named Jack I mean, not to be 3). We tell him he was named after all
his favorite nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters--Jack and Jill,
Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack Sprat, Little Jack Horner, Jack Be
Nimble, The House that Jack Built--Jack has a long and "storied"
history.
--- In [email protected], "hannahbearlee"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Eek. Some of the spellings are particularly . . . tasty.
> >
> > Four years ago, my own sister and her husband named their
daughter
> > Carey. (They had an excuse, though, as that's our mom's maiden
> > name.) Two years ago, they named their son Jake, although the
> rest
> > of us argued for Jacob.
> >
> > And one of my coworkers just announced the birth of his new
> > granddaughter, Makayla.
> >
> > FYI re: "Taj": it's actually a word defined in the
> dictionary. "A
> > tall conical cap worn by Muslims as a headdress of distinction."
> > I'd bet the parents are Muslims.
> >
> > Just realized: there's an Aspen, but no Sierra? (Or Ciera, as
> I've
> > also seen it spelled?)
> >
>
> Never been a big fan of people naming their children just the
> nickname...kind of takes the fun out of it. Though, I did know a
> Bobby once, who was just Bobby. His mother was Vietnamese and
> wanted to give him the most 'American' name she could. His father
> (who was a white US serviceman) was overseas and no one had ever
> explained to her about nicknames. So Bobby was just Bobby.
>
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