Monday, January 16, 2012

Am I the only one who hates trendy, purposely misspelled names?

I prefer it when names are spelled correctly. I understand people wanting to be original and all, but all the cutesy different spellings come off very trailer park & not very sophisticated, or even worse, that the parent was too dumb to know the correct spelling of the name! There's a book, "Freakonomics" written by Steven Levitt an economist, there's a whole chapter on names & what they signify and weird spellings of names are typically given by uneducated or lower cl parents. It also went on to explain how popular names trickle down through the social economic status. For instance Madison, Ethan, Mackenzie, and started out as "high end" names a few years back when upper cl parents gave to their kids, now it's popular with the mes & in 5-7 years all the lower cl people will be naming their kids that with more muddled up spellings, of course. For instance, at one time Crystal was a very "high end" now it's a stripper name. The name Britney is headed that way already!

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