Sunday, May 19, 2013

Family Factoids



Ahh, the mind as it resists all efforts at sleep.  Who can explain the wanderings and permutations of thought, or the "pairs" and patterns in our family?



  • Milton and Mildred.  
  • The family groups include girl-boy-girl boy (Kent and Ann, Kerry and Melissa) and boy-boy-girl (Richard and Debra, Eric and Shannon).   Jeff and I had no children.  Alan made his own pair by having twins. 
  • The two girls among the siblings married into the names Crandall and Wrathall.



  • Typing a list of the family names might wear out the letter A key.  Alan, Ann, Aaron, Allison, Audrey, Ashlynn, Afton.
  • The surname most revised by a two letter transition: Wrathall to Warthall.
Are there more?  Only another bout of insomnia will provide the answer. . . .

2 comments:

  1. How about all the names that are trochaic spondaic, or stressed, unstressed, stressed, stressed:

    Jeffrey Ray Smith
    Alan Mark Smith
    Phyllis Ann Smith
    Eric James Smith
    Kerry Kirk Smith
    Ethan James Smith
    Gerrit Dean Smith

    I can't remember all my nieces and nephews middle names so there's maybe more.

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    1. Good one! A holdover from our grandfathers' love of poetry? Grandpa Norman wrote it and Grandpa Smith owned several books of poetry.

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