Alaska's First Family
Reader Liz brought a serious problem to our attention in the last post's comments. No matter what your politics are, I think we can all agree that Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and Trig Paxson Van could have used a re-think. Particularly the first two and the last one. Particularly because Trig doesn't appear to be any kind of "Nordic" name, as the family claims. There's "Trygg", a Norwegian name which means "safe" or "reliable" - but there's unfortunately no "brave victory." Maybe they should have just been straight with us and confessed it's short for "Trigger." NRA family, you know? Or maybe "Trigonometry?" Palin's probably good with numbers?
Willow? I'll survive. Piper? Not my fave, but hey. But Bristol is a girl. And Track is... a sport. And Trig just really, really, really needs to be good at math in high school. At least algebra. Seriously.
posted by TurabianNights @ 10:26 AM
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Good at math? That's doubtful; isn't he the Down Syndrome one?
More's the irony :/
There's also a Bristol track (NASCAR race track).
Also, in Cockney rhyming slang, Bristols = breasts, as in short for "Bristol cities"...
Bristol makes me think of Bristol board, which is like thin cardboard or thick paper.
Willow isn't so bad. Trig is terrible.
There was a letter about this in my local paper today: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/letters/story.html?id=0b7cc8f4-d117-4585-bb13-5a7c47ffbe18
At least Willow and Piper are names with a significant history of use as names for girls and no significant history of being used as boys' names (that I'm aware of). I can respect their choice of these two names as opposed to something with 4 syllables and an "a" on the end if they don't like fussy names.
The other three names on the other hand...
Bristol I could deal with on a boy, as a very masculine sounding place name. Since it rhymes with "pistol" and Sarah's about 5 seconds from running out and getting an "NRA" tramp stamp (if she doesn't have one already), I think that may have something to do with it.
Track could work as a nickname for Travis Casey or something. Track...maybe as in tracking game for hunting? I don't know.
Trig I could see as a nickname for Dimitri Gavin. My guess is it has more to do with "trigger", for the same reason as Bristol.
But as they are, NO WAY! Vile!
Poor Palin kids.
Off topic... but I must bring this to your attention.
Baby Girl... Kinnit Rain.
"I don't know... Can it?"
http://www.newbabynews.net/hospitals/mmc1/public/mmc1birthannouncementSingle.pl?babyID=h1-7297
Somehow her twin brother ended up with a normal name.
I think one of the worst baby names is Desdemona for a girl because it means "Of the Devil", or at least that's what a site called Baby Names and Meanings. Help for When You Are Pregnant for Sure says for its Greek origin. Then again, the whole Goth / Vampire thing seems popular these days.
Off topic, but I must share these names, given by Waldorf school teachers to their unsuspecting childeren: Alethea (al-et-tay-a,
girl) and Vali (boy) Montefiore, and Salvita Dockety (girl).
Thought this was funny: My friend was going to be named Holly, her last name is Tara. Catching on? Holy Terror. Yeah, what a nice mom. Luckily she was named Lauren.
My niece's name is Pyper. I am not sure how my sister picked the spelling though.
Interesting story!
OMG I love your blog! I hope you come back and post soon or I will sick my sister-in-law, Zelmardeeda, on you!
I can see how someone classy enough to ridicule the math skills of a baby with Downs would like a horrible name like Maya Atzlan, a Mexican name that means "snake-faced claw baby eating somebody's still-beating heart." You suck, bitch.
I can see you haven't updated in awhile but I would also like to add the poor kids with multiple names. I'm not sure if it gives them options or if they win the contest for the most letters.
Orion Samuel Kaden Patrick Padigimus
and his brother,
Elias Aethric Robert Raymond Padigimus.
I guess if you can't pick your favorite, use all the names you like.
There are lots of names that we can choose but most of the time we choose those familiar and common names. We usually hear names having similarity.
Gosh, I love coming back to vitriolic anonymous comments. I feel like they really showed me.
I'm Norwegian and I can assure you, the Nordic name Trygg doesn't exist either! The closest is Trygve, which means trygg (safe). Poor kids, those names are awful. Well, I kind of like Willow, but the rest are simply horrid.
They aren't that bad compared to some others I've heard. Denim Blue and Blazin Trail come to mind, and I've lost track of how many parents I've heard honestly mention Rowdy as a potential name.
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Regarding the name 'desdemona'...
If it's of Ancient Greek origin it would mean 'of the spirits' because 'demon' only gained its negative connotations since Christianity. However, the Ancient Greek spelling of 'demon' is 'daimon' not 'demona'.
Of course, I don't speak Greek so I may be entirely wrong in this.
I like Sarah Palin's politics, but her accent bothers me. I'm from the South and she sounds like a yankee. Now, those names have GOT to go. She and her husband should have just given their kids normal names like Greg, Marsha, Peter, Jan, Bobby and Cindy....yeah, that's the ticket. And while we're at it, Sarah looks more like her name should be Carol and her husband looks more like a Mike.
Noooooo!this post remember me when I was in the college and I had to study the trigonometric functions, it was so terrible because I always scored a 50 or less in the test!22dd
For our babies first birthday we had one of our cutest baby pictures turned from photo to
painting. Everyone at the party loved it.Photo to painting
This is very interesting, I like your point of view on this one.
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