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[seanachie]

Seanachie

I agree wholeheartedly with what you said, and hope that my post did not come off as being anti-ethnic name in any way. The difference is that, as you said, you see it as not a nuisance or offense that there may be issues with others pronunciation of a given unusual name, but rather you see it as a positive thing and an opportunity to share your heritage with others and educate them, something I roundly applaud. I only wished to explain IMHO how a name can potentially cause problems, what those might be, how those may impact you and your child in both short and longterm, as I and others above see them every day. I have no desire to squelch ethnicity and heritage in any form or expression, rather I relish it personally. Why else would a guy who is probably at least 20 generations removed from his last truly scottish ancestor start wearing clan tartan kilts at nearly 50 years of age if there at least was not some pride in his heritage?

As an example of how much I truly enjoy many of the ethnic names I encounter in my patient population, I still vividly remember and regularly recount the very lyrical and beautiful names of a pair of premature twin girls of Nigerian parents (I became very close with the parents )I took care of more than 25 years ago Funmilola and Adideyo-Kalinde with a last name equally lyrical which actually rhymed with Funmilola's name. Beautiful names for beautiful children. My only regret is that I do not remember the meanings of the names that the parents explained to me, which had powerful and wonderful meaning in their native language.

jeff

JEFF:
I always enjoy your posts, and there was no misinterpretation , your insights are always interesting. I had an uncle name Aloysius and I know that name cause him a lot of grief, so I see your point. I also felt bad for a supplier I used to work with who was Vietnamese but had a name pronounced like an English expletive. Unfortunately she was embarassed and adopted an "american" name.

PS my youngest brother is a pediatrician sound like that is the kind of medicine you practice.

[ForresterModern]

JEFF:
I always enjoy your posts, and there was no misinterpretation , your insights are always interesting. I had an uncle name Aloysius and I know that name cause him a lot of grief, so I see your point. I also felt bad for a supplier I used to work with who was Vietnamese but had a name pronounced like an English expletive. Unfortunately she was embarassed and adopted an "american" name.

PS my youngest brother is a pediatrician sound like that is the kind of medicine you practice.

I used to be a pediatrician and now am a pediatric radiologist, but still sometimes see literally hundreds of kids names in a single day, and usually have to try to pronounce them as part of the dictation of report process, and frequently in front of parents during some procedures. An interesting challenge, but one that my romance languages/home room teacher in high school said my language skills were up to.

Speaking of unusual names, my family tells the story of one of my great uncles whose name was Eurastus, and who went by Euras for short. One day while he and his brother were working on the roof he fell off a 10 foot ladder, landing rather hard on the ground. My other great uncle looked over the edge of the roof to check on him and hollered down "ya' hurt, Euras?" to which he replied "No but I skinned my elbow." True story.

We now return to your regularly scheduled programming. Sorry for the threadjack.