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[Puppy Lips]

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@RollTide2008 wrote:
My son Matthew hates to be called Matt.

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@RollTide2008 I have a nephew named Matthew.  When he was young, his mother, my sister in law, corrected everyone who called him Matt.  "HIs name is Matthew."  Well now she calls him Matt.

My daughter in law's mother is named Sandra.  But don't you dare call her Sandy.  She will correct you repeatedly.  

People are going to shorten names no matter what you do, so you better like both when naming your kid.  I still call our oldest son by his full name, because I like it, but everyone else has shortened it.

[Puppy Lips]

I have a grand niece named "River."  They wanted a "gender neutral" name.  Whatever, ugh.

[Othereeeen]

Just PLEASE whatever you do .....

DON'T  name your kid RIchard if your last name is HEAD.

[Laura14]

This is the generation of acronyms and emoticons.

They use u for you on texts and so on... it drives me crazy.

Soon everyone is going to be an initial or monogram. Easier to text. I already had a coworker call me L as his name for me. 

[SamBrown]

@ROMARY  Stupid name.

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@ROMARY wrote:

Several years or so ago, we ran into someone who named their baby son 'Bear'.  

I've wondered if Bear was or is an actual name?  And how he feels about his name right now.

Any thoughts?

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[shoesnbags]

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@Sooner wrote:

To be in just name the child after what you had for dinner (Apple? Pear? Pot Pie, Lasagna?) or the direction your garage faces (Southeast), your state animal (Bear?) or the closest geographic feature (Mountain, River, Canal, Prairie?). 

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@Sooner You nailed it!

[lgfan]

Don't forget the names for liquor. Margaux Hemingway was named after the wine her parents were drinking when she was conceived. I am surprised there aren't more people named Chardonay or Chablis.

[occasionalrain]

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@NYCLatinaMe wrote:

Maybe we shouldn't judge people by their name.

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I don't judge them, I judge their parents.

Names matter, food that has an unappealing name, often is passed over. They matter with new products, some have failed because of their name.

Companies employ people to name new products and paid focus groups are formed to evaluate the proposed name/names.

[Mombo1]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

I sometimes wonder about the names parents give.  I still can't believe Gwyneth Paltrow named her daughter Apple.  Seriously ... a fruit?   

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@Tinkrbl44   I think the name Apple is a little odd....but to each his own..  I have 3 young granddaughters.  They always got a kick out of Flo on the Progressive insurance commercials.  For awhile they started calling the youngest girl Flo.   No reason why...They just thought it was funny.  Thankfully it finally wore off.  🤷🏻‍♀️

[occasionalrain]

Something that I find curious, is that those with one syllable names like Jane are called Janey, while those whose names have two or more syllables like Timothy are called Tim.