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meiram posted:Watching Toddlers & Tiaras because I'm a horrible person, and one of the girls in this particular episode is named Saryniti. Pronounced Serenity. Her mother is Ca'Trina. That show (that I totally never watch honest) is a goldmine of dreadful names and awful spellings. Camari (named because mom had calamari cravings) Allessondra Alyce Saundra Aniston Ash Lynn BreAnne Kragen Sparkal Kailia Kaleigha Maverick (a pageant boy) Story Marleigh Makynli Daylee
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Well, Lynn is a place name (King's Lynn) so I think Ash Lynn is kind of cute/sensible. Maverick is doable too. "Hey Mav, has that spreadsheet been updated yet?"
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Feb 4, 2013 01:08
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It's definitely not as bad as some, but it makes me think of a giant ash dump.
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treiz01 posted:Would you name your child Odo or Garak, just because they are cool Star Trek characters?
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Feb 4, 2013 01:25
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Shithouse Dave posted:It's definitely not as bad as some, but it makes me think of a giant ash dump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisling_(given_name)
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Shithouse Dave posted:That show (that I totally never watch honest) is a goldmine of dreadful names and awful spellings. You forgot to mention that Sparkal's last name is Queenz, and her mother is Harmonee or something similar. And Alycesaundra's name made me bite my lip when I saw it. treiz01 posted:Would you name your child Odo or Garak, just because they are cool Star Trek characters? Kahless is going to have a lifetime of people thinking his name is weird and having to explain that his namesake is a minor character in a fictional universe. Maybe he'll roam from town to town, Bat'leth strapped to his back, searching for the mother who gave him that awful name. Why not just name your kid Bat'leth; that would be way awesomer. But if you're going to name your kid after any DS9 character, for gently caress's sake, name it Gul Dukat.
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Feb 4, 2013 01:38
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:It's actually an Irish women's name, just almost nobody spells it the way it's spelled in Gaelic, because Gaelic looks like gibberish. Oh, I know, I've seen the Gaelic spelling around. Which is another reason the two-word spelling annoys me. It's a petty and irrational annoyance though. Even worse was that another of the toddlers has a first name that mashes my RL first and last names together. E: for below: Yeah, that's what makes it petty and irrational on my part. I also hate the way people just bung "Lynn" onto the ends of names. Obvs that doesn't really apply to Ashlynn, but Kortlynn, CoryLynn, Emmalynn, Sugarlynn and all the other Lynns except Caitlins and plain Lynnes can just Lynn off. Shithouse Dave has a new favorite as of 01:58 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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Feb 4, 2013 01:43
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Shithouse Dave posted:Oh, I know, I've seen the Gaelic spelling around. Which is another reason the two-word spelling annoys me. It's a petty and irrational annoyance though.
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Feb 4, 2013 01:49
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But everyone I've ever known named Aisling pronounced it "ash-ling," with an audible g  EDIT: All the Aislings I've known were from Canada, if that makes a difference.
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bringmyfishback posted:But everyone I've ever known named Aisling pronounced it "ash-ling," with an audible g
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Feb 4, 2013 02:05
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:That's probably because they weren't familiar with Irish Gaelic orthography. They see a "g" and say "ling." To be fair, I never got better than a C in my Gaelic class. Anyone who didn't grow up speaking it and can do so fluently deserves a medal. or a mBedal.
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Feb 4, 2013 02:11
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I went to high school with an Aoife, and she pronounced it correctly. Why is there no crying-harp-over-an-irish-flag :ireland: emoticon?  The worst variation on "Aisling" is when it's pronounced "ayz-ling". 
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Feb 4, 2013 02:12
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I went to high school with an Aoife, and she pronounced it correctly. Why is there no crying-harp-over-an-irish-flag :ireland: emoticon? 
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Feb 4, 2013 02:26
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I want to say it's "Wii-fey", but I may be misremembering it. I knew an American girl (like fifth-gen Irish or something) named it. I know a couple who gave their children Japanese names. From anime. Neither of them are Japanese.
