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Excellent NY Times Blog Post re: Baby Names

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"Misspelling a child?s name won?t make Junior special, creative or unique. Y?s and I?s are not interchangeable, and apostrophes are not some sort of newfangled confetti to be sprinkled liberally throughout groups of letters."

This is fantastic!

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Re: Excellent NY Times Blog Post re: Baby Names

  • mcadams1mcadams1
    YES.
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  • LemonBlushLemonBlush member
    Love it!!

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  • MrsJones714MrsJones714

    LOVE this article! And I completely agree. I actually saw a little girl with "Whitkneee" on her backpack. Yes. 3 E's. And a K. Indifferent

    However, I must point out that with a last name like Schmidtberger it's probably best that his mother had no imagination...could you imagine Jimbeaux (pronounced Jimbo) Schmidtberger? Ouch.

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  • jennicg27jennicg27 member
    Someone posted that earlier, and it is hilarious!  I love it!
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  • minnasmommyminnasmommy member
    that is GREAT! lol  ....and so true!
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  • slukd79slukd79 member
    Amen.
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  • ames71ames71 member
    imageMrsJones714:

    LOVE this article! And I completely agree. I actually saw a little girl with "Whitkneee" on her backpack. Yes. 3 E's. And a K. Indifferent

    However, I must point out that with a last name like Schmidtberger it's probably best that his mother had no imagination...could you imagine Jimbeaux (pronounced Jimbo) Schmidtberger? Ouch.

    I usually don't say much about bizarre spellings, but Whitkneee is absolutely the worst I've seen. That's exceptionally horrid.  

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  • sunnyday016sunnyday016 member
    Great article! I can't believe some of the commenters are actually bashing the author...they're probably the bitterly regretful parents of the Kloeys and Madicyns of the world.
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  • bkjcweddingbkjcwedding
    A thousand times YES!!!!
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