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Spelling Tip for Creative Baby Names – Hard G vs. Soft G

4 Comments | 19 November 2009
Gordana Gehlhausen was a contestant on Project Runway this season. Before the season began, I assumed her first name would be pronounced with a hard G, like Gordon. I was wrong. She pronounces her name with a soft G. I wonder how many other people also got it wrong? Typically, when the letter G is [...]
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Baby Names Needed – Whimsical, Weird Names for Quadruplets

12 Comments | 12 August 2009
Estelle wrote to me recently with a tall order: I’m having quads (!!!) in 4 weeks and I need names! I’m having one boy and three girls. My 4 year old son’s name is Cosmo. My husband and I like spacey, whimsical and weird names. In fact, they “don’t have any limits on how weird a name [...]
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Baby Name Needed – Boy Name for Baby #1

8 Comments | 5 June 2009
A reader named Amy is expecting her first baby, which will be a boy. She writes: I like very old fashioned sounding names (Nathaniel, Jeremiah, Isaiah) and [my husband] likes newer, trendier names (Dylan, Zachary). Our last name starts with a Q so we don’t want anything that that ends in a c/k sound or [...]
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