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During my retail days I had to look someone up in the rewards system through their phone number. I couldn't pronounce the last name that came up and the first name was Dong. It was a hard choice between trying to pronounce something I didn't know how to and saying Dong tittering like a manchild.
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Feb 4, 2013 03:18
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:How do you pronounce that? Gaelic spelling Roughly "ee-fah" IIRC.
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Carbon Thief posted:Roughly "ee-fah" IIRC. This is right. Goidelic languages
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Bertrand Hustle posted:This is right. Goidelic languages A SILENT H I confronted her about this and she said that the H is not silent, rather it indicates that the M immediately preceding it is pronounced like a W. Thanks.
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Feb 4, 2013 07:00
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HEGEL SMOKE A J posted:The original spelling of my mom's last name has a silent H. That's called lenition and Irish is loving nasty with it. It crosses word boundaries. I love Irish but I'd be a liar if I said it didn't make my brain hurt. How about some awful name changes made by adults, instead of kids who have had bad names inflicted on them by idiot parents? I did some googling and found a registered sex offender in Indiana named Tyrannosaurus Rex, and a small-time drug offender who changed his name to Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop. And who can forget In the "man I don't even know" department, there's makeup artist Yolanda Squatpump.
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Feb 4, 2013 08:39
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I went to high school with an Aoife, and she pronounced it correctly. Why is there no crying-harp-over-an-irish-flag :ireland: emoticon? The evil orthographic plan of the entire Irish nation to make the English look dim came to fruition that day.
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jojoinnit posted:Was talking about this with some friends. One person had a professor named Dick Hyman who refused to go by Richard, which reminded me that the head of my course was also a Richard who insisted on going by Dick, and not just Dick but Dr Dick. Had it on his mug. To be fair, I think some people's diminutives are their legal names. I have a cousin whose legal given name is Andy, because (according to my aunt) "we were never going to call him Andrew anyway." I always wondered what would happen if he tried to actually launch a professional career, although I think he's trying to be a professional dirt biker or something, so I guess it's a moot point. The White Dragon posted:Well y'know flip side of Masa and Koji is that their surname, too, was super white and super common, but Masa was like "yeah dude I'm one sixteenth Japanese or something, I dunno." If you just went by my surname, you'd probably assume I'd look like and be related to major players in the Third Reich. Last names are slippery bastards. Something like this happened with my dad's family, which has a Euro surname but some fairly recent Puerto Rican ancestry. My great-great grandfather was named Enrique, and the male descendents since have all had Enrique as a middle name, even though the bloodline has been steadily whitening for generations. If I ever have a son, I'm tempted to revive the tradition, but I'm Hitler-Youth white and worry that it would come off excessively ludicrous.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I went to high school with an Aoife, and she pronounced it correctly. Why is there no crying-harp-over-an-irish-flag :ireland: emoticon? The most unusual Gaelic spelling I've encountered (at least in terms of the distance between it's spelling and pronunciation) has to be Caoimhe, which is pronounced "Kiva" or "Kifa". I remember there was a contestant on Britain's Got Talet whose name was Eoghan (pronounced "Owen") Quigg.
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Feb 4, 2013 13:07
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Runcible Cat posted:Friend of mine who used to work in the benefits department swore blind she had to deal with someone who'd called her child Siobhan and pronounced it See-ob-han. So, uh ... is it pronounced "Shawn"?
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Imperialist Dog posted:So, uh ... is it pronounced "Shawn"? Sha-vawn.
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Gaelic names are amazing. I once met someone called Aoibheann, pronounced Ay-veen. 
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Was looking through the weekend police log in my local paper and saw that Jasmine Kielbasa was arrested for Meth possesion.
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My mother is a doctor; a few years ago, when she was doing a shift in the ER, she had a metalhead as a patient. He introduced his two sons, Iron and Maiden. I'm serious.
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Huh. You'd expect him to call them "Bruce Dickonson" and "Eddie the Head" or something, wouldn't you?
