[or-roots] How we name children

[Sue Steward]

In the July 2009 Reader's Digest there is an article "You Named Your Kid What?!"  Welcome to the latest extreme sport: baby naming.

Sue Steward

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  In this morning's Register-Guard, there is a story about naming a child that somewhat illustrates what this list has been going through for the past week or so.

  To summarize the first part, the couple lost a son, Ethan, in a freak accident a year ago and were having a hard time coping, thinking that their lives would always be in winter - no summer.  To make a long story short, another child was on the way to be born on Mother's Day but was a few days late. We pick up the story there (and I will not use their correct names, only the child's).
      "John and Jane's daughter was born about 3 a.m. Her middle name Elexis, was purposely spelled with an "E" -- not the more traditional "A" -- in honor of Ethan. And her first name was purposely chosen to offset what Jane calls the "dark, desolate place" they've been:
      Summer. As in Summer Elexis (last name omitted).

  You can read the story in Bob Welch's column at www.registerguard.com.

  Linda VanOrden
  Junction City, OR


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