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The one thing I know for sure is that if I have children, I will NOT saddle any child with the headache of having a name that's difficult to spell or pronounce. I've known:
Nneka
Liisa
MyJenay (my-zhen-AY)
Yamaich (pronounced ya-MEE-ka)
I can't count how many hours these women spend every week spelling their name OVER and OVER on the phone...sending misprinted credit cards back to the bank...repeating their names three or four times to new business contacts who still can't get it right...
I have a rule that if you put "Chief Justice" in front of the name and it sounds implausible, then don't name your child that. It's not a coincidence that our female justices are named Ruth and Sandra. There will be no "Chief Justice Stahr'lyte Khrysteen" in our lifetimes.
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