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Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Baby Name Search News
* World
strange, wondrous, curious place
Contemporary baby names are dooming a generation of children to a
lifetime of misery. Try living with the name April if your last name is
Rain or try teaching a child's teachers how to spell or ...
* Where
is Ali Gilmore?
Baby names, scribbled in Ali's handwriting. Jaiza. Jalon Ali. Jamaica.
James Arthur. Co-workers said she wanted the baby to have the same
initials as her husband. On another desk is a small, brown baby doll
the size of a hand. The baby is wrapped
* Marin
Independent Journal
One of the most popular sections is "Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing" - a
forum to post and chat about the worst baby names they've stumbled
upon, such as Angel Princess, Mountearl, Beyond Belief and Fecia.
Goodman says a lot of people check out the bad
* Looking
for Ali and finding a story
In reading Price's story, I was struck most by the image of Ali's desk
at work: virtually untouched since she went missing, it still contains
scraps of paper with possible baby names for her first born, who was
due July 18. I was struck by the fact
* Past year proves
that 'growing up' isn't so bad
And now that many of our friends are having babies, we've added baby
names, baby sitters and general child-rearing topics to our list of
acceptable topics of conversation. It's not a bad thing. It's just
funny that only a few years ago I would have
* Humor
can help parents cope with child rearing
Wilder's first chapter is about how his wife and her sisters began
hoarding baby names when they were still prepubescent. He recalls the
day she suggested Hemingway as the name for their unborn daughter: "
'Where'd you get that name anyway?' I asked
* When
it comes to names, old is new again
He comes from a Mennonite family in Pennsylvania Dutch country, said
Cleveland Kent Evans, professor of psychology at Bellevue University in
Nebraska and author of "The Great Big Book of Baby Names." The name
also underscores the fact that male names