Monday, July 04, 2005

Children's Names

Parents should stop naming their daughters "Emma" or "Emily". It's too difficult to remember which. I like the Latvian system of having separate letter endings for male and female names, although it could be simplified further. All girls' names should end in "a" (Emma, Francesca, Christina, Maria, Sara - no 'h'). Boys' names should end in "o" (Pato, Johno, Franko).

In fact, since Emily and Emma were the #1 and #2 most popular baby names for girls in 2004 in the USA, there should be a moratorium on both. In England and Wales, Emily was #1 and Emma #18, so maybe it's not so much of a problem there.

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