Names
Working with the public exposes retail workers to all sorts of weirdness. Specifically, the weird things that people name their children. Here's a sample of some of the names that my co-workers and I have heard:
Cedar
Cypress
Dutch
Sequoia
Winter
I am, of course, guessing at the spellings. For more weird names, check out Baby's Name a Bad, Bad Thing.
posted by mamurd @ 9:44 PM
2 Comments:
We wondered if that one was a nickname, but he was only three, and they kept calling him "Dutchy", which made me think that Dutch was his real name.
Dutch as a nickname = fine.
Dutch as a birth name = weird.
I see a cultural trend on this topic. Many Asian families have given their children simple plain names like Eric, John, Amy, Mary. Many from the hippie generation gave their children nature names like Moon, Spring, Wren, Dahlia, Sundance (on American Idol), Heather. And many black families have used unusual spellings of vaguely African-sounding names like Lakisha (on American Idol), Tamarr, Latoya, Marques, etc.
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