The Shill writes:
LE and I are having some trouble coming up a with a name for Tiny the Wonder Fetus after I’ve whelped in October (the word whelp cracks me up). Perhaps your readers could help. Maybe they have some thoughts on the prevalence of the -ayl and -ade sounds and why people give their kids moronic names.
Come on, folks, let’s name that baby!
Here are some things to help you out. The Shill’s kid will have a last name that is not Hiebert, but suffers from a similar set of vowels. Both the Shill and the Legal Eagle have perfectly fine, perfectly ordinary names. In fact, the Shill’s first name is so common that, if she’d taken the Legal Eagle’s last name, she would have had the same name as one of her sisters-in-law.
Many of Tiny’s cousins have, in my opinion, ridiculous names, like Wolf and Keagan.
Also, there’s probably no way Tiny’s going to be named Steve.
My choices: Henry and Isabel.