THE NAME GAME 4

In the mad rush to Christmas and the end of 2007, let’s take a holiday from business, numbers, and accounting.

How do you account for the names parents give their children?

http://www.taxgirl.com/thank-god-its-friday/ got me to dig up an email I received a few months back on the funny / weird name games Filipinos play.

A RHOSE, BY ANY OTHER NAME (continued)
by Matthew Sutherland

“A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches” –(Proverbs 22:1)

Between you and me, I’m glad I’m not. And how could I forget to
mention the fabulous concept of the randomly inserted letter ‘h’.
Quite what this device is supposed to achieve, I have not yet
figured out, but I think it is designed to give a touch of class to
an otherwise only averagely weird name. It results in creations
like Jhun, Lhenn, Ghemma, and Jhimmy. Or how about Jhun-Jhun(Jhun2) ?

There is also a whole separate field of name games-those where the
parents have exhibited a creative sense of humor on purpose.
I once had my house in London painted by a Czechoslovakian decorator
by the name of Peter Peter.

I could never figure out if his parents had a fantastic sense of
humor or no imagination at all-it had to be one or the other.

More in the next post . . . . . . . .