It’s time to think of names for the
baby.
I’m quite taken with old movie star
names.
At the top of my tree are the names
‘Errol’ for a boy and ‘Zsa Zsa’ for a girl.
Other preferred boy names include:
Rock, Gene, Burt and Humphrey.
For girls, I also like Ginger, Marlene,
Rita and Uma.
I’ve tried a few combinations out, and
am thinking that these sound the best:
Zsa Zsa Ginger Sponge
or
Errol Rock Sponge
I really like Rock Sponge. And there is
no room to be teased at school with that one*.
* Until they study pumice stones.
But conversely, I also like ancient God
and Goddess names.
When I delve into my books, I am drawn
to names such as Osiris and Ra.
It appears that Osiris had a child with
his sister, Isis, called Horus. Nobody seemed to bat an eyelid about incest in
the days before Jesus was invented, and Horus was just one of many such
hook-ups.
Ra was the Sun God. It’s an easy to
remember, one syllable word. It will only cause confusion if the child is
playing hide and seek and someone yells out ‘Rahh!’ to try and scare another
participant. This might cause my Ra to emerge from his hiding place and as a
result, lose the game.
Egyptian names can be muddling, as few
sound gender-specific. That’s where ancient Greek names are useful.
Nobody is going to think that Oceanus
is a girl’s moniker. Only a male could have the word ‘anus’ as the majority of their
name and think nothing of it.
For girls, it is hard to go past
Slatababa, which means Golden Woman in Siberian, and Semele, a Greek Godess. Though I wonder how
Semele might be mispronounced?
Perhaps Arsinoe, the name of a Greek
& Egyptian Goddess, is a better option.
Arsinoe Sponge, Semele Sponge. It’s so
hard to decide.
If the baby is a boy, I’ll name him Apollo
Sponge, and buy him a 90’s Holden on his seventeenth birthday to celebrate.
I would think someone like Victoria Sponge would keep with a theme and use some food names like Hazelnut, Guava, Eclair or something. Maybe something like Peppermint Sponge.
ReplyDeleteOoh I am liking Eclair as a name!
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