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Help[Opinions] Re: Jynx?
in reply to a message by lakin5
As an actual given name for a person, it's ridiculous. A jinx is a curse or something that causes bad luck. Spelling it with a y doesn't make it any better.
However, as a pet name it's great. There's a series of children's books about talking animals on a farm, by Walter Brooks, from the early-mid-20th century. One of the animals is a cat named Jinx.
As a nn for a person it could be cute, but you definitely have to have a better reason for the nn than that somebody just randomly thinks it's cute.
An example is a friend's grandmother who was called Jink or Jinx by her husband (might be Jinks, actually) and other friends and family. Her name was Jennie, but her Polish mother often called her Jinka, which her husband kind of picked up when they first got together.
There was also a radio and TV personality in the forties and fifties called Jinx Falkenberg. Her real name was Eugenia. Along with her husband Tex, they had a very popular talk show.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
However, as a pet name it's great. There's a series of children's books about talking animals on a farm, by Walter Brooks, from the early-mid-20th century. One of the animals is a cat named Jinx.
As a nn for a person it could be cute, but you definitely have to have a better reason for the nn than that somebody just randomly thinks it's cute.
An example is a friend's grandmother who was called Jink or Jinx by her husband (might be Jinks, actually) and other friends and family. Her name was Jennie, but her Polish mother often called her Jinka, which her husband kind of picked up when they first got together.
There was also a radio and TV personality in the forties and fifties called Jinx Falkenberg. Her real name was Eugenia. Along with her husband Tex, they had a very popular talk show.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
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