Favorite Gen X name?

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Anonymous wrote:now let's have the debate on how to pronounce Laura ;P

Easy. LORE-uh

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Anonymous wrote:Claudia...so sweet valley high!

Lol Claudia was from Babysitters Club not Sweet Valley

Babysitters Club was Millenial, not Gen X.

No, def Gen X. I was born in 1975. And my friends and I started our own Babysitting club in middle school because of these books.

Babysitter was Millennial?—HA!!! Blasphemy!!! It was for the younger GenX. I read it in 1986-1990 when I was 10-13. It’s a long-ass series, though, so no doubt it trickled to Millennials. But it is firmly rooted in GenX.

Interesting. I'm a Gen X'er born in '69 and never heard of the Babysitter's Club until I was an adult. The big things I remember were Judy Blume, the Beverley Cleary books, Nancy Drew, and Trixie Belden.

You would have been too old for them. My sister and I (b 1975 and 1978) read them in our tween years.

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Anonymous wrote:Claudia...so sweet valley high!

Lol Claudia was from Babysitters Club not Sweet Valley

Babysitters Club was Millenial, not Gen X.

No, def Gen X. I was born in 1975. And my friends and I started our own Babysitting club in middle school because of these books.

Babysitter was Millennial?—HA!!! Blasphemy!!! It was for the younger GenX. I read it in 1986-1990 when I was 10-13. It’s a long-ass series, though, so no doubt it trickled to Millennials. But it is firmly rooted in GenX.

Interesting. I'm a Gen X'er born in '69 and never heard of the Babysitter's Club until I was an adult. The big things I remember were Judy Blume, the Beverley Cleary books, Nancy Drew, and Trixie Belden.

You would have been too old for them. My sister and I (b 1975 and 1978) read them in our tween years.

I'm 1973 and never heard of BSC either until it got rebooted. I wonder if I am just too old for it

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Anonymous wrote:My cheerleading squad circa 1988:

Candace

I have a best friend named Candice. I also like Cadence. And Harmony.

So, yeah, I like names that others despise

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Anonymous wrote:Claudia...so sweet valley high!

Lol Claudia was from Babysitters Club not Sweet Valley

Babysitters Club was Millenial, not Gen X.

No, def Gen X. I was born in 1975. And my friends and I started our own Babysitting club in middle school because of these books.

Babysitter was Millennial?—HA!!! Blasphemy!!! It was for the younger GenX. I read it in 1986-1990 when I was 10-13. It’s a long-ass series, though, so no doubt it trickled to Millennials. But it is firmly rooted in GenX.

Interesting. I'm a Gen X'er born in '69 and never heard of the Babysitter's Club until I was an adult. The big things I remember were Judy Blume, the Beverley Cleary books, Nancy Drew, and Trixie Belden.

You would have been too old for them. My sister and I (b 1975 and 1978) read them in our tween years.

I'm 1973 and never heard of BSC either until it got rebooted. I wonder if I am just too old for it

No, I think you're the target demographic.

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My second daughter has the middle name Renee. I had a very sweet friend named Renee in middle school. I think it is pretty. And it just sounds nice as a middle name.

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Anonymous wrote:Claudia...so sweet valley high!

Lol Claudia was from Babysitters Club not Sweet Valley

Babysitters Club was Millenial, not Gen X.

No, def Gen X. I was born in 1975. And my friends and I started our own Babysitting club in middle school because of these books.

Babysitter was Millennial?—HA!!! Blasphemy!!! It was for the younger GenX. I read it in 1986-1990 when I was 10-13. It’s a long-ass series, though, so no doubt it trickled to Millennials. But it is firmly rooted in GenX.

Interesting. I'm a Gen X'er born in '69 and never heard of the Babysitter's Club until I was an adult. The big things I remember were Judy Blume, the Beverley Cleary books, Nancy Drew, and Trixie Belden.

You would have been too old for them. My sister and I (b 1975 and 1978) read them in our tween years.

