<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/01bee079-1b0e-47d0-930d-ae775aa91986/50D636B1-C492-4069-AAE0-68686BD758CF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2009/01/22/parents-seek-to-name-boy-q/" href="http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2009/01/22/parents-seek-to-name-boy-q/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.app.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2009/01/22/parents-seek-to-name-boy-q/"><DIV class="title"> <H2><A title="Permanent Link to Parents seek to name son ‘Q’" rel="bookmark" href="http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2009/01/22/parents-seek-to-name-boy-q/">Parents seek to name son ‘Q’</A></H2> <H5>January 22, 2009 • 2:54 pm</H5> <H5>By <A href="http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/author/dfasanella/">Diana Fasanella</A></H5> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2009/01/22/parents-seek-to-name-boy-q/"><P>A Swedish appeals court has ruled that the parents of a young boy cannot legally name him the letter Q.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2009/01/22/parents-seek-to-name-boy-q/"><P>Kammarratten appeals court handed down the ruling after an unidentified couple asked that their son’s name officially be Q because they had been calling him that since he was born.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2009/01/22/parents-seek-to-name-boy-q/"><P>The parents of the boy in northwestern Sweden’s Jamtland province told the court that the boy, whose age was not released, responds to Q and everyone knows him as that, <A href="http://www.upi.com/">UPI</A> reported.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2009/01/22/parents-seek-to-name-boy-q/"><P>They argued that since this is what they consider his name, what he considers himself and what he is known as, he should be allowed to keep Q as his name.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2009/01/22/parents-seek-to-name-boy-q/"><P>Lansratten administrative court also had rejected the argument saying the name failed to satisfy basic linguistic requirements. The higher court said Q is a letter of the alphabet not typically used as a first name.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2009/01/22/parents-seek-to-name-boy-q/"><P>Cue, maybe?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/50D636B1-C492-4069-AAE0-68686BD758CF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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