Should you give your baby a unique name?

[rowrrbazzle]

My post from a related thread of the days of yore.

@rowrrbazzle

A writer’s first name is “Icess”. Here’s how she “explained” it to someone.

“I-c-e-s-s. You know like the goddess, but spelled like ice”, I explained.

“What?” she asked again.

Maybe she needed another reference. Here’s a popular one: “The cartoon? Oh, Mighty Isis?”

Silence and a farrowed eyebrow.

Actually, “Icess” looks like “female ice” to me.

And what the heck is a “farrowed eyebrown”? Maybe she meant “furrowed brow”. Some writer.

It’s one thing to have a “creative” name. It’s quite another to blame other people’s difficulty with it on THEM.