Comments on: Name of the Day: Bruce http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/20/name-of-the-day-bruce/ Where Every Name Has a Story Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:48:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Fetching Names: Getting to Lulu | Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/20/name-of-the-day-bruce/#comment-27594 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:27:41 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=462#comment-27594 [...] appellation from leading lady Tallulah Bankhead to starbabies Tallulah Belle Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, and Tallulah Fyfe, daughter of Patrick Dempsey.  Perhaps the most daring [...]

]]> By: Sunday Summary: 11/27/11 | Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/20/name-of-the-day-bruce/#comment-26926 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:40:32 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=462#comment-26926 [...] link.)  Cody is a great namer of characters.  Will she re-christen the twins?  How ’bout Bruce or Enid?  Could this be the nudge that pushes Lila into the Top [...]

]]> By: Baby Name of the Day: Wayne | Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/20/name-of-the-day-bruce/#comment-20277 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:04:34 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=462#comment-20277 [...] the caped crusader, Batman.  Carefree billionaire playboy by day, champion of justice by night.  Bruce Wayne and his heroic alter ego debuted in a 1939 comic, and have evolved over the decades into a [...]

]]> By: Sunday Summary: 4/17/11 | Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/20/name-of-the-day-bruce/#comment-20167 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:01:23 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=462#comment-20167 [...] how many of the original characters return.  There were some great names among the cast: Enid, Bruce, Lila, Betsy, George, [...]

]]> By: Baby Name of the Day: Pamela | Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/20/name-of-the-day-bruce/#comment-19883 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:04:27 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=462#comment-19883 [...] Pamela Harriman was born the daughter of an Earl, married the son of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and later in life became U.S. Ambassador to France in her own right.  Harriman’s mother was born Constance Pamela Alice Bruce. [...]

]]> By: Baby Name of the Day: Ismay | Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/20/name-of-the-day-bruce/#comment-19796 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:03:54 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=462#comment-19796 [...] survives primarily as a surname, and it might bring one bearer to mind almost immediately: J. Bruce [...]

]]> By: WHAT’S IN MY NAME and BIRTHMONTH? « Chronicles of the Unsaid http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/20/name-of-the-day-bruce/#comment-13587 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:54:53 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=462#comment-13587 [...] Pennypacker, fictional butler to Bruce Wayne – aka [...]

]]> By: Name of the Day: Alfred « Appellation Mountain http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/20/name-of-the-day-bruce/#comment-2559 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:06:48 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=462#comment-2559 [...] Pennypacker, fictional butler to Bruce Wayne – aka [...]

]]> By: Lola http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/20/name-of-the-day-bruce/#comment-1418 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:07:13 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=462#comment-1418 No worries, Kayt, James Kenneth is dashing in his own right. I think you guys did a fine job compromising. :)

]]> By: Emmy Jo http://appellationmountain.net/2008/08/20/name-of-the-day-bruce/#comment-1406 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:33:09 +0000 http://appellationmountain.wordpress.com/?p=462#comment-1406 I love Kenneth! I’ve had a few friends named Kenneth in both my generation and my parents’ generation, so it doesn’t sound too old and stuffy to me.

I want to like Bruce, especially since it’s Scottish, but I just can’t. It sounds rather brutish to me.

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