American Profile
November 25th, 2009 by Editor BMy friend Leonardo e-mailed me about this.
Our paper carries a Parade magazine like thing during the week called American Perspectives or something like that. At any rate, today’s cover story is on unusual baby names. The illustration is a dozen ‘My name is’ name tags like you’d wear at a conference. And the name, front and center, is ‘Persephone.’
Five minutes after he dropped a copy in the mail for me, my mother e-mailed a scan of the cover.
I thought it was kind of cool, but Xy’s pissed off about it. She thinks a bunch of people will see it and name their daughters Persephone, thus making the name a little less unusual, a little more common.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
at least yall set the bar.
full disclosure.
back in the 80’s i had a gal pal who went by the name purse’s or so it sounded to the ear.
once i got to know her a little better i asked her about her name.
you can probably figure out the rest of the story.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:37 am
It will probably never be common but what’s so wrong if it is a little more so?
November 27th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
In a name duel with her first and last names combined, she’ll mop the floor with her opponent.