And Hebe is apparently an offensive nickname for Jews in America. But it's also a beautiful flowering shrub, and the name has been used occasionally since the early 1900s in England, and is apparently popular in Japan. (It originates from Greek Mythology -Hebe is the daughter of Zeus and hera and cupbearer to the gods -the goddess of youth, Juventas in Roman terms)
Srsly, there would be no names if we overthink it. Babies are still being named John, Willie, Dave and Dick. My niece just got named Orla. I so hope beest is wrong about what her nick-name will be when she gets to high school.
that said, I'm not into names with punctuation. Although, now I think it through, it's kind of a fun "fuck you" to grammar nazis. Spend years being told you're putting apostrophe's (
) in the wrong place... once it's on the birth cert it's the right place even if it follows no grammatical logic.
11-03-2011, 07:26 PM
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