My Favorite Baby Names Don't Work Together

jen106 12-01-2009 @ 9:10PM
Aside from the religious overtones, Vesper to me sounds like a redneck trying to say "Vespa", as in "Hey, ya'll, didja see that Vesper motorscooter?"

Which is too bad, because it could be a pretty name.

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FYI, the only "rednecks" that might say ves-PER trying to get out the word Vespa....probably are from New England. They are the ones that put ER on words that never had them. In Oklahoma there are some that screw up vowel sounds, and some might use double or even, on occasion, TRIPLE negatives, but NEVER would anyone I've ever met here add "ER" on the end of a word that ends in "A". For that you'd have to go to the ultimate "redneck", Teddy Kennedy. He probably had a 'vesper' when he was a kid for tooling around in the compound...

Karen's right Jen. And how the hell can you degrade ANYONE and then in the same breath say that "Vesper" is a pretty name. And for your info, "rednecks" aren't TRYING to pronounce anything. WE say the words exactly the way we want to. I'm from the deep south, lady and I'm as redneck as they get. I also got a perfect score in the english comp. section of the S.A.T., which I took in the 7th grade, have a clinically tested I.Q. of 146 and will talk like a "redneck" 'til I die. What you got, darlin'?

Karen - I'm from New England, near Boston. You have it backwards, we usually chop off the R in words. Instead of Gloucester, we might say Glostah. My name is Jennifer, I'm always hearing Jennifah, or even Gin-if-ah. My son even has a t-shirt poking fun at it, it reads "Wicked Smaht". People often "Pahk the Cah in Havad Yad"

Well Karen, using the word 'probably" to prove a point isn't the way to go. Unless you know for a fact that New Englanders say that then you shouldn't comment.
Clint, where to start with you? First off, she was going by the stereotypical redneck language. It's well known that redneck's language isn't proper.Alot of the words are often misplaced with one word, misspelled, and there are many incomplete sentences. As for your 7th grade english section on the SAT..lol that was when you were in 7th grade and your not the first redneck to have some education. I'm not saying all of you rednecks are dumb. Just the majority. Also, another thing that bothered me, even though it was a small mistake....Jen did not degrade anyone and then say it was a pretty name in one breath because first of all :it was typed so she literally didn't say anything, and there was a period at the end of her "degrading" remark, so if anything it would be counted as a new sentence, meaning she would have to stop and take another breath to say, but your a redneck and you aced your 7th grade english section on your SAT and you have a high IQ so I'm pretty sure you knew that. LOL

There was a hospital where my mother-in-law once worked; the new mother was looking at a medical book and was trying to decide baby names between 'Syphallis' and 'Gonrea'.

My husband's name is Jack and his sister's is Jill. I laughed when I first heard it and asked if he got teased a lot. He said, "No." That ended that conversation. lol I asked my mother-in-law why she did that and she said his dad wanted a Jr. therefore the name Jack and she always loved Jill since she was a little girl so she named her first daughter that. Well to each his own!

That stuff about people using medical terms as baby names is an urban legend. I've heard it a thousand times from "people who know someone who works in a hospital". Nobody has named their baby placenta or meconium either.

My daughter went to school with a girl whose name was Holly. She got married to a classmate whose last name was Wood. She took a lot of ribbing when she got pregnant and the entire school was trying to help her name the baby. She vetoed names like Dolly, Woody and even Holly Two Wood. I wish I could remember what she named the baby!

My name is Holly and I dated a guy with the last name Day. That was short-lived.

Nancy, you are so right. I worked for a college once and there was the most adorable student there named Bambi. Yep, Bambi. She was in Hotel management and imagine trying to have people (especially men) take you seriously in meetings! Why didn't her parents name her Barbara or something and just call their sweet little baby Bambi. Then she'd have a choice! She could be the CEO of some big company and be Barbara, or maybe run a daycare and go by Bambi, or whatever. I really feel sorry for those kids that are stuck with the one (cutsie) name!

Offspring are not dolls placed before you to enact your long held fantasies, they are human beings in their own right. It is perfectly reasonable to consider the consequences of a name choice.