Or Gordon.
Times have changed. Remember all the awful names parents were choosing in the late 80s? Yeah, those babies are now sitting next to me in Anthro 1160, and it's not pretty.
Consider:
- Ashly (not a misspelling. I mean, it is, but it's not my mistake)
- Brianna
- Brittany
- Caite (rhymes with fate, not kite)
- Chrystal
- Dane (that's pronounced duh NAE, and it's a girl)
- Deana (and that's pronounced DEE nuh)
To go further in the alphabet is too depressing. You get the idea.
It's like a Miss Teen USA pageant gone horribly, horribly wrong.
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But something tells me that Concordia remains unchanged; e.g., Kristen, Erik, Bjørn, Marit, . . . I'll bet you won't find those names at your Methodist-affiliated institution.
OMG.
I cannot wait to read Deb's analysis of these names and the parents that picked them. Dane is duh NAE?!? Shouldn't there someone approving these names? I nominate Scott as chair!
Chilling. Actually, this whole observation about the names of your fellow students sounds like the basis of a social anthropology paper to me.
signed: Rynda (someone named in the late 40's (!) and an expert on what it's like to have an atypical name)
I have two Bretts this year (boys), most likely not named for Lady Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises, (which should make Scott happy, given his caustic reaction to Hemingway earlier this week), more likely thanks to current MTV reality star, Poison front man Bret Michaels, he of the teased, blond locks and black eye liner (which probably doesn't make Scott feel any better about the age of todays' typical collegiate student).
I'll see your Brianna with a pair, and I'll raise you a Ciana (see-AHN-a). And no, she's not named after an ED scrip. True that.
deb: i think eric m is trying to get me to act out on your blog. i feel the pull of it.
scott: are you going to give in?
deb: almost certainly.
scott: i thought so
I sold my mother's car to a kid named D'Mon. I didn't see it spelled out but I was trying to figure out who'd name their kid Demon. Call him that maybe, but actually NAME him that.
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