The Name Game Revisited

Name fads are weird. Anyone remember the -ette suffix fad from 30 or 40 years back?

I've known a Bernadette, a Collette, an Inette, a Trinette, a Dawnette, several Jeanettes, a Paulette, a Johnette, and I'm sure dozens of others that aren't immediately springing to mind. One particularly good-humored lady mentioned above said that she considered herself lucky not to have been named Kitchenette or Dinette.

I lived in a trailer park during the early to mid-1990s. At that point, I was convinced that every single girl under the age of 14 was named either Britney or Amber.