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HelpArnna instead of Anna?
If "Arnna" wasn't associated with the Beaumont Children (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_the_Beaumont_children), would it be usable as an alternative to Anna?
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This sounds dumb, but don't know what the Beaumont Children are or who they are, so no associations with this name. I like Arnna. It has a cool Icelandic feel to it. It is usable. Anna is overused.
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Anna looks classier and easier to pronounce.
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I read the article ...
And all I can say is that, even for those more naive times, those parents were idiots.
I mean, they let their three kids go to the beach by themselves, trusting a damn nine-year-old to keep a seven and four year old safe? And they don't even set a firm time for when they're too come home, just either the noon bus or the two PM bus.
And the mail carrier sees them strolling along laughing when they're an hour late home, and people wonder why they were not in a hurry to get home? Hello, it's because they're all under ten years old!
And all I can say is that, even for those more naive times, those parents were idiots.
I mean, they let their three kids go to the beach by themselves, trusting a damn nine-year-old to keep a seven and four year old safe? And they don't even set a firm time for when they're too come home, just either the noon bus or the two PM bus.
And the mail carrier sees them strolling along laughing when they're an hour late home, and people wonder why they were not in a hurry to get home? Hello, it's because they're all under ten years old!
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This is a names board and not a board on missing kids.... but I'll say this, different time and different way of life. I grew up in a town in Madrid, Spain, and at the age of 4 I walked to school quite a way by myself and that was normal, and not uncommon, for kids to do. No one batted and eye. You don't know how life was like then there.
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maybe I dont ...
But I do know that the beach is not a safe place for kids to play unsupervised, and that lifeguards are not babysitters, and that even well-behaved nine-year-olds are not responsible enough to mother two younger kids when they too are expecting to be able to play and talk with friends, and that kids that age bicker and fight with each other and that a nine-year-old doesn't have the clout to make them do anything or stop doing anything if their parents aren't around, and is just as likely to sink to their level and get into the squabble.
But I do know that the beach is not a safe place for kids to play unsupervised, and that lifeguards are not babysitters, and that even well-behaved nine-year-olds are not responsible enough to mother two younger kids when they too are expecting to be able to play and talk with friends, and that kids that age bicker and fight with each other and that a nine-year-old doesn't have the clout to make them do anything or stop doing anything if their parents aren't around, and is just as likely to sink to their level and get into the squabble.
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You are right. I am sure they feel horrible and have regrets.
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Since we're already off topic: My sister and I have spoken about the fact that when I was five years old, in 1965, I started walking to school and back totally unsupervised. I just now looked up the distance between where we lived and the school, and it's only half a mile. However, it required walking to the end of our street, which was already well out of sight of our house, turning left onto another street, right onto another, and left onto yet another. There was a crossing guard to assist children across the one semi-busy intersection on the route.
And it wasn't just me. All of the kids walked to school unsupervised. There were no busses and no parents lined up in cars to drop off and pick up. The only time parents would drive their kids was when it was raining, and even then, some didn't drive, but instead put the kids in raincoats and gave them umbrellas and they walked as usual.
Nevertheless, my sister and I, by the time we became mothers in the 1970s and 1980s, would never have allowed this.
I don't know if the dangers have actually increased or if it's just our perceptions of possible dangers that increased, perhaps unrealistically. We just know that we could never allow this as our parents did.
And it wasn't just me. All of the kids walked to school unsupervised. There were no busses and no parents lined up in cars to drop off and pick up. The only time parents would drive their kids was when it was raining, and even then, some didn't drive, but instead put the kids in raincoats and gave them umbrellas and they walked as usual.
Nevertheless, my sister and I, by the time we became mothers in the 1970s and 1980s, would never have allowed this.
I don't know if the dangers have actually increased or if it's just our perceptions of possible dangers that increased, perhaps unrealistically. We just know that we could never allow this as our parents did.
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I grew up in the '90s, and I would ride my bike to the corner store or the playground by myself all the time by the time I was eight or so. Of course we lived in a very small town where everyone knew everyone so I think people were more trusting there.
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Despite what some people tend to think, kids still do walk to school and back. Enough so that all the schools my own daughter has gone to have specific times and doors that walkers are supposed to use to leave, so they aren't in the way of the buses or the cars picking kids up.
But my objection wasn't to the kids walking someplace alone. It was specifically the beach, which is not safe for little kids without supervision, even if you don't count the danger of abduction. And the fact that they were being allowed to be away from home without supervision for several hours, and didn't have a firm time when they were supposed to come home, is also worrisome.
But my objection wasn't to the kids walking someplace alone. It was specifically the beach, which is not safe for little kids without supervision, even if you don't count the danger of abduction. And the fact that they were being allowed to be away from home without supervision for several hours, and didn't have a firm time when they were supposed to come home, is also worrisome.
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I went to school in the 1990s and did this. I agree with what you said. I stayed home as a child too.
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No, it looks dumb and sounds ugly, which are far bigger obstacles than the one you mentioned, which most people will never think of.
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Agreed!
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I can't even begin to imagine allowing a nine, seven, and four-year-old to take a bus and go to the beach----the beach! an ocean! ----- unsupervised. Taking my kids to the beach supervised, which happened only rarely when we visited my father in Hilton Head, was nightmare enough. I was in constant fear of them drowning and wouldn't take my eyes off of them.
Anyway, I've never heard of the Beaumont children until right now. I don't think the case has any bearing on the name Arnna in the US, but of course I don't know about Australia. Arnna is certainly not unusable in the US. However, Arnna is not in this site's database, and I've never heard it before. Did the Beaumonts make it up? If it were an established name, I might say that it's plausible for someone to like Anna but think it's a little too plain and go for Arnna instead. But not when it's not an established name.
Anyway, I've never heard of the Beaumont children until right now. I don't think the case has any bearing on the name Arnna in the US, but of course I don't know about Australia. Arnna is certainly not unusable in the US. However, Arnna is not in this site's database, and I've never heard it before. Did the Beaumonts make it up? If it were an established name, I might say that it's plausible for someone to like Anna but think it's a little too plain and go for Arnna instead. But not when it's not an established name.
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Arnna looks like it would be pronounced different and it looks different then Anna or Ana or Anne. I would want to say Are-Nuh, which reminds me of someone with a accent pronounced Aaron. I don't see why Anna has anything wrong with it that you need to spell it this way as it is a name with a long established history as well as usage in multiple languages.
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Again with your obsession with dead girls.
Arnna is not associated with anything in the US. It's probably been used a time or two, or at least maybe Arna has, probably a long time ago.
I don't really see what it has to do with Anna, or why it would be considered an alternative to Anna. It's usable, but would likely be confused with Erna or Anna or other names just because of the odd unfamiliar way it looks.
Arnna is not associated with anything in the US. It's probably been used a time or two, or at least maybe Arna has, probably a long time ago.
I don't really see what it has to do with Anna, or why it would be considered an alternative to Anna. It's usable, but would likely be confused with Erna or Anna or other names just because of the odd unfamiliar way it looks.
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I kind of like Arna (written like this), as a feminine version of Arn. But I do not see it as an alternative to Anna. And the version Arnna makes no sense to me, because either you pronounce the R or the two Ns, both is nearly impossible.
The link to the missing children is tragic and makes the version Arnna again less attractive to use.
The link to the missing children is tragic and makes the version Arnna again less attractive to use.
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Arnna almost feels a very high British way of pronouncing Anna. That said, it's got a neat look to it.
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