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[AugustWest]

Three daughters?  And I thought I lived in a henhouse!

I'm very happy for you AD.  Although I understand that they have recently discovered what causes pregnancy. 

I'm sure your housing situation will work out, probably for the better.  Lillies of the field, dude.  Lillies of the field.

[Doc]

Congrats AD, I'd chime in with my usual poo-pooing of childbirth as 'the thing so special that everyone can do it' but you are good people and I'm sure you'll do right by your little ones so they grow up with good character and post on a cartoon cat related message board.

[wombat]

AlohaDawg is going to get the validation of imaginary people on the internet whether he likes it or not.  Cans for everyone!

[AlohaDawg]

Congrats AD, I'd chime in with my usual poo-pooing of childbirth as 'the thing so special that everyone can do it' but you are good people and I'm sure you'll do right by your little ones so they grow up with good character and post on a cartoon cat related message board.

Well, <I can't>.

OK, so thanks everyone for the wishes, and to all other expectants, of course, best wishes as well. Probably going with the Hawaiian middle name again, so that if it came to pass that we don't live here forever, some of the mana maybe follows the kid around.

Right now, it seems like Abigail, Elizabeth and Rachel are in front but it's months away yet.

J

[V-Adore]

All lovely names. I like Rachel and Elizabeth a bit more than Abigail, but all three are simple and elegant.

[robot_god]

My favorite name is Tiffany.  I don't understand what it is about it.  Tiffany.  It sounds so nice.

[jough]

Abby, Ratch, or Liz.  Hm.

Sometimes I think people forget that kids will pretty much never be called by their given name once they reach some social plateau (school, usually).

A friend of mine named her daughter "Esmerelda" and hates that people call her "Ezzy" now.  What the fuck else do you call someone with a four syllable name?  Elda?  Mer?

[Doc]

'Smerel'

AD: Now I feel totally a dick and you understand why I try to keep my mouth shut during other people's joyous events. As a gesture of goodwill I believe 'Evey' is a good name, different without sounding stupid or made up, and is short enough that there are relatively few cruel taunts or nicknames that could be devised from it.

[wombat]

Sometimes I think people forget that kids will pretty much never be called by their given name once they reach some social plateau (school, usually).

But this is why Elizabeth is such a good name.  She can be Liz, Liza, Beth, Betty, she can decide to be Eliza -  even, I work with an Elizabeth who is called Eli.  Or she could be radical and insist that everyone dignify her with all four syllables.

Anyway though that doesn't happen to all names.  My name was never messed with or shortened - I didn't like it, but there was nothing you could really do to it.  I had to wait for the Internet to be called something different.

 

[Hobot]

But this is why Elizabeth is such a good name.  She can be Liz, Liza, Beth, Betty, she can decide to be Eliza -  even, I work with an Elizabeth who is called Eli.  Or she could be radical and insist that everyone dignify her with all four syllables.

Anyway though that doesn't happen to all names.  My name was never messed with or shortened - I didn't like it, but there was nothing you could really do to it.  I had to wait for the Internet to be called something different.

I think Elisabeth is more elegant and interesting.

I've never had problems with my name being shortened, either.  But I do get called Julie a lot.

[side_show]

Yay, a girl!

What about Jasmine?  I imagine there's lots of Jasmines in your local - it's sort of become an adopted Hawian name, but I love that name.

Zoe or Chloe and Raven are all favorites of mine.

I have known a couple of great Abbies in my day, and a couple of really practical Gails, but be prepaired: no teenager will ever want to be called Abigail, so it will be one or the other.   Also, I really like the name Elizabeth because it leaves a lot of options for when the girl grows up: Beth is great, really practical yet cool sounding, also Liz is good, and even though it's long, I still come across a few girls who sill call themselves by the full name.  I'm not a fan of Lizzy though, and "Lizzy" just needs to a avoided.     

[theinevitable]

so um
Elizabeth is a great name.
But I'm biased. I have a grandmother named Elizabeth, cousins named Lisa and Beth, and a girlfriend named Elizabeth (goes by liz)

so

babies are wonderful. I love them. Don' t listen to the haters.
Congratulations to you and your family.

[V-Adore]

Elizabeth has the advantage of relative flexibility of nickname, with a lot of range for personality; that has some value to it. (Inevitably the kid will decide she wants to be called something else, though. I think I badly scandalized my parents when I decided that I wanted to be adressed by my full first name, not the common cutesy shortening, at about age five.)

[theinevitable]

oh me too!
I used to get really really mad when people called me Dan or Danny.

and now my parents are upset, because they've heard my friends calling me Dan.



Until age 9 or 10, my mom thought her name was "Janni" (pronounced... yanni). She then saw her passport, which told her that This was actually a shortening of her middle name (Dejaniera).

Then, when she got her birth certificate, she found out that this wasn't even her middle name. her middle name was her first name. her real first name was the name of some relative.

her parents never told her this.

[lprkn]

I remember reading somewhere that Elisabeth is the one name in the English language with the most nicknames.