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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Re: Kristine

[asciident]

Though I wonder whether the Christels in the US are from "Crystal" or from the "Christ-" root underlying the other names. (Or both?)

I was referring specifically to Christel (which, at least IME, is pronounced differently from Crystal), though I suppose they could both have the same origin.

Speaking of horrible spellings, I found the Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing website really amusing. ;)

Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing

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There are certainly some doozies on that website.