Message: "ita Bailey" - Behind the Name

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ita Bailey

by mirfak

10/18/2017, 10:52 AM

QuoteI don't have the words to describe how much I hate Bailey. It's bad for a boy and even worse for a girl. A friend of ours named her baby girl Bailey a couple of years ago. I am just dumbfounded. I cannot wrap my mind around why anyone thinks Bailey is in any way a good or nice or pretty or spiffy or beautiful or classy or think-of-any-positive -quality-for-a-girls'-name-that-you-can name for a girl.

Amen.

I don't mind Makenna, Jordyn, Chloe, or Mason. I can sort of understand why they would have appeal to some people. But, Bailey? For a girl? It would require a total disconnection from every association I can think of, as well as every unconscious association, with the name Bailey. It's like they're extraterrestrials. It reminds me of Ford Prefect in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ...

This friend of his had first arrived on the planet Earth some fifteen Earth years previously, and he had worked hard to blend himself into Earth society – with, it must be said, some success. ... He had made one careless blunder, though, because he had skimped a bit on his preparatory research. The information he had gathered had led him to choose the name ‘Ford Prefect’ as being nicely inconspicuous

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