Brand naming kids

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:48 PM -0500 3/29/04, Geoffrey Nathan wrote:
>  >Poster:       David Bergdahl <einstein at FROGNET.NET>
>>Subject:      Re: Brand naming kids
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>>A friend of mine's kid--20 yrs old-- has the middle name of
>Allegra--way
>>before the medicinal use...
>
>The name Allegra occurs in Longfellow's poem 'The Children's
>Hour', where he talks about his (real) daughter with that
>name:
>
>Grave Alice, laughing Allegra
>And Edith with golden hair.
>
Allegra was also the name of Lord Byron's daughter (1817-1822), who
had a short but eventful life, and was named way WAY before the
medicine.

Larry Horn