Thursday, May 19, 2005
Some names not to give your children:
Gabriellite - The name I saw on the tag of one school kid on the MRT, the name that started this diatribe. Firstly, it sounds an awful lot like "granite". And what is it supposed to mean? "Gabriel", now with 30% less sugar?!
Romeo, Prince, Elvis etc - Poor kid.
Place names - Like Brooklyn. Why not Manhattan? Liverpool? Milan? Which makes me wonder - I bet Hilton has a chain in Paris, so basically lots of men could claim that they'd been in Paris Hilton. Repeatedly.
Calbert - Like what happens after Calvin grows up and becomes Dilbert's colleague. Or maybe it was some bastardisation of "Calbhach", which means 'bald' in Irish Gaelic?
Chew Shit Fun - The parents must have pissed off the nurse at the birth cert counter.
Kayu - I had a schoolmate with this name. The Bengs in my class took great delight asking him to referee soccer matches.
Kok Buang - So the guy is both kok and buang?
Names that substitue 'i' with 'y' - The worst being those with multiple 'i's, which then becomes "Nyccy" or "Jymmye". It's not the 13th Century, stop spelling like Chaucer.
Elliot - It's a lovely name, I have a cousin with that name. (It's actually the medieval variation of Elijah). Unfortunately, in Singapore, everybody's going to mispronounce it as "idiot".
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