what happened to bob?
June 7, 2008There’s a Brian we grew up with, and even after knowing him for 15 years, every time I write his name I have to ask Jill if he spells with with an I or with a Y. Earlier this week, some of us went through old photo albums and scanned a bunch of pictures from high school to put on myspace and then when tagging them I realized that the hardest thing to remember was which Rebecca spelled it with a -kah and which used -cca. I know that we used to have to worry about Catherine with a K sometimes, but other than that, people in our generation spelled names relatively normally.
I look at names all day at work. Now there’s Brittney, Britney, Brittanee, and Britaney. There’s Madison, Maddyson, and Madesun. There’s Mikayla, Makailah, and Mikayla. Jackson, Jaxson, and Jaxon. What is going on? Mass hysteria.
In other news, I’ve been putting two packets of Equal in my coffee at work all week, trying to cut back on sugar. Since we don’t keep that crap at home, I’m drinking coffee with bona fide sugar in it, and it’s SO much better.
Also, my neighbors have company this week and have been hanging out on their porch, so they’ve got all these extra canvas chairs out there, and sitting out on my porch in the morning quiet and seeing all those chairs makes me feel kind of like I’m camping. It’s a nice feeling.
There’s really no point to any of this. I just keep typing. I guess I’ll go make a shopping list.
I started using Jaxn as an alternate spelling while I was in high school. I gave all 4 of my sons Jaxn as a middle name. For me it has something to do with identifying an otherwise common lineage.
Still, it is a little weird.
I’m convinced the weird spelling of names has more to do with spellcheck than anything. You’re in the hospital, all tired and happy because your pretty newborn has arrived all healthy and such. Then they stick this clipboard in front of you and ask you to fill it out. Of courase, you have to hand write it, you know with a pen, so there is no spellchecker. And it needs to be done RIGHT NOW.
And you’re screwed.
And poor Maddyson is hosed for life.
I don’t care what anyone says, Equal doesn’t taste as good as Sweet & Low, and sugar beats ‘em all.
Trust me I feel your pain on the name thing.
Covering all those high school basketball players and softball players, it gets crazy trying to remember which one is Meagan and which is Meghan. And that’s just two examples of ways to spell it. There are plenty more. Katelyn and Ashlee are a few more examples of names that have gone bonkers around here.
The guys are almost as bad. Try Dwaine, Dwayne, Zach and Zack, Jonathan, Johnathon, Bret and Brett, etc, etc.
The list just goes on and on and on.
Maddyson & Madesun? Ummm…
Maybe it’s that nutty spelling phenomenon that has people pronouncing names all crazy too. Take my sister’s name, it’s Zoe. People always want to pronounce it Zoey. It’s spelled like Toe with a Z, you say it the same…you don’t say TOEY. Same with Tara, it’s like Sara with a T, but I always get Tar-ah. it’s the strangest thing.
Lets blame it on the water…it’s turned into crazy juice and has ‘em all hooked on phonics.
Depends on which Brian you’re talking about.