Klarinet Archive - Posting 000139.txt from 2007/04

From: "Jenny Connors" <jenny@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Altissimo Break
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:55:01 -0400


>>Re your interesting spelling: Classics/English majors who become parents
have this
>> great tendency to exhibit their base of arcane knowledge by hanging
strange
>> names/spellings on their offspring. Names that are too ethnic, names
that are
>> spelled strangely, names with too many letters--all ticket and tag
innocent little
>> kids--generally resulting in a negative aspect throughout their
elementary school
>> years. This is a big issue to me---as soon as I reached adult age,
almost everything
>> became Ted---credit cards, etc. Too many letters in "Theodore."

I don't think it's limited to Classics/English majors. My brother and his
wife, who between them have a pending law school degree, a JD, an MSW and a
PhD in chemistry, have just named their newborn beautiful little
girl...Luna.

~Jenny

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