It's over. Thank God.

[iqsi.livejournal.com]

A round up of the worst, best and most interesting from this, the last week of our library's summer reading program. (Sib names, if known, will be put in brackets.)

Mikkel Alexander (Mikayla Alexis)
Troseph Lee
Kale Nathaniel
Cillian Rose (Dalton Jonquil, Toal Lillian)
Dakota Omni
Thomas Lazer
Thymm Devin (Zakk Gregory)
Parker Piper (Hayden Harper)
Sikimiwa Otkssko (Iinii Istoan)

Konnane Akixiun (Savakti Qixak, Mixik Ibeiba, Pablan Pakma) (Parents are Sukun and Uiyula)
Jessalina Marie (Troseph up there is her twin)
Ama Thyst
Khelsei Lydia
Meghan Autumn (Cadence Summer, Danielle Winter)
Andra Skylar (Can't recall their names, but has three older brothers.)
Rihbekkha Kiki (Alixz Bri)
Kimmantha Samberly (Jessalina and Troseph's younger sister.)

And thus concludes Summer Reading in my town. We had a big party to celebrate; there was cake and book reading and obligatory aware giving, and thus instead of being broken up into groups of twenty as always for a brief while all 80-something of them were around. This is the cream of the crop aka the kids whose names stood out or who caught my eye admist the chaos. With the exception of the tribal names, which I support, there was a lot of '...." from me at the spellings some parents chose. And the middle names... well. At least the chaotic party of squealing is over, the cake and ice cream are gone and the place is cleaned. Ages ranged 5-10 and it was a bit chaotic, but I feel like I've learned about the people in my community. (Most of it, I wish I could unlearn.)

What do you think?

Comments

[kjerlandsen.livejournal.com]

What the heck is wrong with some of these parents?!

[iqsi.livejournal.com]

Well, this used to be a mining town. Maybe there's something in the water?

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

Kimmantha Samberly? REALLY? Since when was it okay to chop the names up into pieces and then glue them back together again to create new names? Troseph is equally horrible. At least Jessalina got a decent-ish name in that sibset.

And Ama Thyst? LOL!

[iqsi.livejournal.com]

Kimmantha introduces herself as Kim-Sam. Even she knows better than this. Troseph was really angry nobody could get his name right.

Ama... is five and is thankfully too young for other kids to pick on her for it yet, but I fear for her future.

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

Cillian Rose and sibs are all boys? I think that's the first time I've ever seen boys with girls middles. Interesting.

[iqsi.livejournal.com]

Yes, they are. And they seem to be okay with it, at least for now.

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

Parker Piper?!

I mean, that's not even the worst one, so I shouldn't even have reacted, because I just noticed Rihbekkah Kiki.

[iqsi.livejournal.com]

Rihbekkah Kiki is the 'winner' here for me. No words.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

I know someone who spells it Rebeccha. The family goes "You betcha, Rebeccha!" which annoys the mother something chronic!

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

THE HORROR!!!

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. Every single one of those names is awful!!!

[iqsi.livejournal.com]

Really? Not one of them is okay to you?

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

Thomas. That's about it. The rest? The spellings are just too ridiculous (and I'm only looking at the kids names, not the siblings, really.)

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I like:

Alexander
Nathaniel
Hayden
Cadence Summer, Winter

Cillian Rose, Dalton Jonquil, and Toal Lillian is a very confusing sibset. Why give boys such feminine middle names? I don't get it.

I can also confidently say that Kimmantha Samberly is one of the worst, absolute dumbest, stupidest names I have ever had the displeasure of hearing. WTF.

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

I LIKE:
Nathaniel
Cillian (Lillian - on a girl only.) Cillian and Lillian feel a little too much for one sibset though, even if one is a mn and the other a fn
Thomas
Zakk - spelled Zac/Zak and as a nn only
Khelsei, Lydia - spelled Kelsey only.

[being-lola-star.livejournal.com]

Is it supposed to be Kelsey? My mind auto-corrected it to Khaleesi, like from Game of Thrones...

[iqsi.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's supposed to be Kelsey.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Rebecca (my name) and Rebekah are perfectly good spelling choices. Rihbekkha...I want to cry. Or smack someone. I am guessing Alixz = Alexis?

Yeah, I really want to punch a wall now. This morning, I thought the Cohnor (Connor) I saw was bad.

[iqsi.livejournal.com]

Alixz is indeed supposed to Alexis. Ah, the joys of small redneck towns.

I'm so sorry your name's been butchered like that.