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LONDON (AFP) - Baby Autumn Brown has a name to live up - in fact she has over 25 of them.
The little girl's mother Maria, in keeping with her boxing-mad family's bizarre tradition, decided to give her 25 middle names - all culled from the greatest exponents inside the ring.
Her full name, which left register office staff in Perton, Wolverhampton reeling is: Autumn Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson Willard Dempsey Tunney Schmeling Sharkey Carnera Baer Braddock Louis Charles Walcott Marciano Patterson Johansson Liston Clay Frazier Foreman Brown.
Maria told the city's Express and Star: "The whole thing came about because both my mum and dad are obsessed with boxing and have a bit of a daft sense of humour.
"When I was young I couldn't ever remember my name. It took me to the age of 10 to memorise it all."
The 33-year-old mother added: "I'm hoping Autumn has a good sense of humour with her name. It's never done me any harm though."
I am sorry to say that i don't have a good sense of humur :p Ehm... If i m the baby girl, I think i will get frustrated with my name especially when filling in forms. It will definitely take me a long time particularly during the exam. Imagine you are so eagerly to answer the exam papers, yet you need to spend a long time just to write your name. May be their culture is different from mine. They don't need to write their full name during exam. For Chinese, a name is very important. The name is going to be with you for your whole life. That's why parents being very careful in giving a name to their children. Most of them will count the strokes of the Chinese character and then matches it with their date of birth, with the hope that the name will bring good luck to the them. There is nothing wrong to be creative...yet, do you like the name of "dai nai zhao" ?? It means wearing a bra!! My English name is 'ease'. I feel weird and uneasy when i read this word in any texts. A bit regret to tell everyone this name...hehe...anyway, I love this name n it is better than the name 'chang'- this was my name during my secondary years. It is my last name.The reason why i dislike people calling me 'chang' is because they only remember my last name, not my name. When they phoned to my house, they would say, i m looking for chang...HELLO, which chang r u looking? There are 4 chang in this house. They cant even spell out my name. What a grief for me....Sigh! Labels: Dino in the wonderland |
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Ease, ease, ease...a very nice name indeed. Ease my heart always...hahaha!!!
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I think it's because the name is important that we forget the simple fact that, what makes a name meaningful is not the WORD, but what we put into that word. From our personality to everything we do in life.
Remember the old days when Chinese family like to name their children with "animal" nouns, like Tan Ah Kow (Dog)... It sounds BAD or TERRIBLE for some, but that person may be proud of it as it resemble intelligence.
Which is why people often ask "What's in a name?" I've seen a lot of people struggling to come up with a nick name or even "English" names just because they feel shameful of their Chinese name. In the end, they end up confusing not only themselves but others too.
Ease, chang or yee shee, it's just SOUNDS. To make that sounds meaningful, it's all up to the person who holds that name.
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Yrene: I owez ease ur heart, so who ease my heart?? :-(
Kee Man: AGREE most of your opinions except the one on Tan Ah Kow resembles intelligence...may be i nid to read up the culture and history of Chinese, then i will know why they did that...
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Haha, you ease your own heart lo (since you are 'ease' dy)...
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Hehehe...i have my grandma as my teacher on names..hehe..plus a 40-year-old book on that...
She always said, people nowadays prefer English sounds to their chinese name.....haha... westernization...
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Yeah, but i won't be surprise if people start shifting back to Chinese naming in the near future due to China's large market and economical power. Heck, the world is already starting to accept China's English.
And names like Tan Ah Kow may have a meaningful part to it. For example, the person might survive by drinking dog's milk, looked after by a dog, or even saved by a dog when he/she was small. This things happen a lot in the past (don't laugh).
As far as naming is concern, i've even heard of names like Si Pu Liaw which literally means escape death, cannot die, or even immortal. How's that for a cool name.
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Ease, ease, ease...a very nice name indeed. Ease my heart always...hahaha!!!