Tuesday 25 March 2008

What's In A Name?

As the next famous female face grimaces during another contraction, her handsome other half searches the dictionary for a unique name that will send his child to the front pages quicker than ever before. "Hey honey, how do you like Apple?" he may enquire. Outside, the gathering media have already got the angle of this now all too familiar story covered. "Celebs take to naming children after fruit etc etc". However, it seems the rich and famous have been on to something all along after a recent survey was taken to coincide with the launch of the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

The survey grilled 6,686 people on their perceptions of names, revealing that certain sounds and links to royalty give the impression of success, luck and/or attractiveness. According to the poll female names that promote attractiveness are soft sounding and end with the "ee" sound. Attractive male names, on the other hand, are short and harder sounding, while links to royalty are said to promote success. In short, this survey does nothing but confirm that Peter Andre and Katie "Jordan" Price are infact genius' for naming their daughter Princess Tiaamii.

So in the interest of giving my future children the best possible start in life, they can have no complaints when they come to realise I named them Empress Fluffy and Prince Nail.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Another solid performance. I like your suggestion about your own kids names. Inspired

 
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