Couple in Sweeden name child Q.

[caketastydelish]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/swedenoffbeat

Fri May 8, 12:09 pm ET

STOCKHOLM (AFP) – A couple in Sweden has appealed to the country's supreme court in their fight to name their baby boy "Q", legal papers showed Friday.

Judges ruled in the couple's first appeal in January that Q was not an "appropriate" name for a child, arguing that Swedish law forbade names consisting of just one letter.

In their written appeal to Sweden's Supreme Court, the parents Rickard Rehnberg and Thitathorn Sukjit called on judges to reverse the previous ruling.

"There is now a child who answers to the name of Q. What does Sweden gain by forcing him to take on a new name?" they said.

In an earlier judgement in September 2008, Rehnberg and Sukjit told the court they had named the boy Q after the eccentric inventor from the James Bond films, a claim they have not since repeated.

The Swedish Supreme Court was expected to give its verdict within the coming months.

 

[Tee Kay]

I object less to the proposed name than the couple wasting public resources on a silly appeal.

 

[Camikaze]

Nothing beats "Tula Does The Hula From Hawaii".

 

[Rashiminos]

Naming you child Q won't give him advanced knowledge of space and time, but it may lead to an abnormal interest in Patrick Stewart.

 

[aronnax]

Sweden has a knack for this doesn't it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116

 

[BC1871]

Is that any worse than calling your child Brooklyn, Neveah or Apple?

 

[scherbchen]

I object less to the proposed name than the couple wasting public resources on a silly appeal.

yup, I agree. especially as the appeal is silly. a lot of the people I know (three in my immeadiate family) are not called by the name on their birth certificate or driver's license. keep calling him "Q" *shrug*. either the kid likes it and will use the name later on or shed it.

pretty much a non-issue.

 

[Mise]

If the problem is having one letter, why not name him Queue or Cue or Kew?

 

[aronnax]

yup, I agree. especially as the appeal is silly. a lot of the people I know (three in my immeadiate family) are not called by the name on their birth certificate or driver's license. keep calling him "Q" *shrug*. either the kid likes it and will use the name later on or shed it.

pretty much a non-issue.

Or fester a compulsive hatred for his parents after being smacked down hard on the playground.

Whatever...

 

[Mise]

Is Q even a letter in Sweden?

 

[Masada]

yup, I agree. especially as the appeal is silly. a lot of the people I know (three in my immeadiate family) are not called by the name on their birth certificate or driver's license. keep calling him "Q" *shrug*. either the kid likes it and will use the name later on or shed it.

Word. I can't think of anyone who has been able to

A) pronounce my name; or
B) remember its full length; or
C) take it seriously.

So I go by a name which is a transliteration/semi-Anglicization of a name which is close to my actual name (and not a transliteration/semi-Anglicization of my actual name, 2 degrees of separation ftw )

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I don't have an issue with Q, what I object to is wasting the Courts time in the first place by taking this to Court and then forcing these poor parents to appeal to the Supreme Court (I'm also guessing than any name change is going to cost money...nothing like drumming up business in the off-season then I guess ).

 

[Snorrius]

Well, Q is not really a problem. In Russia a couple fights for naming a child as "BOCh RVF 260602" which is abbreviated from "Biological Human Object of the Voronin-Frolov's kin borned on 26 June 2002".

 

[Trajan12]

Eh. It's not "Number 15 Bus Shelter".

 

[Formaldehyde]

Is that any worse than calling your child Brooklyn, Neveah or Apple?

"Why did he name her after a car?" Kevin Kline referring to Portia in "A Fish Called Wanda".

Good thing Prince doesn't live in Sweden...

 

[musekick]

Good thing Prince doesn't live in Sweden...

But the parents could follow his example and name the child "The child formerly known as Q".

 

[crabapple]

Is Q even a letter in Sweden?

what sort of question is that? of course it IS!

 

[Mise]

Name a Swedish word with Q in it!

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Name a Swedish word with Q in it!

There are probably a very few loan words, but the main reason Swedish has Q is probably to be able to spell the names of foreigners decently.

 

[Love]

We never use "Q"

As we never use "W", "X" or "Z"

I read an article on rejected names. Henkefreddyzlatan (a combined name of swedens top three football players). I think "Pope" and Chewbacca was also in that list.

"Love" was rejected in the 70ths

 

[emzie]

Awesome name, I think.

Is Quisling a word in Swedish?