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Midcentury Nickname Names: Buster and Buddy are back
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  I don’t you know if you’ve noticed a growing trendlet—at least among celebrities—for what we might call generic-boy-nickname-names.  In other words, these aren’t specific short forms like Charlie or Archie, but ol- timey macho boy tags like Buddy and Buster.   In the recent past, we’ve seen Noel Gallagher’s Sonny, a...
Top Boys’ Names: One Mom Puts Her Picks To The Test
Jan 16, 2025
  We first discovered Teresa Strasser when she mentioned us on her hilarious blog, Exploiting My Baby, to be published as a book next year.  (That’s her at the right, pretending to be Heidi Klum.) Like many moms, Teresa spent her entire pregnancy obsessing about names, except unlike most moms, she...
Boys’ Names Ins and Outs
Jan 16, 2025
  Yesterday we took a look at the girls’ names moving in and out of fashion and now we turn our attention to their brothers.   And here we find a somewhat different picture.   Overall, it confirms the fact that there is much greater consistency on the boys’ side of the fence, with...
Willy Wonka & Severus Snape: Alliteration in kids’ book names
Jan 16, 2025
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