Name...

Jul. 20th, 2007 12:13 am
[identity profile] crzyascanb.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] babynames
A friend of mine from high school is having a girl.
The name they have picked out is Berklie Keragan.
WDYT??

Date: 2007-07-20 05:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] areyoustrange.livejournal.com
In many parts of the English speaking world, the word 'berk' is an insult much like dork. To me, that name is like Dorklie. Keragen (spelled 'Kerrigan') is the name of the most famous bogan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan) family (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_%28film%29) in the world.

That name in Australia would make people laugh themselves to death. Indeed, I may have already ruptured something just now.

Date: 2007-07-20 05:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-cherrydarling.livejournal.com
Not a big fan of any spelling, but I'd like it more if it was spelled Berkeley Kerrigan.

Date: 2007-07-20 05:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] monalyssasmile.livejournal.com
Ouch that hurt my eyes.

Date: 2007-07-20 05:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladydiddymus.livejournal.com
as in like, Nancy Keragan? that may not even be the same spelling but that's what it makes me think of. plus I'm from West Virginia and Berkeley is the name of a county here, so whenever I read it I kind of hear it in a country voice, hahaha. ew.

Date: 2007-07-20 07:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rubytitania.livejournal.com
Berk is actually rhyming slang for something much more offensive. Berkely Hunt...

Date: 2007-07-20 07:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 0o-faerie.livejournal.com
It reminds me of that university...isn't Berkeley a university? Or college?
I don't really like that name...but it's original ;)

Date: 2007-07-20 07:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] th3-unicorn.livejournal.com
I suppose if she weren't into kr8tyvv spelling that would be Berkeley Kerrigan? Now that would have made sense to me..
I kind of like Berkeley..at least is the name of a place.
I wouldn't have minded Carrigan. Although it's too close to "carry a gun" lol

Date: 2007-07-20 07:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] th3-unicorn.livejournal.com
yes, it is, it's located in California :)

Date: 2007-07-20 08:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jordle.livejournal.com
I like it but I'd spell it Berkeley :)

Date: 2007-07-20 09:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zante.livejournal.com
I don't like Berklie but my cousins' name is Carrigan, kind of like Kerrigan. I like Carrigan better as a spelling :)

Date: 2007-07-20 12:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wake-tonight.livejournal.com
Yep, reminds me so much of the Kerrigans from the Castle. Funny film but not something you'd want as a namesame for your child... As a PP said, if I met someone called Kerrigan I would laugh myself silly. I could not take them at all seriously.

Berklie looks like a trendy spelling. I wouldn't want berk in my kids name either.

Date: 2007-07-20 02:42 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-07-20 02:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fleckerbug.livejournal.com
Oh god, it makes me want to cry.

Date: 2007-07-20 03:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neroli.livejournal.com
That's really rather wretched. I bet she won't get through the first week of school before they start calling her jerk-lee.

Date: 2007-07-20 04:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] waitingonsunday.livejournal.com
I knew a girl in elementary school named Berkeley. I wouldn't use it myself, but I actually liked it (with that spelling, at least). Now it also makes me think of the college, of course, and the fact that that's the school Elaine attended in The Graduate, where Ben basically kinda sorta stalked her. "ELAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINE!" Keragan would immediately bring to mind, as someone mentioned above, Nancy Kerrigan. Screaming, "WHY, GOD? WHYYYYY?".

Date: 2007-07-20 08:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sotypical42483.livejournal.com
I think poor girl :( that name sucks big time.

Date: 2007-07-20 10:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eleanorgrace.livejournal.com
Yes, but as a name it's actually (weirdly) pronounced BARK-lee. At least as the philosopher's surname, it is. Dunno why; I always thought that was annoying.

Date: 2007-07-21 09:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fleckerbug.livejournal.com
UC Berkley.. located in Berkeley, California.

Date: 2007-07-21 09:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kitchen-poet.livejournal.com
sorry, but i don't like it. i assume she means like Berkley, CA and the misspelling is`awful, but there is a town out here spelled Berklie, pron. BARK-ley, which i think is even worse. And Kerrigan is just not my style at all. :(

Date: 2007-07-22 04:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrs-tobe.livejournal.com
That name is just not feminine in the least. I'm from California, so the first thing I think of is the town Berkeley. And broccoli. And Kerrigan just makes me think of the ice skater. Just....ick.

Date: 2007-07-23 02:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] easter.livejournal.com
I think absolutely, positively not.

Date: 2007-07-23 09:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-good-ship.livejournal.com
It's actually Berkshire (pronounced Barkshire, even though berk's as you would expect.) Hunt, but yeah, rhyming slang...

Date: 2007-07-23 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rubytitania.livejournal.com
Lol, yes that was a slip of the, er, fingers because of the name^^
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