Baby Names...or Not

[gailr]

Leslie Charteris wrote the original Saint books that greatly amused me as a teen. His lead character regular addressed unintroduced thugs as Algernon.

I'm guessing no flowers for them?



Hmmmm ... I'm wondering ... [checks the googles] ... gak!
May William Shakespeare have mercy on our souls! There are, in fact, people naming their babies Renesmee.

*is experiencing near-clinical depression*

[Perry Lassiter]

I know a gal named Irene, who answers to Reenie, from childhood nickname. Isme is the name of the prophet Isaiah's horse. In chapter 6 he is reported as calling out, "Whoa, Isme!"
Now put that together and...

Oh, btw, did you ever check out some of the names the aforementioned Bard used! Polonius or his wife named their kids Ophelia and Laertes. The queen is Getrude, and then of course, the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern twins.

[Philip Hudson]

Were Rosencrantz and Guildenstern twins? I have brothers who are twins. As small children their sibs called them Twin and Othertwin; Twin being the first one addressed and Othertwin being the second one addressed. Hence we were constantly changing their names. They got even. Remember that younger siblings sometimes grow up.

[Perry Lassiter]

Philip you just created a monster. As it happens I have newly born twin great-grandchildren. I shall certainly repeat the twin/othertwin routine!

And btw, R&G were Hamlet's classmates and probably unrelated except in the evil of toadyism.

[Slava]

Twin one and Othertwin. Hmm, has anyone else thought of the Cat in the Hat? Thing One and Thing Two? Or am I alone in this?

[Perry Lassiter]

Not anymore.

[saparris]

My maternal grandfather had a sister, Tallulah (Lulie, for short), who married and gave birth to eleven children. She and her husband, Abe, named them alphabetically, using first and middle names as follows:

Anna Belle, Corrie Dean, Edgar Fant, Gertrude Holmes, Ida Jones, Kelsey Law (who later changed her name but kept the operative letters intact), Melvin Nesbit, Oscar Perry, Query Ross, Shields Trenton, and Ulysses Vance.

Having no more children, they named a dog WX and a cat YZ.

The dubious can see proof at http://www.celebritycensus.com/alphabet_family.php.

The only discrepancy between my records and those on the internet is Corrie's middle name, although either name works with the sequence of letters.

I'll admit that I'm right proud to be kin.