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Subject: [OM] Re: What's in a name - really OT
From: "Earl Dunbar" <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:02:07 -0400
Isn't it Moon UNIT Zappa, rather than "Station"?

Or are you the mother of invention re her name?

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On 8/15/2004 at 6:41 AM Winsor Crosby wrote:

>Cities, states, objects, holidays and or a name from the opposite sex. 
>Anything is fair game to curse your child with. It is not very common, 
>but enough so that people do not comment on it much. Western states are 
>more popular than eastern ones except for those that are already common 
>names like Virginia or Carolina. Reno and Phoenix are popping up for 
>boys and girls. I know of at least two women named Christmas. I think 
>Moon Station Zappa still raises an eyebrow but does not get the amused 
>sympathy of a Forrest Glenn Wood. Movie star names or their role names 
>are much more popular.
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>Winsor
>Long Beach, California
>USA
>On Aug 15, 2004, at 5:20 AM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
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>> Dunno if this is just an Oz phenomenon or not, but there seems to be a
>> fashion here for naming children (particularly girls) after USofA
>> states.  Is this widespread, does it happen in the USofA itself ?
>>
>> A bloke I worked with named his daughter "Indiana" (I thought that was 
>> a
>> boy's name anyhow !), another bloke I worked with named his daughter
>> "Montana" and I heard a woman talking in the tea room last week, she
>> said her sister was naming her daughter "Dakota" (South/North - I'm not
>> sure !).
>>
>> ...Wayne
>>
>> Wayne Harridge
>> Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia
>> http://lrh.structuregraphs.com
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