JonBenet’s name squicked me out when I heard it, too. Most dads probably name their SONS after themselves, not their daughters… Just icky and a bit wierd, considering the whole “sex up your six year old” thing…
Granted, I believe she was named after BOTH parents- isn’t her full name JonBenet Patricia Ramsey?
It sounds more like a parental ego thing, more than anything else.
quite right, ejsgirl. she is named for both parents. and she does have an older brother that could have been a junior.
i figured on it being a southern 2 name thing. john and bennet really don’t leave a lot of feminine room, so jonbenet with a french twist would work. a boy could have been jon-ben, so you would know which was being referenced.
The boy could have been John Bennett, Jr. Would have made perfect sense, and made the parents seem less… odd.
Go to the SIL website and download both keyman and the IPA fonts. That way you can type the IPA symbols. Of course, the machine your reader’s using must have the IPA font to see them correctly.
You may be interested to know that Jon-Benet Julie Edwards was born in Liverpool, England, in April 2002.
Two others, born in Texas: Destinie Jon’benet Easley (1997) and Jonbenet Betsai Moreno (1997).
Of course, all three could have been influenced by the name of JonBenét Ramsey, who died in 1996.
(a) Done-to-death first name
(b) Pointless cutsie alternate spelling
© Middle name for a murdered child (assumably no relation)
(d) Complete with pointless accent/apostrophe.
IMO, egregious offenses in child-naming such as this should be punished by jail time.
The Ramseys were members of St. John’s Episcopal Church of Boulder, Colorado.
Agreed.
A former teacher of mine made up and took the last name Haskå for herself as an adult. Why? Well, her mother was from the province of Halland and her father from the province of Skåne. As a classmate of mine put it: “So that’s what’s special about you, is it?”.
I have to say some of the comments in this thread are eerily glib considering we’re talking about a 6 year old girl who was raped and murdered.
I imagine its simply reflective of societies response to 10 years of tabloid coverage and rampant speculation. I cant even imagine something that horrible happening to my own daughter, who also has an unusual name.
WTF … are these parents trying to choose the most ridiculous names for their kids - Destinie…Betsai?? They probably heard the name Jonbenet in the media and thought … hmmm there’s a stupid name, let’s use that as well.
When we were kids, friends and I would crack up laughing at the names in the credits of American TV shows. Verb-names … Skip, Chuck, Flip, Buzz, Chip, etc were always good for a laugh - but that’s nothing compared to now.
Betsai (also spelled Besai) is a name from the Bible. See Nehemiah 10:18.
When I was in school, there was a brother and sister named Jeryl and Sherry. They were named after their parents, Jerry and Cheryl. They would have been born circa 1970.
Unfortunately, I was so stunned when I heard I temporarily lost my super-powers.
Of course, Australians don’t engage odd or silly nicknames, do they?
So Roget rhymes with “logic”?
Which are the dipthongs in “Roget” the rhyme with “logic”?
I didn’t say anywhere that Roget should rhyme with “logic”, and rereading my posts I have absolutely no clue where you got that I did.
When you said that you’d only ever heard it pronounced [ro:∙ 3ai] (copying & pasting your own text), I interpreted the [ai] to be a diphthong, on par with the “ay” ending many anglophones use when they encounter a word with an /e/ (or an /ε/, for that matter). I interpreted your post to mean that you thought my post on /ε/, /e/, and their common spellings was incorrect. I responded by saying that the anglophone pronunciation of Roget was irrelevent, since we were talking about the francophone pronunciation of Forget.
So now it’s your turn to explain yourself, because I have no idea where you’re coming from. Are you reading secet parts of posts that I don’t have access to? Why did you bring up Roget in the first place, and where did you get that I thought it rhymed with “logic”?
A thread on nicknames would be interesting. I wonder what other cultures and languages use for nicknames?
I know now that Skip, Chuck etc are nicknames, but since they appeared in credits, I previously assumed they where real christian names.