Curmudgeonly observations
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
What's In A Name?
I came across this political cartoon recently and thought it was pretty funny. Mike Lester, the cartoonist, has summarized some thoughts we've had in recent years about increasingly strange given names we've come across....
2 comments:
Robin
said...
Just imagine how your great-great grandfather Ezekiel felt about it!
I don't know; I don't think the names used in my GGF's generation weren't that radically different from my GGGF's. They were still based on traditional names. These days, a lot of given names seem to be made up or just gross misspellings ("Tayelor"). :-)
2 comments:
Just imagine how your great-great grandfather Ezekiel felt about it!
I don't know; I don't think the names used in my GGF's generation weren't that radically different from my GGGF's. They were still based on traditional names. These days, a lot of given names seem to be made up or just gross misspellings ("Tayelor"). :-)
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