Weird names

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

According to a TV show, there is a kid getting about whose name is pronounced Absidee ... but spelled Abcde.

Child abuse, this is.

I wanted to name our youngest "Qwerty" because it's easy to type.

It's not just a cultural thing. Look at Bob Geldof's kids' names: Fifi Trixibelle , Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa Geldof, and Little Pixie. And what's with all the trendy suburban non-name names like Hunter, Shelby, Dakota, Madison, Brooklyn, etc? Ok, so they are actual words, but they're no more a name than Linoleum is.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

I wanted to name our youngest "Qwerty" because it's easy to type.

I hope cooler heads prevailed.

It's not just a cultural thing. Look at Bob Geldof's kids' names: Fifi Trixibelle , Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa Geldof, and Little Pixie. And what's with all the trendy suburban non-name names like Hunter, Shelby, Dakota, Madison, Brooklyn, etc? Ok, so they are actual words, but they're no more a name than Linoleum is.

Mr. Geldof demonstrates how disadvantageous a disadvantageous given name can be.

I am waiting for the eventual manifestation of a little urban girl named -- Apostrophe. Even if her daddy goes around saying, "Yep, she was about that big when, etc."

"Homegrown country names," however pleasant the sounds strung together may be, do not suit my sense of the fitness of things. Every given name out there at least at one time actually meant something. Miscellaneous syllables do not.

Except maybe as and for Far Eastern car models. Being inanimate, they can't be hurt by it.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Except maybe as and for Far Eastern car models. Being inanimate, they can't be hurt by it.

Like Harley.