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Metal Loaf posted:Huh. You'd expect him to call them "Bruce Dickonson" and "Eddie the Head" or something, wouldn't you? Or "Ronnie" and "Dio". Hell anything but naming your male child "Maiden" (to clarify, this was in a Latin American country, so I guess he wasn't fully aware of the fact that he was calling his child a lady). Also, there's the name as Usnavy. Someone saw a US battle ship and put that one together. This is an image that has been online for a while, so no need to censor it (also, not mine): 
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I'm a fan of Batman bin Suparman. Apparently so is this guy, who's done a lot of thinking about the name.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I'm a fan of Batman bin Suparman. I raise you this , including names such as 
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I know a lovely young Korean man whose name is Q. That is the name he chose upon arriving in this country, so the story goes. I have also heard rumor that the youngest member of his host family taught him English wrong, because he thought it would be funny. He also types the way he speaks, which is very excitedly and unpredictable.
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Courtesy of the Social Security Death Index: Uranus Sparks Jezebel P. Fish Purity C. Pitts Rosemary Baby Benavides Ocean Hunter Hippo Manis
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A coworker of my friend named his children Cillian and Blaise, which are both real names, but were bestowed upon the children because of his love of death metal (killing I guess?) and weed (blaze). There are also several people in my local phone book with the last names Gotobed and Outhouse. Another local favourite of mine is a girl I know through friends whose name is Tahsis. Also my sister's ex-husband just had a baby and named him Riker. As in Commander Will Riker. I used to work with a girl whose name is Bekime (pronounced "buh-kee-muh") which is apparently Albanian but definitely raises some eyebrows, and a trio of sisters named Annalee, Rizalee, and Noralee. Rizalee was named after Phillipine hero José Rizal. There are so many weird names in this town. e: I forgot the best ones: a friend of friends whose given names are Jux Vaszilia Madison, confirmed by a picture of his driver's license on Facebook, and a former coworker whose legal first name is Brother Glenn. All on Black has a new favorite as of 01:21 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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Antivehicular posted:To be fair, I think some people's diminutives are their legal names. I have a cousin whose legal given name is Andy, because (according to my aunt) "we were never going to call him Andrew anyway." I always wondered what would happen if he tried to actually launch a professional career, although I think he's trying to be a professional dirt biker or something, so I guess it's a moot point. My father's legal name is Billy. I believe the reasoning his parents used was something like "William would be too hard for people to remember."
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DarkHamsterlord posted:My father's legal name is Billy. I believe the reasoning his parents used was something like "William would be too hard for people to remember." I have an uncle whose full name is Randy, and my grandparents were once told by an acquaintance that they "can't do that because it has to be short for something." Those people would explode if they saw this thread.
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There were two girls I knew from high school whose names are Chanda Leer and Penny Nichols. I also have a neighbor named Harry Balzhiser (Yes...it's pronounced ball-sizer.).
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Puneet is (as far as I know) a fairly common Indian name. Pronounced Pooh-neet. Dikshit is a common last name. Pronounced Dick poo poo. One of my roommates in college interned at NASA Ames Research Center with this poor guy: http://in.linkedin.com/in/pdixit Apparently Dixit is an alternate pidginized version of Dikshit. He definitely answered his phone and introduced himself as "poohneet dickshit" which she said made it very difficult to keep a straight face the first few times. There's a large number of other Puneet Dickshits, Puneet Dikshits, and Punit Dikshits on linkedin as well. I sometimes wonder what it means in Hindi.
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kastein posted:Puneet is (as far as I know) a fairly common Indian name. Pronounced I sometimes wonder what it means in Hindi. Wonder no more. From Wikipedia: quote:Dikshit or Dikshitar (Hindi: दीक्षित) is a Hindu family name. The word is an adjective form of the Sanskrit word diksha, meaning religious initiations. Dikshit in Sanskrit derives itself as a person or priest involved in such initiations or a scholar in religious scriptures, and literally translates as "one who has received initiation or one who is initiated".
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On the topic of Gaelic names I knew a Tadgh. Can't remember how to pronounce it though as he went by a nickname.
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