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Help[Opinions] Names for triplet boys.
Herbert, Hubert, and Humbert. WDYT?
~*|Bethany|*~
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"To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man"
Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3
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~*|Bethany|*~
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"To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man"
Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3
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I think all the names are horrible and I hate them all together, they are too close, sorry!
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Fine for a medieval/Anglo-Saxon sibset, but not today
In medieval and Anglo-Saxon times, it was normal and accepted to name siblings (multiple or singleton) with the same element, in your case bert.
Today, however, such a thing is not liked. It's seen as confusing, and potentially damaging to the process of individualisation amongst siblings (especially multiples).
Personally, I agree with today's view. I am, however, fine with the practice if it's for a sibset in a historical story. (Though triplets are exceedingly rare naturally: only one in 8,000, on average.)
Miranda
"Come... you must eat my child." — From a badfic
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In medieval and Anglo-Saxon times, it was normal and accepted to name siblings (multiple or singleton) with the same element, in your case bert.
Today, however, such a thing is not liked. It's seen as confusing, and potentially damaging to the process of individualisation amongst siblings (especially multiples).
Personally, I agree with today's view. I am, however, fine with the practice if it's for a sibset in a historical story. (Though triplets are exceedingly rare naturally: only one in 8,000, on average.)
"Come... you must eat my child." — From a badfic
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.
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O.K., It's for a story, but not an historical one at all. Maybe I should have said that sooner...oh well. That's interesting about the Medeival, however. I never knew that.
~*|Bethany|*~
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"To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man"
Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3
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~*|Bethany|*~
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"To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man"
Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3
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Check out Edward I of England's 18 kids
I made a post about him in January: http://snipurl.com/fvg7.
This is a fairly good example of what I mean about the Anglo-Saxons liking to name children with the same element.
Miranda
"Come... you must eat my child." — From a badfic
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.
I made a post about him in January: http://snipurl.com/fvg7.
This is a fairly good example of what I mean about the Anglo-Saxons liking to name children with the same element.
"Come... you must eat my child." — From a badfic
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.
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I *heart* Royals with many children!
It gives a good taste as too what the overall naming style was to an era
It gives a good taste as too what the overall naming style was to an era
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No way! I don't like any, if i had to choose one it would be Herbert
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O.K., you guys have got me convinced. ;-D
How do any of you like Shelby, Braxton and Howard?
~*|Bethany|*~
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"To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man"
Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3
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How do any of you like Shelby, Braxton and Howard?
~*|Bethany|*~
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"To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man"
Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3
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Sorry I'm going to say this, but it's terrible. Way too similar for siblings and also really dislike the names.
“"I can resist everything except temptation."
-Oscar Wilde
Hannah
“"I can resist everything except temptation."
-Oscar Wilde
Hannah
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Sorry, but they are dreadful to me. Individually, they are chronically dated. Would you want to be an image-conscious teenage boy, introducing himself to his peers as Hubert, Herbert or Humbert? I think not. It'd be very inconsiderate to saddle a child with such a name. And for triplets, they're much too similar.
Hubert is the best of the three, but I do not like it at all. Humbert it the worst. Apart from anything else, where I live, something that "hums", smells.
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"There are few more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Yeah we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own my love
Were in a class of our own my love"
♥Elinor
Hubert is the best of the three, but I do not like it at all. Humbert it the worst. Apart from anything else, where I live, something that "hums", smells.
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"There are few more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Yeah we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own my love
Were in a class of our own my love"
♥Elinor
This message was edited 6/27/2005, 9:14 AM
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While they are dated...
That won't necessarily kill the image of the kid behind the name. I know a boy named Huber (even worse than Hubert, IMO) who's done just fine, name be damned. He's also an utter redneck, but that's really not the point, heh.
Array
"What are these parents thinking?...Let's name her Madison--she'll live in her own world: 16 square miles surrounded by reality." -- Susan Lampert Smith
That won't necessarily kill the image of the kid behind the name. I know a boy named Huber (even worse than Hubert, IMO) who's done just fine, name be damned. He's also an utter redneck, but that's really not the point, heh.
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Hmm, you're perhaps right :-) I just envision a new kid named Humbert coming into my (relatively nice, suburban) high school, and I just know his name would've had us in stitches. Once they knew him as a person, yes, people would've got over it. But better to give the kid an easy ride from the get-go by avoiding such names, imo.
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"There are few more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Yeah we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own my love
Were in a class of our own my love"
♥Elinor
_____________________________________________________________________
"There are few more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Yeah we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own my love
Were in a class of our own my love"
♥Elinor
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What about Ebert, Egbert, and Epbert?
~*|Bethany|*~
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"To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man"
Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3
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~*|Bethany|*~
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"To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man"
Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3
__________________________________
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Way too similar I think. How confusing to say their names....they'd all come running at the same time. Bert...bert...bert
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perosnally i think they all sound a like and shouldnt start with the smae letters to em it doesnt sound right, no offence
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