Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I met a guy (who'd be early 30s now) who was named SIR, at a scholarship weekend, before I started college. Like, we were looking at the list of participants and went "...he's not seriously a knight, is he?" and then realized no, his parents had named him Sir. I guess they figured that way it'd always sound like he was being respected...
Sigh. The Washington Post has an article speculating on whether or not Sasha and Malia will join the Black Student Union at Sidwell, and if they do, what it'll mean for their father's "post-racial" reputation. This is getting ridiculous. [link]
Where the Dornis comes from, though, no one really knows.
Dunno about Dornis as a first name, but it's not uncommon for children to be given a family surname for a first name.
Dornis as a surname seems to come from Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Slovenia.
I met a guy ... who was named SIR, his parents had named him Sir. ...I guess they figured that way it'd always sound like he was being respected...
There used to be a practice among poor rural whites in the South and West of naming kids Judge and Colonel and General for just that reason. Occasional rather than common practice, but something that happened often enough not to be remarked upon.
Yeah, I've got one example in my file from the 1850s of one son named General Rafe Lastname, his brother is named Colonel Hugh Lastname.
It makes me wonder, would they have continued the pattern if they had had more children?
Did Colonel live a life of despair, knowing that he could never earn a promotion? "Mom always liked you best!"
The ones I boggle at are when titles get used as first names.
The guy across the street is named Sirmichael.
Family names I wouldn't visit on a baby:
Benoni (Meaning "child of sorrow" and given to babies whose mother died in childbirth. His did.)
Hepzibeth
Ora Dora
One ancestor was a schoolteacher and named his children Horace, Aurelius, Albert, Serena, Regulus and Livona.
One grandmother was named Estella Marie, but called Dorothy.
Ooh, cool, Hec.
I have ancestors who were dirt poor farmers (pre-civil war) who named their children "One" through "Twelve" and then, because of superstition or whatever, switched to regular (Cassius, Walter) for the next two.
he gets called Moore because he has a brother that goes by Les.
BWAH!!
And Meara, that reminds me of Michael Jackson calling his son "Prince".
And guess what? I am leaving the office, hitting the grocery store and watching the season premiere of "Damages"! Yay!
I just spent a happy 15 minutes watching a former Buffista speak at TED. How fun was that?
Did we know about that? Maybe we did, but I never got the memo.