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To: MSB who wrote (13985)	12/3/1997 2:58:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Very interesting thoughts about names, Mike. The choosing of names. Somehow this is subjectively tense topic for me, and I can't put my finger on why. Spouse and I were blessed with user-friendly names, the kind that sound right in a romance novel. My peremptory preconditions for names are: The name has to sound equally good in German as English (this wipes out a lot of Irish or Welsh etc. names we hear every day. "Craig" or "Joan" lose out. The names should be ordinary/traditional enough to not stand out when the young'uns hit "teasing age". I personally am not real happy with a lot of modern naming trends, like the two sisters I encountered named Hunter and Mason. Were they hiding a brother called Seamstress? Or coming up with cutesy misspellings of previously standardized names. I mean, yeah, it's the parents' right and all, but I find it to be just not really pretty. Half&half plus "ia" would lead to a most unfortunate name for Juniorette. Bible names: a lot of timeless classics there: comfy well-seasoned names that work on anybody. Dave. Matt. Becky. I like'm. A boy (should he come along) will be Thomas. Of course, there's always Jed and Enos and Beulah in that basket as well. Tends to brand a youngster geographywise. My father-in-law has Lee for a name. I tease Spouse (who has Southern roots, among others) about the potential for a universal middle name here. "Tommy Lee, Helen Lee, Sara Lee, git yer skinny butts in here raht NOW!" Just some random ramblings on the choosing of names - an intensely personal process which needs to balance the distillation of the parents' sense of style with the as-yet unconsulted person who actually gets to wear it everywhere. Absent the choice of a camouflaging nickname (Helen could be "Wheels") or a court order.