Random thought: Kris and variants

[pne]

I think that the spellings "Kristina" / "Kristopher" / "Kris" with initial K- look ugly. As in, icky icky "who would want to call their child that, that's just Wrong" ugly.

Oddly enough, perhaps, I'm fine with "Kristen", "Kristin", and "Kirsten" (and "Kerstin", which I haven't seen on a native English speaker)—possibly because I haven't seen those names spelled with Chr-.

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[robnorth.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, I'm used to the Ch- beginning, having lived in Canada all my life.

On the other hand, my wife is of Swedish origin, and we named our second daughter Kristina, in part after a favourite aunt. And now I can never think of her as a Christina. (We mostly call her Tina, but when I think "/kris'ti:n@/", I think "Kristina" with her, never "Christina".)

(To be honest, when I think of "Christina", I think of this gorgeous girl who was in my grade through junior high and high school. But I was the broken-glasses socially-inept nerdy geek, so asking her out was never an option. Sigh.)