What's in a name?
I wanted to write a little bit about our choice of name, because it's a decision we had to make at the last minute with no concrete basis. The two main names we considered were, along with two others that we didn't seriously consider at the end, "what if she's actually a boy" names. While both were strong contenders, the name we chose was the one
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Our version of things was something like this:
Tru: "Hey Stu, I've made up a massive list of boy and girl names to narrow down. How's your list going?"
Stu: "My.. list?"
Tru: "You haven't got a list, have you? Well, okay, make a list and we'll narrow it down."
Stu: "Okay, I've made my list. Let's look at each other's lists.. okay.. and.. no. That's a Mercian queen's name and our daughter, if so she be, will either get beaten up or beat everyone else up."
Tru: "Awww! Oh, fine, let's look at yours and.. er, well, actually Frederic's quite reasonable, that's your dad's first name and my dad's middle name.. er.."
It went on in that fashion until we chose a name that wasn't on either list: Evelyn. We just liked it. Oh, and her middle name, Tamar, is for Tru's best friend Tami.
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