Continuing a helpful series for parents-to-be, the tip for today is:
Don't give your child a name that combines a popular beverage and vermin.
The name? Tealice
Pronounced exactly how you thought - tea lice.
Not sure what the inspiration as for that one. Perhaps they were sitting around the table, drinking a cuppa, and saw a louse crawl by and:
"I've got it! Name the child Tealice!"
Continuing a helpful series for parents-to-be, the tip for today is:
Don't give your child a cutesy name that even you cannot remember how to spell.
Yes, in this case, the parents actually messed up and filled out their own child's name wrong on a bunch of legal forms.
Dad insisted it was correct. Mom said it didn't look right, and they had to text their child to get the spelling confirmed.
The tip: If you can't remember if you threw in double LLs or Double NNs into your child's name unnecessarily to make it all cute and distinct and stuff, maybe you shouldn't add them.
Turns out it was double NNs and not the double LLs as it had been entered on the form.
Just don't.
Parents-to-be, please do not inflict untold suffering, teasing, and limitations by giving your children unfortunate names. Yes, this is a real name from areal person who called today.
Today's tip on names to avoid is: Do not name your child after a window treatment.
The name: Shade - counter-intuitively, the pronunciation is: Sha-Day.
Just don't.
With much fanfare the 3.3 mile, $137-million-dollar-to-build streetcar on Woodward in downtown Detroit has just received a new name.
It's neither a catchy nor inspiring name, but more of a "named after our sponsor" sorta thing, and many aren't particularly thrilled with it, particularly those of the bien-pensant progressive class of Detroit:
The Detroit Free Press: QLINE could have been named with nod toward better transit
Mind you, for truth in advertising, and to fully link it to Detroit, all they had to do was add one letter that would sum up Detroit nicely and just call it the: DQLINE.