I'm 1973 and never heard of BSC either until it got rebooted. I wonder if I am just too old for it

No, I think you're the target demographic.

not this poster, but I read BSC I think starting in middle school (so, tween years?). I was a 77 baby, although I skipped a year so I was with mostly 76 babies in school. I probably read the first 20 or so, then got into other stuff. I was probably reading sweet valley high right along with it.

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Anonymous wrote:now let's have the debate on how to pronounce Laura ;P

Law-rah (Laura) and Law-ree (Laurie), but Lore-ee (Lori). And you just know Lori dotted the i with a heart!

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Anonymous wrote:Rachel
Jill
Kerri (prefer it to Carey)
Amy
Danielle
Katie

I don't like:

Stephanie
Jennifer
Courtney

Those are both weird spellings. The traditional way is Carrie.

Two different names- or is that a regional pronunciation thing? Kerri and Carrie, to me, are pronounced completely differently

That must be regional. I grew up in the PNW and we pronounced those two names the same way.

Completely different names. Pronounced different. Carrie is usually short for Carlott, Caroline, etc. Kerri (Kerry) is an Irish name.

Not different names at all, pronounced exactly the same. All the Carries I know are stand-alone, not nicknames.

I'm a late-70s Carrie, short for Caroline. That was my mom's doing. She started it when I was a baby. I've only met one or two other women who are Carolines going by Carrie.

I have never heard anyone pronounce Carrie/Kerry/Carey/Cari/Keri differently.

Carrie rhymes with scary, so Kerry rhymes with....?

Carrie rhymes with Harry (not pronounced Hairy) and Kerry rhymes with Ferry (not pronounced Fairy).

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This thread is further evidence that Generation X is the worst, most irrelevant group of people this country has ever produced.


But fear not, we, your kids, are going fix everything you screwed up.

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Anonymous wrote:Rachel
Jill
Kerri (prefer it to Carey)
Amy
Danielle
Katie

I don't like:

Stephanie
Jennifer
Courtney

Those are both weird spellings. The traditional way is Carrie.

Two different names- or is that a regional pronunciation thing? Kerri and Carrie, to me, are pronounced completely differently

That must be regional. I grew up in the PNW and we pronounced those two names the same way.

Completely different names. Pronounced different. Carrie is usually short for Carlott, Caroline, etc. Kerri (Kerry) is an Irish name.

Not different names at all, pronounced exactly the same. All the Carries I know are stand-alone, not nicknames.

I'm a late-70s Carrie, short for Caroline. That was my mom's doing. She started it when I was a baby. I've only met one or two other women who are Carolines going by Carrie.

I have never heard anyone pronounce Carrie/Kerry/Carey/Cari/Keri differently.

Carrie rhymes with scary, so Kerry rhymes with....?

Carrie rhymes with Harry (not pronounced Hairy) and Kerry rhymes with Ferry (not pronounced Fairy).

PP. So few people in the U.S. pronounce it as such that it sounds unnatural. Do you also say fa-nance instead of fi-nance?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is further evidence that Generation X is the worst, most irrelevant group of people this country has ever produced.


But fear not, we, your kids, are going fix everything you screwed up.

wow. that's quite a statement.

I mean, GenX is the forgotten generation anyway - we couldn't have screwed anything up.

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so, wait, you're telling me Philly and Boston pronounce ANYTHING correctly?

GTFOH

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is further evidence that Generation X is the worst, most irrelevant group of people this country has ever produced.


But fear not, we, your kids, are going fix everything you screwed up.

wow. that's quite a statement.

I mean, GenX is the forgotten generation anyway - we couldn't have screwed anything up.

except maybe the kids who are making statements this obnoxious

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is further evidence that Generation X is the worst, most irrelevant group of people this country has ever produced.


But fear not, we, your kids, are going fix everything you screwed up.

wow. that's quite a statement.

I mean, GenX is the forgotten generation anyway - we couldn't have screwed anything up.

except maybe the kids who are making statements this obnoxious

GenX is going to get screwed by the Boomers who can't/won't retire and then they will be considered too old to advance and will get lapped by the Millennials. So, don't blame anything on them. They won't have a chance to be at the helm.