One of the most interesting properties about names that came up right away as we were researching baby names was what we later termed -- the 'ancient form of a name'. The best example of it is between the modern name Robert and all its derivative name forms and the ancient form Hreodbeorht. You can only imagine what my wife said when I told her that I wanted to name our son who was expected in 2 months Hreodbeorht. NO NO NO.
I was recently reminded of this origin story in a modern context by one of our very talented developers Daniel (who did the recent beautiful rewrite to our baby names site - babynamer.com) and our director of development Luke.Question: will the origin story for this name in 100 years be Skype - an ancient name meaning a primitive text chat and VOIP communication system?
the redo looks good!
ReplyDeleteI'm still amazed by how long the CF version worked though.
Rich,
ReplyDeleteno doubt. me too. i think its a credit to you and everybody who worked on the original CF version. rest assured i have several versions in the archives for old time sake.
S