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Today I processed paperwork for someone with the name La-a. I got really excited when I saw it. But it turns out that her name is Laņa (pronounced Lana; her parents were creative spellers), and our system replaces characters it can't read with a dash.
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Encountered someone with the last name Beanblossom the other day. It's my new favorite fart euphemism.
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Oct 20, 2013 09:56
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Wintermutant posted:While reading about Ned Kelly, I found that one of his first victims was named Ah Fook, which is pretty much the best name ever. Ha that is awesome. Even better if you read it in a scottish accent.
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Oct 20, 2013 10:07
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Istari posted:her name is Laņa (pronounced Lana; her parents were creative spellers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyQvjKqXA0Y&t=20s
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Oct 20, 2013 14:58
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Oct 21, 2013 02:05
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Say Nothing, you're the best. Every one of the ones you've posted is great.
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Oct 21, 2013 02:17
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Thanks. For some reason, I seem to have collected a whole bunch of them. 
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Oct 21, 2013 02:28
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The student body president my senior year of high school was named Ja'Me'S, pronounced "Jamie S" I had seen her name all over campaign signs when she was running and was completely clueless as to how it was pronounced. The only way I found out was when she won and her name was announced over the intercom. Also, when I was in college I had a job delivering flowers, and I would deliver to the maternity ward of the local hospital quite a bit. As you can imagine, it was a nonstop parade of lovely special snowflake baby names, but one that sticks out the most was "Airycka" (pronounced Erica, of course.) Jim the Nickel has a new favorite as of 04:22 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Oct 21, 2013 04:11
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Hope Diamond (PRONOUNCED DYE-A-MAND as she would angrily inform you), and Harold Balls (Harry Balls). Balls is a horrible last name. And, Crystal Pitcher, and Starbuck Goes (she was a huge bitch but I was actually pretty envious of the name).
Galliope has a new favorite as of 04:30 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Oct 21, 2013 04:26
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I met two girls named Apple and one named Koala last week. At least they have the "my parents are immigrants and don't use my English name anyway" excuse, Airycka is abominable.
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Oct 21, 2013 04:39
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Jim the Nickel posted:Also, when I was in college I had a job delivering flowers, and I would deliver to the maternity ward of the local hospital quite a bit. As you can imagine, it was a nonstop parade of lovely special snowflake baby names, but one that sticks out the most was "Airycka" (pronounced Erica, of course.) 
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Oct 21, 2013 04:42
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That's a wrecka alright.
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Oct 21, 2013 13:36
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I met a Romulus last week. I told him I liked his name and he said "yeah I get that a lot".
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Oct 21, 2013 13:39
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Yeah, being named after the mythical founder of Rome is a lot loving cooler than being named literally anything on this list of distinctly Mormon and incredibly bizarre names. Seriously, Mormons name their kids the strangest goddamned things. Aquanetta? Really?
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Oct 21, 2013 13:47
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Well I hope he was named after the co-founder of Rome, and not a planet from Star Trek (named after those same people)
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Oct 21, 2013 15:15
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Yeah, being named after the mythical founder of Rome is a lot loving cooler than being named literally anything on this list of distinctly Mormon and incredibly bizarre names. "Cashley" Poor "Kneel" "WaDeen, WaDrew," This sounds like a Pokemon and its evolved form. "Enzt (pronounce each letter)." I don't get it. Is it supposed to sound like "eatin' ziti?" Ee-YEN-zee-tee? If there's a joke, it's over my head.
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Oct 21, 2013 15:27
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In high school I knew a pair of sisters named Tinkerbell and Chinagirl. To be fair their parents were foreign and they chose what they thought were American names for their daughters.
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Oct 21, 2013 15:59
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Like the poor fellow so enamoured with the sea that he had to be talked into Seymour because Sea Man did unexpected things in English?
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Oct 21, 2013 17:18
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sweeperbravo posted:"Cashley" This one stood out to me too. Cashley sounds baller as gently caress. For my contribution theres a guy in a couple of my classes named Charlemagne. He doesn't go by Charles for short and gets upset if you mispronounce it.
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Oct 21, 2013 19:04
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Noticed at my local SaveMart yesterday: Timaree and Ellorie (both female) and Amadeus.
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Oct 21, 2013 19:28
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Rare Collectable posted:For my contribution theres a guy in a couple of my classes named Charlemagne. He doesn't go by Charles for short and gets upset if you mispronounce it.
