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HelpRe: Really? You went there?
in reply to a message by Elena
Well, obviously creativity is not high on this lady's list of attributes.
I knew a set of twin boys in school called Ken and Kent, and a boy-girl set (who were delinquents extraordinaire) named Charles and Charlene. But nothing like that for non-twins, and even on twins it isn't really all that common.
I'm not counting things like sisters named Karen and Kathy, or brothers named Ian and Shawn, because even though Karen is a form of Katherine, and Ian and Shawn are both forms of Jon, 1. they sound very little alike and 2. in the US, few people know and fewer care that the names are technically the same.
And for the record, Karen and Kathy has got to be a very common pairing for sisters of the fifties and sixties.
I knew a set of twin boys in school called Ken and Kent, and a boy-girl set (who were delinquents extraordinaire) named Charles and Charlene. But nothing like that for non-twins, and even on twins it isn't really all that common.
I'm not counting things like sisters named Karen and Kathy, or brothers named Ian and Shawn, because even though Karen is a form of Katherine, and Ian and Shawn are both forms of Jon, 1. they sound very little alike and 2. in the US, few people know and fewer care that the names are technically the same.
And for the record, Karen and Kathy has got to be a very common pairing for sisters of the fifties and sixties.
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Yeah, re: Karen and Kathy, my dh's SIL is Karen and her sister is Katherine (Kathy). I've also known a Jill and Julie in the same sibset. And I've even seen a few situations where one child's fn will take a different form in another child's mn or they'll have matching mns (Michelle and Michael -- after their father, Michael). None of these situations were obvious (to most of the population, anyway).
BTW, the woman in question has a very shiny, sparkly personality and maybe she thought the idea of matching names was just precious. Who knows?
BTW, the woman in question has a very shiny, sparkly personality and maybe she thought the idea of matching names was just precious. Who knows?
This message was edited 8/29/2014, 6:18 AM
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For some reason, I think it used to be common for people to slap Ann on as a middle name for each and every girl, although it's not like I have any statistics to back that up.
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Ian and Shawn drives me nuts. So does Karen and Katherine (or Kathleen or any name that would lead to the nickname Kathy or Kathy itself.) I stand strong in my opinion that this should not be done, and I don't give a hoot that the names don't sound much alike and that few people know or care. They should know and they should care.
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