Today’s entrant in my own personal contest of Younique Names is the defendant on Judge David Young. Her name is Toprecious.
I’ve long been convinced that there is a set of dice floating around out there. Instead of dots or numbers, the faces of these dice are phonemes. You simply roll them to come up with a name for your child like (almost) no other.
I’m sure Toprecious’ mother didn’t need the dice, however, seeing as her name is basically just a wooogirl expression chanted over many babies, puppies, kittens and pairs of expensive shoes. (“that is just too precious!”). The greater irony is that her name is indeed too precious by far. It definitely beats out LaTrina in the overall standings.
Sadly, the word nerd in me is mostly upset by the fact that her name is misspelled. Shouldn’t it be Tooprecious? Ah well.
I agree that it should be Tooprecious. You may be right about the dice. The names just keep getting stranger and stranger.
My wife and I are expecting our first child in May, and last night we had fun looking across the Web for name ideas. I told her that my current preference, if we have a girl, is to name her Magnus Thaddeus Tobias Robinson. We’ll keep you posted.
a nurse friend of mine, that once worked in a Nashville labor and delivery ward said her all time favorite name was “Placenta”
Sadly, the word nerd in me is mostly upset by the fact that her name is misspelled.
I can’t believe I’m hearing something like this coming from a person who’s writing a novel set in the middle ages.
But it’s the Middle Ages in Wales. Everyone is named “David”
And some of them spell it that way, and some of them spell it Dawydd, or Dawyd, or Dawudd, or Davidd, and I’d even bet that some of them spelled it Dewydd.
you forgot Dyffdd
I love Welsh.
So think of little Toprecious as the modern equivalent of Dyffdd, Adalgise, Berenguela, or the like. I promise you, the first time some family in Provence named their kid Adalgise, half the town said “what kind of name is that?” and the other half said “they at least ought to spell it “Adalghisa.”
I actually like “Toprecious”, if it were pronounced in the standard way:
toe-pree-seus
Kind of sounds like a Roman emperor:
“The Gallic armies were defeated by the forces of Emperor Toprecius” (of course, dropping the “o” to get in line with latin spelling).
“Have you met his wife? Incontinentia Buttocks…”
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True, some of the names you hear these days are different, but on the other hand, those kids aren’t one out of seven Jims or Bobbys or Brittanys.
I read it like Slarti suggested. I thought it was a hearkening back to Rome.
I think To’precia