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Oct 21, 2013 20:36
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I've served quite a few people with unusual surnames (I don't usually record the first names): Mr Honeyman Mr Thorndick Mr Bigstaff Mr Apinis (happiness  )I had a piano teacher called Mrs Amanda Beat once (misses a beat) and my sister has a friend called Xack (pronounced like 'Zach').
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Oct 21, 2013 20:52
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Who the hell has completed fourth grade and manages to mispronounce Charlemagne? I could maybe understand misspelling it, but that's just depressing. Where do you go to school that they cover Charlemagne by fourth grade? I went to school in Illinois and he didn't come up, then I moved to Texas and most of the people I teach didn't hear about him until probably high school if that?
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Oct 21, 2013 21:15
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Just encountered a little girl named Aniston. Parents loved "Friends" at little too much, I guess?
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Oct 21, 2013 21:23
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Who the hell has completed fourth grade and manages to mispronounce Charlemagne? I could maybe understand misspelling it, but that's just depressing. I don't know about you but when I read this post, I immediately thought of Zapp Brannigan saying something like 'Char-la-maggin'. It's a name that goes well with cham-paggin.
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Oct 21, 2013 21:30
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Who the hell has completed fourth grade and manages to mispronounce Charlemagne? I could maybe understand misspelling it, but that's just depressing. It was actually a teacher, she's ESL And pronounced it with a hard ch while butchering the rest into something like charle-mac. Probably didn't know it was French.
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Oct 21, 2013 22:38
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nyquil hangover posted:I met a Romulus last week. I told him I liked his name and he said "yeah I get that a lot". Old Roman names are baller as gently caress.
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Oct 21, 2013 23:42
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Sounds like a fun guy.
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Oct 22, 2013 01:56
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I teach some class in an elementary class room, and saw one of the labels as Getsumani, which just turns into "Get some money" in my head.
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Oct 22, 2013 03:05
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I would love to see some more class rosters of kids in English classes in Asian countries. You know, when kids choose their English name of Altria, Sweater, Nursy, Five, Click...
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Oct 22, 2013 03:26
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This is banal by this thread's standards but it made me laugh. I know through my job that in a single nursing home in Florida are two Richard Johnsons.
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Oct 22, 2013 06:40
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Mescal posted:I would love to see some more class rosters of kids in English classes in Asian countries. You know, when kids choose their English name of Altria, Sweater, Nursy, Five, Click... One of my students (too old for English names now) went by Car last year.
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Oct 22, 2013 08:48
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Haha.
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Oct 22, 2013 08:58
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bringmyfishback posted:One of my students (too old for English names now) went by Car last year. I had a dude called 'Magic' which I thought was incredible until I realised it was probably because of the basketball player. Otherwise my favourite was 'Eagle' and a girl calling herself 'Pango' for some reason.
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Oct 22, 2013 09:09
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Say Nothing posted:Haha. He turns out to be a 5 foot weedy guy with an overbite and a lisp.
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Oct 22, 2013 13:24
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Lotish posted:Where do you go to school that they cover Charlemagne by fourth grade? I went to school in Illinois and he didn't come up, then I moved to Texas and most of the people I teach didn't hear about him until probably high school if that?
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Oct 22, 2013 16:13
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Douche Wolf 89 posted:I met two girls named Apple and one named Koala last week. At least they have the "my parents are immigrants and don't use my English name anyway" excuse, Airycka is abominable. I teach Business English majors at a Chinese University. Due to the difficulty among Westerners of pronouncing Mandarin correctly, the students are required to adopt English names. Some of the better names that I have encountered: Flower (male) Bangbang D-7 Flying Easy (female) Nasin (supposed to be Nathan, but he transcribed his th-error) Alone Thank heaven, thank earth Pig (female) Mushroom Breeze The gamut of stripper names: (Mercedes, Lexus, Diamond, Cherry) Gooder Chink I can't wait for the day when I meet a rail thin Chinese girl who calls herself "Badonkadonk."
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Oct 22, 2013 16:47
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I would feel awful if I called someone chink all day.
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Oct 22, 2013 17:16
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Spiderjelly posted:Due to the difficulty among Westerners of pronouncing Mandarin correctly, the students are required to adopt English names. I can't be the only one who thinks this is nuts. You can learn pinyin in an afternoon; is the problem the Western teachers or the ones these students will eventually meet in a professional capacity?
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Still reading old muster rolls; today I met Hans Heinrich Haubt from Halberstadt.
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