Naming Kids

Down here we got special way of picking out names for our childrens. With boys, they sometimes gets real high-falootin names on their birth certificate like Williams James, but we calls them short names like Bill Jim. That way when they grows up and gets important they can use their fancy names if they wants to. Girls, a lot of time has middle names what come from their mother's family or other relatives' last names. Like Mary McDevelin. And they is called by both names, usually for the rest of their lives. When parents are younger the names seems to follow set patterns. But when children comes later in a marriage the parents tend to give real special names, names what show great importance. Mildred Spenceworth were in her late forties and her husband Claude Gene were over fifty, when she come up expecting. She had a healthy eight pound daughter and they named her Prunie Jean. When asked why, Mildred claimed prunes was real important to her; she just didn't think she could live without her prunes.