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Originally Posted by Coppertop
Horrible thing to name your daughters:
Sonja (pronounced SAWN-yuh)
Tanya (pronouced TAN-yuh)
Ugh.
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I thought Sonja was more SOWN-yuh...
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2. If you're going to call your kid Tom, don't name him Thomas. If you're going to call them Jen, don't name them Jennifer. Name them what you are going to call them. I have utmost respect for my coworker Ben's parents, who simply named him Ben. Not Benjamin, just Ben.
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I'm actuallly the total opposite. It give the kid NO options. What if they'd PREFER to be called Benjamin, and instead you put Ben on the BC. I want my kids to have all their options open.
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Example, my name is Grant. That's what my parents named me, that's what my friends call me. But on my birth certificate, it says Christopher (first name) Grant (middle name).
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My dad is the same way, because they actually screwed up at the hospital, and they didn't find out until he went to get his driver's license. So, his name is Marion Paul...But it lets us know when it's telemarketers calling, cause they use his first name.
Then my parents named my brother after a great grandparent, but they hated the first name (William) so they use his middle name (Kavanaugh). This causes a number of problems, one of which was him being listed under 3 different names in our year book.
I want French names, that are moderately pronouncable...And nothing that's going to be mispronounced in English, like Nanci (which in French has emphasis on the second syllable, not the first).