The meaning of a name
A brittish study, done by OnePoll, showed that one in five parents regret the name they chose for their children. Many regret that so many other children have the same name and looking back would have chosen something more unsusual. A fifth of parents regret choosing a name that is hard to spell. Many of the parents that had chosen unusual or unique name felt the novelty had worn off over time.
I might be old fashioned, and I even though I admire parents that give their children exotic names and take their time in choosing a child’s name, I do roll my eyes at times with the choices some parents make. There’s no accounting for taste.
If you lean towards the fanciful and inventive names take note of the British company, Today Translations. They say they can get you translations for the name you’ve chosen in hundreds of different languages, it’s just a matter of coughing up about £ 1000. Would probably have been a good idea for Tom Cruise and wife Katy Holmes. Supposedly their daughter’s name Suri, a name I thought was kind of cute, means pocket thief in Japanese, horse mackerel in Italian and “turned sour” in French.
I love the Irish names, they have a sense of history. Irish names are one thing that makes me highly suspicious of Gaelic grammar, since everyone seems to spell names by winging it. An Irish name is taken out from the darker parts of the family chest, dusted and a few extra letters added here and there, sounding the same as the next door neighbour’s child’s name…but ooooh sooo different. People always refer to “Irish linguistic experts” when justifying their choice of spelling. “I called my primary school teacher…I talked to such a friend who is a native Irish speaker…I checked it in…etc”, somehow the name still end up sounding the same, despite the variety in the spelling.
Apart from the trend of again using very old Irish names, something that seems to be rampant in Ireland, the names here are fairly traditional. You’d be hard pressed to find fanciful names in your average school, but why bother when we have Irish spelling and our traditional names become so exclusively ours that no-one else would dare to use them…who outside Ireland could ever decipher them, really?
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I might be old fashioned, and I even though I admire parents that give their children exotic names and take their time in choosing a child’s name, I do roll my eyes at times with the choices some parents make. There’s no accounting for taste.
If you lean towards the fanciful and inventive names take note of the British company, Today Translations. They say they can get you translations for the name you’ve chosen in hundreds of different languages, it’s just a matter of coughing up about £ 1000. Would probably have been a good idea for Tom Cruise and wife Katy Holmes. Supposedly their daughter’s name Suri, a name I thought was kind of cute, means pocket thief in Japanese, horse mackerel in Italian and “turned sour” in French.
I love the Irish names, they have a sense of history. Irish names are one thing that makes me highly suspicious of Gaelic grammar, since everyone seems to spell names by winging it. An Irish name is taken out from the darker parts of the family chest, dusted and a few extra letters added here and there, sounding the same as the next door neighbour’s child’s name…but ooooh sooo different. People always refer to “Irish linguistic experts” when justifying their choice of spelling. “I called my primary school teacher…I talked to such a friend who is a native Irish speaker…I checked it in…etc”, somehow the name still end up sounding the same, despite the variety in the spelling.
Apart from the trend of again using very old Irish names, something that seems to be rampant in Ireland, the names here are fairly traditional. You’d be hard pressed to find fanciful names in your average school, but why bother when we have Irish spelling and our traditional names become so exclusively ours that no-one else would dare to use them…who outside Ireland could ever decipher them, really?
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