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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 513956" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>The best book we had for names... I wasn't allowed to keep. It belonged to a gal I worked with, and had been on various rounds in her family for a couple generations. I don't even know the name of it anymore... </p><p></p><p>But.. name advice?</p><p>Keep in mind...</p><p>- initials have meaning.... Please don't name your kid Isabelle Elizabeth Parsons... do YOU want to be an IEP?</p><p></p><p>- stick to gender-obvious names with gender-obvious nick names... any idea how hard it is to work on interstate/interprovincial/international billeting arrangements, and the names you have to work with are Kim and Dale and Pat so on? is that a male or a female? Because... some of the billets are shared accommodation, and... some jurisdictions they aren't allowed to "share" the student's gender (privacy issue?)</p><p></p><p>- Make at least ONE of the names, short... kids get really tired, really fast, of writing Kimberley Elizabeth Longestname. And they get tired of running out of paper to write their names on.</p><p></p><p>- Pick names that are generally spelled "one way"... and use THAT spelling. It gets really tiresome to have to spell your name to people, all day every day. (I live it. It stinks. And if I tried using my middle name instead of my first name? it would be just as bad). Nobody has to ask how to spell David or Ruth (or even Elizabeth or Trinity)</p><p></p><p>- do NOT pick a name that is in the current top 25. It's no fun to be one-of-5 in the class with the same first name.</p><p></p><p>And yes, you have lots of time to find the right name.</p><p>But they had better have more than one in mind... because that baby may not "look like" the name that is picked. </p><p></p><p>Enjoy. I expect I'll be in a nursing home before I ever get to be a grandma... and that's if I live that long.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 513956, member: 11791"] The best book we had for names... I wasn't allowed to keep. It belonged to a gal I worked with, and had been on various rounds in her family for a couple generations. I don't even know the name of it anymore... But.. name advice? Keep in mind... - initials have meaning.... Please don't name your kid Isabelle Elizabeth Parsons... do YOU want to be an IEP? - stick to gender-obvious names with gender-obvious nick names... any idea how hard it is to work on interstate/interprovincial/international billeting arrangements, and the names you have to work with are Kim and Dale and Pat so on? is that a male or a female? Because... some of the billets are shared accommodation, and... some jurisdictions they aren't allowed to "share" the student's gender (privacy issue?) - Make at least ONE of the names, short... kids get really tired, really fast, of writing Kimberley Elizabeth Longestname. And they get tired of running out of paper to write their names on. - Pick names that are generally spelled "one way"... and use THAT spelling. It gets really tiresome to have to spell your name to people, all day every day. (I live it. It stinks. And if I tried using my middle name instead of my first name? it would be just as bad). Nobody has to ask how to spell David or Ruth (or even Elizabeth or Trinity) - do NOT pick a name that is in the current top 25. It's no fun to be one-of-5 in the class with the same first name. And yes, you have lots of time to find the right name. But they had better have more than one in mind... because that baby may not "look like" the name that is picked. Enjoy. I expect I'll be in a nursing home before I ever get to be a grandma... and that's if I live that long. [/QUOTE]
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