If anyone likes the name Abcde that much,

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86. My friends are having twins. She is now considering Abcde & Dbace.

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Abcde (Ab-see-dee with accent on 2nd syllable. Dbace sounds like the Italian name De Biase with the letter sounds D-B-A-C.

They have a list of about 8 names and I don't know what they will ultimately choose.

Already on her short list was Flossie and Freddie. (The twins are fraternal).

Some here may remember Flossie and Freddie as the younger set of twins in the old Readers featuring Nan and Bert/Flossie and Freddie.

Their mother is an English teacher with certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Their Dad is an engineer who had to flee a
northern Africa country for humanitarian reasons and has been granted asylum

They have a four year old girl named Obsidian. Sometimes her grandparents call her "Dee-dee" for short or Little Sid.

My friends are global in outlook but also have a vegetable plot and sell fresh vegetables in our local farmers market. They are planning to move to a nearby town where the mother teaches English. The town is the most diverse in our state and although relatively small over 100 different languages are spoken there.

They are not anticipating any problems with the names they eventually choose, although another of our friends doesn't favor "Flossie" because it makes her think about dental floss.

I had told them about the controversy on DU about the alphabet letter naming, and they embraced the idea. The mother, who was born here, loves the alphabet, teaching English, and promoting literacy. The father speaks very good English and jokes that he might prefer to have a numerical name himself-but realizes that many people are not ready for this. He pointed out to me that many people with commonplace names are now using numbers along with their names in their email addresses, such as johnsmith432.

I am thinking of inventing a lapel pin that pronounces ones name because we are going to increasingly be introduced to names with which are unfamiliar.