Baby names

We used to have more girl names than boy names… but recently we kind of agreed on a boy name. So when the doctor said it would probably be a girl, we were thrown a bit :)

We've got a name we kind of like right now—Amy. Dead simple for Americans to recognise, but Germans also have a decent chance of pronouncing it after hearing it. Whether they'll be able to pronounce it on reading it or spell it on hearing it remains to be seen; I'm not sure how well-known the name is over here, but it's not completely unknown.

One reason I like it, though, is that it fits into the phonology/morphology of some other languages I know, such as Greek (η Έϊμη, της Έϊμης, την Έϊμη [i Amy, tis Amys, tin Amy]), Japanese (e.g. 詠美, 英美, 瑛美, 栄美, 永美—which, incidentally, would all be "Yeongmi" / "Young-Mee" in Korean), and Verdurian (Eymi, Eymë, Eyma, Eymin). Pity that -ий (-iy) is a masculine ending in Russian, and that it wouldn't work in Lojban which requires names to end in a consonant.

...I'm such a dork.

Random thought

There's a girl (I keep forgetting her name, but I think it might be Nadine)—when I first saw her, I thought "She looks as if she's older than she looks".

Does that make any sense? After all, if she looks as if she's older than she looks, shouldn't that mean that she looks her age?

At any rate, it made sense to me at the time. Something like "She looks young. But something about her says that she's older than the rest of her looks."

One little, two little, three little... um... children named Amy

I was thinking about the name "Amy" and how it's inflected in other languages and thought that in Greek, the plural would probably be οι Έϊμες, των Εϊμών, τις Έϊμες (unless it goes like δύναμη, in which case it'd be οι Έϊμεις, των Έϊμεων, τις Έϊμεις) and in Verdurian it'd be Eymĭ, Eymië, Eymem, Eymin.

But what is it in English? What goes in the blank in the sentence "How many ______ do you know?"?

I'd guess it'd be "Amys"… even though by the normal rules of English morphology it'd have to be "Amies". But somehow, inflecting proper nouns seems strange to me.

What is the correct plural of a name such as "Amy"?

(And I wonder how "Eimi", or whatever the name would be to correspond with Finnish morphology, would inflect in Finnish.)