(Prompted by a college classmate's recent posting about the birth of her first daughter.)
If you're announcing the girl's name, and then you immediately have to post a pronunciation guide for both the first and the middle name, you FAIL. When your daughter grows up, she will harbor resentment toward you in a special place in her heart. Go back to baby-naming 101.
(Incidentally, what does it mean that I, who most likely will not have kids, have such strong opinions about baby names?)
This reminds me of a store near my house called okw. On the storefront sign, there's a phonetic spelling in parentheses. Funny how I cannot remember how to say it. Okoo? Ku-oo? Who-oo cares?
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