Re: Why Do You Love/Regret Your Name?
in reply to a message by Anneza
I am so jealous of your strong family ties! I'm a sentimental person and I love the idea of treasured family names; I was always mad that I was quite literally the ONLY person in my family that didn't get some kind of honouring name!
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For your delight, and everyone else's: my mother's cousin Fred (not Frederick) and his wife Mary (my mother's best friend) had the surname Thompson. Initial T, therefore, and they wanted to name their son Robin Arthur. Then they looked closely at the initials, and named him Arthur Robin instead, though he was always and only known as Robin. Rather Art than Rat!
I'm glad they looked before he was registered XD People forget about initials with unfortunate consequences.