Parents of a boy in Jåmtland, Sweden, have been told they cannot name their son Q. The court had ruled that the name failed to satisfy basic linguistic requirements. In their appeal, the parents argued that their son had been called Q since he was born and that he responds to the name. But the appeals court didn’t buy the parents’ argument, finding that Q is a letter of the alphabet which is not typically used as a first name.

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