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From Reuters:
An Italian court has ruled that a couple could not name their son "Friday" and ordered that he instead be called Gregory after the saint whose feast day he was born on..."We named him Friday because we like the sound of the name. Even if it would have been a girl, we would have named her Friday," the boy's mother, Mara Germano, told Reuters.
When the boy was about five months old, a city hall clerk brought the odd name to the attention of a tribunal, which informed the couple of an administrative norm which bars parents from giving "ridiculous or shameful" first names to children.
Really. Talk about ridiculous. I like the name, too. What do you think? (Thanks to shpilkes for pointing this one out and supplying the headline.)
Then, of course, in keeping with the season, there's Mary Christmas.
martha said:
From Reuters:
An Italian court has ruled that a couple could not name their son “Friday”...
Really. Talk about ridiculous. I like the name, too. What do you think?
I like the name, too, largely because it is the name of one of my favorite Robert Heinlein characters.
Dan
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
A good friend of mine, not given to telling tales... says she went to school with a girl name Vagina (no, not Virginia... I clarified that)... and it was pronounced just the same as the part of the female anatomy.
Another acquaintance of mine knew a child that came into the library and the name on his library card was spelled Shithead... but the family pronounced the name "shi-tay." Honest to God.
So, you know, Friday just doesn't seem that bad, really!
Pam
Dieverdog, I'd say those stories have urban legend written all over them.
Although I am happy to learn from the wonderful urban legends site, snopes.com, that the family responsible for the eponymous Lear jet had a daughter named Shanda. So I thank you for sending me there!
Urban legends, perhaps.
On the other hand, as a physician who has takes care of newborns, I have had to supress a cringe on more than one occasion at names that have been given to children in my care. Confidentiality precludes specific examples, but I have often been tempted to grab the parents, shake them and shout "What were you THINKING!!!".
For your reading horror: The Bad Baby Names Blog. This post is particularly good, in an awful way.
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