Wordnik.com: Diseases that make lovely baby girl's names: Comments

Comment by chained_bear, 2 months ago

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:08:21 +0000

They're not diseases, but Armada and Militia are possibilities, seen here.

Comment by madmouth, 6 months ago

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:47:40 +0000

is it OK to twiddle some existing disease names to make them sound more feminine?

if not, delete away.

Comment by marco_nj, 10 months ago

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:03:04 +0000

These are great names for fantasy role playing gaming.

Comment by chimp_conspiracy, 10 months ago

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:52:21 +0000

Wonderful to know other people do this too.
I have a pair of degus called Typhus and Chlamydia, for a boy and a girl respectively.

Actually Typhus turned out to also be a girl, but I've never been able to subsequently think of her as one and rename accordingly. Is that psychologically damaging to a rodent?

Come to think of it, my mum calls me rickets.

Comment by quinn, 10 months ago

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:14:16 +0000

done

Comment by chained_bear, 10 months ago

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:02:38 +0000

Okay! Put it on my list then!

Comment by quinn, 10 months ago

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:58:00 +0000

ok, i am actually going to argue with halitosis. hali, maybe, but not halitosis. that doesn't sound like a baby girl's name at all, even with unfortunate names like mackenzie and madison becoming popular.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:45:26 +0000

Right. Exactly so.

Comment by chained_bear, 10 months ago

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:45:46 +0000

Not girls' personality traits -- diseases'.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:09:13 +0000

Well, that's where the fun is, no?

Wait...with this list, maybe not.

Comment by quinn, 10 months ago

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:04:50 +0000

you realize now we're talking about these girl's personality traits.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:52:38 +0000

No worries, quinn. If you've ever experienced sciatica, you'd know she's no shrinking violet.

*winces at the mere thought*

Comment by pterodactyl, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:37:55 +0000

Hey, quinn, thanks for making this list! It's funny how lyrical these words are, given their meanings.

I keep a similar, but broader list: New baby names for girls. If you guys come up with any words that aren't diseases but would nevertheless make lovely names for girls, well, here's a place for them.

Comment by quinn, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:42:32 +0000

Oh no, reesettee, that would be silly. And poor Sciatica, not only does she cause countless people terrible pain, but now I'm saying her name doesn't sound sweet enough.

I'm a mean person.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:25:26 +0000

Quinn, I'd be happy to remove my sciatica contribution if you wish. Although I do think it's a damn funny name for a girl. :-)

Comment by quinn, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:45:53 +0000

I think it works for boys, hence Syphilis, it just seems slightly funnier for girls. Girl's names are just meant to sound sweeter, like Cholera, without self consciousness of the whole death by diarrhea thing. Bilharzia Sciatica and Acne don't work for me as much because they don't have the nearly saccharine sweet sound I'm looking for, but I can still see them.

Comment by chained_bear, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:50:45 +0000

You're right, yarb, I was just being a wanker. Hey! Colon would make a great boys' name. I'm starting a list, here. (Which I'll gladly give to quinn if he/she desires.)

Comment by vanishedone, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:39:37 +0000

Apparently, Colic is a surname.

Comment by yarb, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:32:58 +0000

Diseases tend to have latinate names ending in 'a', which makes them sound feminine.

For some reason the few unfeminine disease-names like mumps don't suggest themselves as names for boys. Flu, maybe?

I think there's a greater flexibility and variety in the naming of girls; it seems to me that society is more accepting of novelty and variation in girls' names than in boys'. So it's not as hard to imagine a world where gonorrhea is a girls' name as it is to imagine a world where colic is a boys' name.

Comment by chained_bear, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:12:05 +0000

That's because men think women are diseases, so diseases (like hurricanes, for a long time) only have girly names.

*poking the Wordie-hive with a big stick*
:)

Comment by yarb, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:39:28 +0000

Acne, pomegranate?? I'm not feeling it.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:15:22 +0000

Fun! Thanks, quinn.

Comment by yarb, 10 months ago

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:11:55 +0000

Thanks for opening it!

n.b. diphtheria is the spelling you want.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:51:52 +0000

I think a complementary boys' names list is in order. :-)

Comment by yarb, 10 months ago

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:44:18 +0000

This is fun - would you mind making it an open list?

And where did I read a very similar idea in a book recently?