, but I guess I'm grateful 
for the opportunity.

Case in point, I promise this is true:  There's a clerk at a law firm in my 
city who pronounces her name "Sha-theed."  If you look at her nameplate on 
her desk, it is spelled "S-H-*-T-H-E-A-D" and yes, that missing letter is 
what you think it is.  She says her parents named her that and she is 
keeping it.  I don't know if they saw it spraypainted on a wall and thought, 
"Oh, what a lovely name for a girl!" or what.  Sometimes you just have to 
wonder.


Sin D.C. wrote,

>Hey, it could be worse!  My grandfather's name was "Sam," and they wanted a 
>son.  So when my mother was born, they named her "Sammie."  Not Samantha.  
>"Sammie."  She hates it -- how many times can one person be asked "Is that 
>your *real* name?" --  but has never worked up the courage to change it.


Sin D.C.

When I was nine, I read the book "Shepherd of the Hills" twelve times in a 
row.  One of the main characters is Sammie Lane (female).  The play is 
pretty well-known; I guess she could tell people the name comes from the 
book.  The character is pretty admirable too--a liberated woman who was 
still "ladylike" (a compliment, not an insult as that word seems to be now) 
way back before that was popular, a backwoods girl who wanted to make more 
of herself to be "worthy" of the man she was going to marry, and then 
realized that she deserved way better than him.  Go Sammie!


Kathryn wrote:

>I have to ask - which one? Because unless you picked Delenn or G'Kar that
>doesn't sound too bad (whereas the lotr names I mentioned are just an open
>invitation for your child to be beaten up by other kids at every 
>oportunity)

K


Oh, well....I did pick Delenn.  I absolutely love the character--she is what 
I want to be when I grow up!  (Plus she winds up with Sheridan, the sexiest 
man in a white shirt ever :)  )  I liked the name, and figured it was 
"mainstream" enough that nobody would pick on her, even if they found out 
her middle name.

If she was a boy, I was lobbying for "Meriadoc", but my dh for some reason 
didn't like that one.


Derannimer wrote,

>What! *Please* tell me that the middle name is "Delenn." *Please.* I *love* 
>that name.

Derannimer, who almost started posting to this group *as*
"Delenn"


See above!  If my name couldn't be Delenn, I could darn well make sure 
*somebody's* was.  :D

Terry LJ

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