(May 7, 2021 at 12:37 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(May 7, 2021 at 12:28 pm)Angrboda Wrote:
My son is Alex but not short for Alexander...had he been a daughter, he'd have been Alex too.
My oldest ribs me because her name was the number one name in the year she was born. I try to remind her that we didn't have the Internet to track naming trends. When I had her in 1977, I didn't know of another Jennifer...then suddenly they were everywhere.
Kind of like the first name on the boy list - ‘Liam’ used to be a nickname for ‘William’.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson