My wife, who teached preschool aged children in government preschools, finds seemingly endless variations on names. I wonder whether it has anything to do with a desire on the part of parents to give their children a distinctive identity. I also wonder whether it instead impales the young person on a pike of explaining their whole life that there name is pronounced and spelled this way rather than what many prople would assume might be that way... and whether the parent would do such a thing if they had such a name themselves.
Consider... Jared, Jarred, Jarod, Jarid, Jerrod, Jerad, Jerrad, etc.... In similar vein, writer Sandra Rossi offers these thoughts in an article that flopped onto my electronic desktop: "I have a friend who suffered the misfortune of being named after a well-known Australian boxer. His father gave him exactly the same first and last name as the boxer with the expectation that the son would, one day, be a great Aussie brawler. But the sad reality is that my friend is as timid as a mouse. In fact he is one of the most gentle men I have ever met. My friend is in a constant state of despair because he didn't live up to his father's expectations, and didn't live up to his famous name. Even worse, his name is an endless reminder that he is not the tough man he was supposed to be, and a lifelong source of disappointment to his father. This is a true story and before you feel sorry for my friend, remember that in the real world we have to accept that life isn't always as we would like it to be. The challenge is to live with such shortcomings and make the most of our environment." (It continues about the IT world...) http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=855007101&eid=-6787 Peter (pronounced Peaterr) -- Peter R. Ellis ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------
