When I was a kid, my mom got a stray cat from some friends of the family who had found the stray but could not keep her. We named her Tess, which stood for the names of the family who gave her to us: Tom, Eric and Sandra.
We left the extra S on for savings.
I thought it was a unique naming convention until recently, when I spoke to my dad and learned he'd picked up a cat in his travels which he had named Reb. This stands for Rich, Ellen and Barbara, the three family members nearest to him. He wasn't around when my mom got Tess, and it was over 25 years ago so I don't think he consciously remembers the little cat and the story behind her name.
Both sides of my nuclear fallout family have adopted pets and given them acronym names based on people they know.
I don't quite understand it, myself, but there you go.
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We left the extra S on for savings.
I thought it was a unique naming convention until recently, when I spoke to my dad and learned he'd picked up a cat in his travels which he had named Reb. This stands for Rich, Ellen and Barbara, the three family members nearest to him. He wasn't around when my mom got Tess, and it was over 25 years ago so I don't think he consciously remembers the little cat and the story behind her name.
Both sides of my nuclear fallout family have adopted pets and given them acronym names based on people they know.
I don't quite understand it, myself, but there you go.