Nik Nax
Splendidly barbed (and informative) broadside from my favourite combative correspondent e-meritus, "Demonessa".She rightly takes me to task for my feigned - and not a little offensive - bafflement over some of those dentistry-defying nomenclatures out there, for me defined by 'Doleezza Rice's firebrand handle.
Nice little Slate piece on the whole subject, silencing further oafish musings by the likes of me.
20 whitest and blackest names for girls20 for the boysAnd gosh, if only I'd thought this one up for 1,000-word article for across the water - 20 "crossover" names that might be shared. You can't invent this stuff.Chix nicks
Rather a pedestrian list, I thought, but I love 'Deja' and 'Shanice'.
Of course, I'd freedom fry the former with a brace of accents - Déjà - and Italianise the latter into a pouting "Sha-neechay".But what a great idea to plunder Larousse. Think of the possibilities: BienQue, Dautant, Apray, Alors, Zut ... et tout ça.Blokes
Much more promising
- Trevon
- Reginald (and if *that* passes muster with the homies, they should check out that ghetto li'l handbook, Burke's Peerage)
- The gladiatorial resonance of 'Demetrius' - wonderful! Kennedy's Latin Primer is a fund of just such cool names.
- But where's my fave curio hybrid - 'Antwone'?
- How about the menace and intrigue of 'De'Ath'?
Excellent link. Great fun.
