What’s in a name?
Names give us identity. People know us by our names. We feel special when our name is acknowledged. Some have short names while others have longer ones. Names can bring us to fame or it can put us to shame, too. The origin of our names have stories to tell as well. Real names are taken anywhere else from a great grandmother’s Restituta ; a memorable place, Florida ; a Hollywood star, Elvis to even a special day, Tuesday . On the other hand, pet names are based on initials like AJ ; physical attributes like Chinky ; the too common thus timeworn Baby or Babes to out-of-this-world sounding names like Perps or Perpski . Somehow, people have an idea of our nationality by our names aside from our physical features. Peculiar as it may sound, some Filipino names are also repeated twice like Ning-ning or a letter H is placed in between a consonant and vowel letters like Bhoy . It's simply Pinoy. Every culture has their own way of writing names as well. In Thailand, they only have two name...