Tuesday, January 18, 2011

RWO: A Boy Named "Kentucky"

Jess writes:

Children’s names are often reflective of the family’s feelings about the birth event in South Africa. For example, a first-born girl may be named “Happiness”, but a second girl (with no boys in between) may just be named “Again”. On the other hand, boys are almost always given names of optimism, such as “Gift”, “Blessing” or “Thanks”. Our youngest host brother, however, is the fourth in the family, and his name means simply, “The Children are Enough”! Naming is so experience based, in fact, we’ve heard that the year that KFC opened in South Africa, a surprisingly large proportion of the boys were actually named “Kentucky”. Oh how original!

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