Saturday, May 10, 2008

What's In A Name?

I took the Boy to music school today as I didn't have work. He's in Firebird class and I hadn't seen it before. The teacher's name is Mrs Christmas. I asked Yu-Jin the names of his classmates.
"That's Claudia. That's Xavier (It was actually Ezekiel as Xavier was late for class). And that's Woods."
"Woods? That's a strange name," I said.
"Oh. No, no. That's Forrest."

And I thought I'd given my boy a strange name.

4 comments:

Susan Ham said...

He was on the right track. His name isn't strange, it is just spelled differently from how it sounds.

Iris Flavia said...

:-))) Well, was close!
Xavier sounds very Bavarian and reminds of the very bad singer Xavier Naidoo!

Anonymous said...

Strange not really. Here are the strange names of people we have know Goldsworthy, Danger, Veggie, Kale, Able, Milwauke, Lorry, Lord, Mangie and more... ha ha

Hammy said...

You know some weird people. Or are they just people with weird names?