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[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

Sometimes when I'm bored I browse parenting/family blogs. Today I came across these gems...

Scottlyn (g)
Kaisley (g)
Briggs (b)

These in particular struck me as atrocious... I've never heard of them being used before. WdYT?

Comments

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

One of the almost-two year old boys at my daycare is named Briggs. I've been working there since he was like 10 months old, and I still think it's a weird name.

The other two are really bad.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

Sigh.

[mommyaubrey.livejournal.com]

Briggs is a last name.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

YUUUUUCK. I bet Scottlyn is going to be called Scottie all her life. Poor kid. And Kaisley looks like someone combined Kaitlin and Paisley into one. At this rate, I actually long for the days of the Jennifer craze.

[starskye.livejournal.com]

I don't like any of them. Scottlyn and Briggs are especially awful. Kaisley just looks like someone is trying too hard to be different/trendy. It would blend right in with the Kylie's and Kaylie's.

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

Scottlyn seems very awkward to me. I guess they were going for a "name-ified" version of Scotland? Kaisley makes me want to bang my head against a wall. But Briggs takes the cake. I know some people love the surname-as-first-name, but I don't, and this one isn't "name-like" at all. Also, I'm from a military family, and "the brig" means jail. As in, "that sailor peed on the admiral's door, throw him in the brig." So I can't imagine naming a child Briggs any more than naming him Jail Cells.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I don't understand this whole Scottlyn, Irelyn thing. I love Ireland, and would use it, so it's not that, but land and lyn are not the same thing and it just makes everybody look like idiots.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

For some reason, Briggs isn't bothering me like I feel it should. My first thought is brig, meaning jail. My second thought is the Myers-Brigg personality test.

The other two definitely make me gag.