A friend recently remarked that he hated “trendy” names like “Brody” and “Jayden.” Yahoo answers suggests not only that he has company [1][2][3], but that there are certain patterns common to trendy names that mark them as neo-praenomenisms, like the replacement of “a” with “ay” or “ae” to represent the sound /eI/ (s/Jaden/Jayden), and the [...]

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