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Thursday, July 8th, 2010 12:40 pm
rolanni: (greeneyes)
So, I was over at a cat grooming site -- I cleverly closed the window before copying the URL, so I can't tell you which cat grooming site -- that offered a cat personality quiz. At the far end of the quiz, having assured me that my cat is "affectionate," I was provided with a list of "friendly cat names." The list (which I did remember to save, is reproduced below for your perusal:

Friendly cat names: Bailey, Casey, Callie, Daisy, Frodo, Maggie, Peaches, Mimi, Molly, Sam, Toby, Toodles

Now, leaving aside that I feel naming anyone "Toodles" to be an act of extreme unfriendliness - what makes these names particularly "friendly"? Are there inherently "friendly" names? Really? And if so, are there inherently "unfriendly" names? Well, OK -- Toodles. But seriously.

Let's take a random list of names:

Winnie
Hexapuma
Arwen
Archie
Kodi
Mozart
Felicia
Rasheed
Inez
Totoro
Lorraine
Butch

...which are friendly? Which are unfriendly? Defend your position.
rolanni: (sharontea)
Swiped from [livejournal.com profile] kristine_smith

Sharon is the #20 most common female first name

0.522% of females in the US are named Sharon.

Around 639450 US females are named Sharon!

source: namestatistics.com



Lee is the #24 most common last name

0.22% of last names in the US are Lee.

Around 550000 people have Lee as a last name!

source: namestatistics.com



One cannot of course help noticing, when one is ego-surfing, just how many Sharon Lees there are populating the internets. What's interesting is how many of us are writers, artists, reporters, professors.

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