When I moved out to Powell County, KY from Lexington, KY in 1993, the first thing I did was read the tiny phone book cover to cover (guess who turned out to be autistic). I was fascinated with the names I found therein. I copied down all the interesting names and names that seemed to be so much more common out there than in Lexington, and then carefully organized the names into a long list of names that I labelled with the locally phonetic heading "naimes f'r yer kieds: whut ta naim yer chald ifya leive in eastirn KY." Since then (I was only 13), I've met several of these people (like my best friend in high school's dad, Ovie), and heard many of these names used in other places besides Powell County. Still, there's something almost tangible about the way people tend toward certain naimes in certain places. I hope you appreciate this list as the sort of entertaining but loving list that I meant it to be. Maybe you recognize some of these folks!
The inside of this zine includes the following lists: The E names, the O names, place names, girl names, boy names, double names and miscellaneous.
Includes some winners such as Sreldie, Amon Zane (I'm insane?), Freg...