Children's names

[awomaninsane]

Yes, let's just go back to weird names people have called their kids.

 

[Milkfloat]

You were saying that children with certain names are not capable of much.

In general yes, that seems to be the case. But, it is due mainly to the child or the background/opportunities they have.

 

[MontyVeda]

Yes, let's just go back to weird names people have called their kids.

Yes, lets!

A couple of odd names I've heard in recent years are Jacus, maybe the parents were torn between calling him Jacob or Marcus and amalgamated the two... and Ashley, which is a nice enough name but when hyphenated and spelt, Ash-Leigh... it sounds more like the name for a residential care home than a person.

 

[Milkfloat]

I am looking forward to some revisions, once Mrs Milkfloat gets home from school.

You can keep poking in from the sidelines with witty comments such as 'dig, dig, dig', but it may be more productive to call me out on what I have written. At least User does that.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

You can keep poking in from the sidelines with witty comments such as 'dig, dig, dig', but it may be more productive to call me out on what I have written. At least User does that.

I thought he was being supportive there, in a kind of jazz stylee 'I dig it' way.

 

[John the Monkey]

I thought he was being supportive there, in a kind of jazz stylee 'I dig it' way.

Nice.

 

[winjim]

Could someone remind me where to find the unwatch thread button?

 

[Milkfloat]

Why do I need to? @User13710 has said enough and @User has added to it. The very idea of dismissing children's capabilities on the strength of their name is utterly repellant.

We agree. The statistics, however, show that childrens name reflect their socioeconomic backgrounds, which is a key indicator to their expected attainment.

 

[Milkfloat]

That is not what you were arguing.

Back again to my first post - "In her opinion you can tell a lot about a person from their name, whether or not the parents choice of name reflects their parenting skill or the kid just lives up to their name I will leave you to decide."

I am not sure how many more times I can repeat myself.

So (see what I did there?), I will bow out with this. I went to school with a guy who had a first name of 'Tharp' he claimed it game from the norse god Thor, but we were never convinced,

 

[Aperitif]

As an aside, Germany, Sweden, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, New Zealand, China and Norway all have restrictions on what you are allowed to call your child.

For a moment, I thought that was a list of your favourite fancy children's names. Reg.

 

[Aperitif]

Nice.

Borrowing from 'the missus' again JtM...

 

[John the Monkey]

Borrowing from 'the missus' again JtM...

I am very fortunate to be married to a beautiful genius, admittedly.

 

[summerdays]

Margaret and Hilda are names of which I not overly fond.

I think Hilda might be the name of an Aunt, I've never been entirely certain as we started calling her that and ended up calling her Hilary. (So I assume she didn't like it)

 

[summerdays]

.....but her surname wasn't Roberts or Thatcher was it?

No ... but she is nuts!!!

 

[Brains]

t the little girl was called Beetroot. I kid you not. Beetroot. I mean, seriously?
Anyone beat Beetroot?

Vegetation is quite popular in the use of names, although I'll grant you not a lot of root vegetables, although I came across a Mr Onions last week and I've met a Mr Radish.
I've met a couple of Lettuces, but when we get to flowers, there are lots, Daisy, Rose, Heather, Hyacinth, etc.
We should not forget our own Royalty, the Plantagenent family is old French for plant Broom as in ( Gold Plant)