GTB and I are both home sick, which means we’re currently absorbing the wise and entertaining Today show. We just saw a segment about what NOT to name your baby. Of course, we watched with great interest. They covered the usual offenders: Ima Hooker, Mary A. Belcher. But then they got to a category I’d never thought of before, shockingly: punctuation and grammar. <\/p>\n
As they recounted actual census records of kids named Colon, Vowell, and Verse, GTB must have sensed my excitement. “No!” he exclaimed.<\/p>\n
“Honey, come on. Don’t you think Apostrophe B. would be cute?” I asked.<\/p>\n
He didn’t. <\/p>\n
I’m gonna run the idea by him again in a few weeks. I think it’ll grow on him. Otherwise, I’ll start trying for Subject-Verb Agreement B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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