Sometimes trivial things drive me to distraction. One that makes me cringe every day is unfortunate names for children. Okay, sometimes it borders on amusement too. That's not a bad thing, amusement makes my day go a lot more smoothly. How brain-dead does one have to be to name a child Midas? Naming your child after an eighth-century monarch when you live in a semi-slum part of town brings a new meaning to the word irony. Poor Midas, the nearest he is going to get to gold is a National Lottery scratchcard.
An interesting phonetic misspelling of Ammalee or Jorja doesn't make you interesting. Adding a silent letter to Jayson doesn't merit you as a literary genius. Both just mean that your child is going to go through life with everyone misspelling their names. Well, spelling it correctly for 99% of the population, but not to the interesting niche of the population that you think you belong to. Well done, take a bow, you are a true in-duh-vidual.
Wednesday, 18 April 2007
Another bad name (part three)
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My favorites are the people who name their kids after drugs
Hey, thanks for the blogroll link. I once had a mom whose twin daughters were named (no kidding) Avandia and Viagra.
Btw, thanks for the link in your blogroll. :)
Andrew, pharmcountry.net
Midas is an auto repair company in my part of the world which adds a whole 'nother level of tackiness to the thought of naming a kid Midas.
You would enjoy would of my favorite sites.
http://www.bigbadbabynames.com/forum/
Endless snark on bad names.
Oh no... I see this, too.
Made up names, like Karangelica tend to get my goat as well.
And misspellings of standard names. Chloe is spelled exactly like that, and not Kloueigh.
Goodness.
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