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RE: Some people's parents - 7/30/2008 5:03:31 PM   
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]What not to do: As a young lady why she is named October when she was born in July

Yikes!!! Think...what month might this child have been conceived to be born in July....

Explain that to your five year old when they ask Mommy, why is my name October????

I always think parents should consider , How is that going to look on a resume' someday?

Adidas Smith... hmmm.
Reebok Anderson .... lovely
Pepsi Olsen... excellent as long as she doesn't apply at CocaCola.

And for the Niss family, I recommend always spelling your name, no First Initial, last name.

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RE: Some people's parents - 7/31/2008 4:02:30 AM   
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Theresa Green, Aphrodite Cox and Amanda Marin


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Aphrodite is the classical Greek goddess of love, lust, beauty, and sexual reproduction. Combine that with a last name like Cox and the fact that she taught Physical Development in a school and you have all the worst combinations.

Amanda Marin said really fast becomes A Mandarin.

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/5/2008 5:44:21 PM   
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And what is the significance of the inititials JNR? If it were DNR, then i would get it, but what does JNR stand for?

JNR = Junior. While it always seems fairly common for Americans to tag Jnr onto a son's name, it's not so common in other parts of the world.



OK, it took me a while to get back to this thread, but I wanted to say that I have never, in my entire life, seen Junior abreviated as JNR! It's always been Jr. Where do you live where they put the N in it?

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/5/2008 6:24:49 PM   
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And what is the significance of the inititials JNR? If it were DNR, then i would get it, but what does JNR stand for?

JNR = Junior. While it always seems fairly common for Americans to tag Jnr onto a son's name, it's not so common in other parts of the world.



OK, it took me a while to get back to this thread, but I wanted to say that I have never, in my entire life, seen Junior abreviated as JNR! It's always been Jr. Where do you live where they put the N in it?
Kylie is from the "Land Down Under" (Australia)

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/5/2008 8:01:43 PM   
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I know of a girl named Tannen Baum. That's cute.
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RE: Some people's parents - 8/5/2008 8:09:27 PM   
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I know of a girl named Tannen Baum. That's cute.

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/6/2008 7:18:33 AM   
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No wonder I was confustimicating everyone!

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/6/2008 10:59:47 AM   
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And what is the significance of the inititials JNR? If it were DNR, then i would get it, but what does JNR stand for?

JNR = Junior. While it always seems fairly common for Americans to tag Jnr onto a son's name, it's not so common in other parts of the world.

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And what is wrong wioth Peter and andrew Niss? Don't get that one either.
Sometimes you just gotta let the names run around your mind for a while. Took me a minute to get there too.


Pete Niss

*snigger*

Sadly I just got this.

What cruel parents. *sigh*

I grew up with a girl named Brandy Wine, Cinderella, Honey Bee, John Johnson and Evan Evans.

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/6/2008 11:24:35 AM   
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I've met women who have named their children Allegra and Gouda. Allergy medication and a cheese. Hmmm

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/6/2008 11:27:37 AM   
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I've met women who have named their children Allegra and Gouda. Allergy medication and a cheese. Hmmm

Allegra I can see. It's either a musical term, or a play on a musical term. But I heard that name waaay before I heard of the medicine.

Gouda? That's just harsh.

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/6/2008 11:34:40 AM   
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I've met women who have named their children Allegra and Gouda. Allergy medication and a cheese. Hmmm

Allegra I can see. It's either a musical term, or a play on a musical term. But I heard that name waaay before I heard of the medicine.



I've heard of the daughters of a music teacher being named Allegro and Arpeggio ... and they go by Ally and Peggy ...

I'm a musician myself, by I can't see myself naming any of my kids after musical terms ... or anything else like that! (I'll stick to the family and Biblical names ... although I put my foot down at dh's joking 'suggestion' of naming ds Nimrod because "it is in the Bible" ... LOL)

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/6/2008 12:27:18 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Focusing

I've met women who have named their children Allegra and Gouda. Allergy medication and a cheese. Hmmm

Allegra I can see. It's either a musical term, or a play on a musical term. But I heard that name waaay before I heard of the medicine.



