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more about #nomenclature more comments → CurtCole: AlnmouthBedwynLacockShrewsbury...these are my favorite. more » LAmonkeygirl: I absolutely love English place names. Merkin-Upon-Taint Crotchfield Green Greatsnatch Lower Asshat Upper Eschalon more » Mary McCarthyite: English PLace-Names are...rather evocative! [www.s-gabriel.org] Drax: could be the name of the next Jolie-Pitt Cockermouth: pretty self-explanatory more » Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: These are all such White names. more » NellMood: As an Emma I am deeply disappointed to read this. Luckily I have never ever been called Emma and have always gone by my middle name, which I'm pretty ... more » Academy Queen: My mother named me Gretchen and for a long time I wish she hadn't. I always favored long grand names like Anastasia or Alexandra, Russian Empress name... more » I'm Chuck Bass: I swear to god I am not making this up. I very briefly worked in child protection and there were newborn twins in the program. Their names were Lucife... more » ElleL: I knew kids name Limonjelo and Oranjelo. Named AFTER the mothers favorite JELLO FLAVORS. LEMON JELLO and ORANGE JELLO. more » stacyinbean: Also, a good friends' son has a boy in his afterschool program named God. Straight up, G-O-D. more » NewsBunny: I hate it when you find a name you like for any future children and then you meet someone is a total dick/bitch with the SAME NAME, ruining it forever. more » ElleL: I have always loved the name Grace, as it is my Grandmother's name. But lately it is way too popular for my taste. Argh. more » Chivone: I always liked taking a popular girl's name and naming a boy it, or vice versa. I am biased because my name is a boy's name and my dad had a really gi... more » Sodypop: I mentioned earlier that the name Lola is officially out of my list of names for my hypothetical girl. It went from 752 to 246 in only 5/6 years. Plus... more » gherkinfiend: My given name is Sarah, but I changed it to a diminutive version of my middle name when I was 7. There were 7 Sarahs, a Sarah Jane and a Sara in my my... more » kelsium: Also, I went to high school in Hippie Central and knew an Ariel Stardust, who was male. Just sayin'. more » -
#whatsinaname
R.I.P. Margaret Gelling
Margaret Gelling, an expert on the arcana of English place-names and who described herself as a "neat, keen, merry woman...sensibly shod and clad," has died at 84. [Economist] -
#nomenclature
What's In A Name?
Emma has supplanted Emily as the #1 girl's baby name, while Jacob continues its ten-year winning streak, the Social Secruity Administration has announced. Meanwhile, Barack moved up 10,126 spots to # 2,409. [AP] -
#whatsinaname
Baby Hitler Taken From Parents
Adolf Hitler Campbell, the 3-year-old boy whose name was deemed too offensive for a supermarket birthday cake, has, along with his two sisters, been taken into state custody. Wethinks we hear the pitter-patter of ACLU... More » -
#fatalattraction
Field Guide To Guys: L'Homme Fatal
The NY Observer has put a name to yet another regrettable male archetype: L'Homme Fatal. This unassuming guy will lure you in with his self-deprecating charm and flattering attention — all to fuel his romance addiction.
