Posted by Dinah on September 16, 2008, at 23:12:33
In reply to Re: Name mismatch » Dinah, posted by TexasChic on September 16, 2008, at 22:06:08
I'm afraid of offending someone, since in part it's a human name. :)
And a perfectly nice human name, if it were a good match. After all, we liked it enough to pick it.
Even as a puppy, the day I met her I told my husband that the name we had chosen just wouldn't do. The puppy was clearly a Margaret, or maybe an Elizabeth. Perhaps Meggie or Maggie for short. But he loved the name we had pre-chosen. He looked so disappointed that I dropped the subject. And that was as a puppy.
You'd have to see this dog to understand why it bugs me so much. She's not really pretty so much as she is lovely. A beautiful arch of neck, a very elegant wedge of a face, eyes that manage to be alert and soft at the same time. If you think of the original movie Lassie, that's very very much what she looks like.
I suppose I'm really lucky that the name we chose for my son turned out to fit him nicely. I have never thought my name fit me at all. I'd like to change my real name to "Dinah". :)
I know it's necessary to name people as babies. But wouldn't it be nice if at age thirty or so, people were given a chance to change their first names?
The little one, it's not quite so bad with her. I regret that I didn't choose a better name for her. The one I chose, however wonderful a name it might be otherwise, just seems a bit too much for her to carry on those teensy legs. Like a little girl playing dress-up. But she seems to enjoy it. If we stretch it giving full weight to all syllables, she gets more and more excited.
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