I've heard of the daughters of a music teacher being named Allegro and Arpeggio ... and they go by Ally and Peggy ...

I'm a musician myself, by I can't see myself naming any of my kids after musical terms ... or anything else like that! (I'll stick to the family and Biblical names ... although I put my foot down at dh's joking 'suggestion' of naming ds Nimrod because "it is in the Bible" ... LOL)

it could be worse....just think of all the other even weirder Biblical names he could choose to joke about....ones you can't even spell, much less say!!!!

My brothers two girls have very weird names...weird enough that on his web site he has an audio clip of how to properly pronounce them....everyone says them wrong still though.


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RE: Some people's parents - 8/6/2008 2:33:12 PM   
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LOL ... yeah ... I only remember the Nimrod part of his suggestion ... it was Nimrod and then two or three of those unpronounceable names ...

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/6/2008 7:46:13 PM   
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LOL ... yeah ... I only remember the Nimrod part of his suggestion ... it was Nimrod and then two or three of those unpronounceable names ...

lol

when I was a kid my mom made us name all our animals with Biblical names. My brother wanted to name one dog we got "Moreover"...because he found a translation that had a scripture that started "Moreover, the dog.....". LOL. Now that brother has a cat named Melchizedek...lol.


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RE: Some people's parents - 8/16/2008 8:56:56 AM   
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Have to wonder why someone would call their child Nastia. Pronounced correctly, it's quite pretty. Pronounced incorrectly... well.

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/16/2008 9:06:52 AM   
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I would bet that even pronounced incorrectly in its native language it doesn't mean anything bad. If you are thinking of Nastia Luickin (sp?) she was born in Russia so it's not like she was in an English speaking country where her parents could think that being pronounced wrong would be nasty

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/16/2008 9:22:01 AM   
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I was and I've just checked her out. Nastia is a nickname.

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/16/2008 10:43:58 AM   
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]What not to do: As a young lady why she is named October when she was born in July

Yikes!!! Think...what month might this child have been conceived to be born in July....

Explain that to your five year old when they ask Mommy, why is my name October????


My eldest dd's middle name is April and she was born in November. Why? For her father it was an important new beginning for him as he had prayed long and hard for a daughter. We did however have to change the spelling of her first name as we definitely did NOT want her initials being E.A.T.. Nope we did not want those therapy bills!!

Our eldest on the other hand also has an interesting initial combination but we left his as is as they just seemed to fit his personality - even at birth! T.N.T. just fit this child!

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/16/2008 10:59:11 AM   
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LOL

My DD is ASH. My SIl wanted to name her DD one thing but the intials would have spelled ARM but her husband didn't want her initials to spell something so they changed it.

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/16/2008 11:38:56 AM   
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Theresa Green, Aphrodite Cox and Amanda Marin


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Yep, we had a Teresa Green at school too, and she never heard the last of it.

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/16/2008 11:40:34 AM   
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My husband sold one of his paintings to a man called Peter File.

(that sounds worse with the English pronunciation than the American, but I am sure y'all will get it)

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/16/2008 12:14:39 PM   
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Our fourth's name is Jackson....goes by Jack often...and his initials spell out JAC....lol (not planned)

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/16/2008 12:18:27 PM   
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Some of the girls' names we considered made some interesting acronyms....

Olivia Ryanne (O.R.K.)
Ryanne Elizabeth (R.E.K. "I'm a ramblin' wrek from Georgia Tech and a heck of an engineer")
Olivia Abigail (O.A.K.)

There were a few more, but those are the ones we actually considered for a time.

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/16/2008 12:23:07 PM   
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We liked the name Matt, but our surname is White. So he would have been Matt White, which here is paint. So we crossed that one off the list!

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RE: Some people's parents - 8/16/2008 1:19:14 PM   
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although I put my foot down at dh's joking 'suggestion' of naming ds Nimrod because "it is in the Bible" ...


Hey now, I have a brother in law with that name! Another is named Zebedee. Another one has an Ethiopian name which sounds a bit like Reuben, but it actually means "You are handsome".

We had two little girls in our church, twins, who were named Trinity and Divinity.

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