Re: OT naming customs
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 9:02 |
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On Sunday, December 16, 2001, at 06:43 , Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Dan Jones wrote:
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>> Also, what's the story behind people's names on the list? Are you named
>> after family members, or otherwise??
>
> My first name, Tristan, is just a name my parents both liked. My mother's
> first choice for my name was `Felix', but my father hated that. (Some
> believe that the fact that there was a chance of me being named `Felix' is
> enough to account for my oddities ;)* ). She was, however, allowed to name
>
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<laugh> I have a classmate who is female and named Tristen. Apparently
her mom was reading about Tristen & Isolde (or Yseult, or whichever
name-variant) and got mixed up as to which was the guy and which the girl.
..<G> She seems perfectly normal to me, though...
Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
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