Masculine and incorrect

[amyeliz.livejournal.com]

A friend on facebook just announced the arrival of her NIECE:

Eliot Dru

This is a triple offense, in my opinion.

1) Those are both male names

2) *Elliot

3) *Drew

I WILL concede that, when I really think about it and remove all memory of Elliot being a male name...it actually sounds feminine and pretty. But I imagine it being spelled Elliette (which is hideous, but I can work on it).

Thoughts? Judgements? Snarky, witty observations?

Comments

[amyeliz.livejournal.com]

Too modern of a spelling for me, as a first name. I do realize T.S. Eliot lived long ago, but that was a surname. The first name, until recent years, was always Elliot or Elliott.

[amyeliz.livejournal.com]

Again, it may have appeared on the charts then (a trend at that point, likely because of T.S. Eliot) but as I said, it was really always Elliot or Elliott for the majority. Not saying that what's popular is always right - just saying for the sake of spelling, I prefer sticking with tradition.

Spelling Aaron as we do makes ABSOLUTELY no sense to me grammatically, yet I shudder when I meet an Aron or Arron.

[amyeliz.livejournal.com]

I understand, but really, if none of us started a discussion in this community because of our opinion or "personal preference" on names...we really wouldn't have anything to talk about, would we?

I never said it wasn't LEGITIMATE to spell it that way. I used the words prefer and opinion consistently...I'm not eager to start a revolution to obliterate alternative spellings.