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PoptartsNinja posted:Malachai. Ok, pretty rare name and it's old enough that it might wrap back around onto the top of the cool spectrum. Not a big deal, nothing out of the ordinar-- To me that looks like someone couldn't decide between Malik and Kanye.
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I was reading some dumb Buzzfeed list and one of the contributors was named Yzabeaux. I know Isabeau(x? are there two of you?) is a real name, but yikes...
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sweeperbravo posted:I met a 9 year old with the name, but pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable. The spelling was I think slightly different but not enough to suggest that the pronunciation would be that. Like Ma-LACK-ee?
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VorpalBunny posted:Like Ma-LACK-ee? Yeah. But is that a valid pronunciation somewhere else and I'm just being culturally uneducated?
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VorpalBunny posted:Like Ma-LACK-ee? Sounds like some kind of old-timey candy.
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Whiper Crow Jane posted:Spotted in a thrift shop: FAQ: Is that your real name? “His old first name, Mark, meant ‘the warrior’; we were anti-war. My old first name, Ellen, meant ‘the Queen’; we were anti-authoritarian. It was the ’60′s; we didn’t agree with much. He came up with the new first names for us: Crispin, for him, meaning ‘the curly-headed one’; Crescent, for me, meaning ‘the growing’ (once erroneously reported in a newspaper interview as meaning ‘the growth’). “The wedding drew nearer. We still hadn’t come up with a new last name. One day, after trying and discarding several possibilities, I said, ‘Maybe we’re taking ourselves too seriously, maybe we should pick something completely frivolous.’ He said, ‘Like what?’ I said, ‘Oh, um, uh, like Dragonwagon.’ http://dragonwagon.com/is-that-your-real-name/ Male Tiers has a new favorite as of 20:44 on Apr 29, 2015 |
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Dragonwagon sits in the old gum tree, selling all the cookbooks she can see
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sweeperbravo posted:Dragonwagon sits in the old gum tree, selling all the cookbooks she can see This is fantastic.
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Male Tears posted:Whiper Ellen is a form of Helen and means "light". Crescent Dragonwagon does terrible research.
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Alternatively, it's derived (through several steps over hundreds of years) from Eleanor, from the queen of France, Eleanor of Aquitaine. That's probably what she was going off of. There's a lot of bullshit out there about names, though. I've read in different sources over the years that my name means either Spear Warrior, Gentleman, Old Man or, most recently, may be derived from "gentleness."
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Lotish posted:There's a lot of bullshit out there about names, though. I've read in different sources over the years that my name means either Spear Warrior, Gentleman, Old Man or, most recently, may be derived from "gentleness." I have an uncle named Paul, which apparently according to my baby names book means "small." His last name, in another language, also means "small." The dude is the size of a doorway. Always thought that was funny.
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sweeperbravo posted:I have an uncle named Paul, which apparently according to my baby names book means "small." His last name, in another language, also means "small." The dude is the size of a doorway. Always thought that was funny. Paul means "small" in an emotional way, more like meekness or modesty instead of size, if I recall correctly.
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Vanderdeath posted:Paul means "small" in an emotional way, more like meekness or modesty instead of size, if I recall correctly. He definitely does not fit that description either. Thank you for the info, though!
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Crow Jane posted:Spotted in a thrift shop: This sounds like a sex act.
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bringmyfishback posted:This sounds like a sex act. "Passionate Vegetarian" or "Crescent Dragonwagon?"
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FELD1 posted:"Passionate Vegetarian" or "Crescent Dragonwagon?" Yes.
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Velveta Golightly Real person, not joking. Velveta Golightly-Howell I'm not sure what you have to do to your parents to get the double whammy of being named for processed cheese and a prescription grade bowel cleanser.
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razorrozar posted:Yes. Precisely. CommanderApaul posted:Velveta Golightly "I'm gonna name my baby after my two favorite things: hookers and plastic cheese."
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Working in any sort of healthcare field gives you access to the weirdest friggin' names ever. Got yelled at by an older lady in her 60's because I pronounced her name wrong. Her name was Rene. I pronounced it "Ren-nay", which is a fairly normal way to say it. (Not sure about other parts of the states but it's certainly pronounced that way in the North East) She proceeds to scowl, roll her eyes and huff before yelling "IT'S RENE." .."Reen". We also have a regular named "Prince". ...My grandma's dog is named "Prince". For some reason we also get a few names with apostrophes in them. Usually kids 13 and under. Then the parents get angry with you when you ask them how to spell the name. I'm sorry you named your kid something loving retarded.
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CommanderApaul posted:Velveta Golightly It could be Velvet-a, which isn't much better but it's at least not cheese.
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FELD1 posted:"Passionate Vegetarian" or "Crescent Dragonwagon?" The Crescent Dragonwagon is a sort of upside-down doggy style and there is a food cart involved somehow, but exactly how you incorporate the food cart is up to you and will vary from couple to couple
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Barely even shat out of her!
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Took my two year old to the park today. He was being a little crap and refused to play on the swings or slides so we just walked around the playground. A little kid probably about his age toddles over and my son immediately goes over to him and proceeds to stand RIGHT IN FRONT of this child with this big, goofy smile on his face. He's a lil' creep but he's young enough that it's funny and not that odd. The two are just standing there grinning at one another which is pretty cute. The kid's mom walks over and exchange some typical Mom pleasantries before returning our attention to the kids again. Me: "Dom, say hi! Say 'Hi, I'm Dommy'!" Kid's Mom: "Aw..say hi, Barrett." ....Pronounced "Bear-it". What the gently caress, how do you even spell that? Bearit? Berrett? Barret?
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It's spelled Barret on the Calder Trophy.
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TINY T-REX ARMS posted:Took my two year old to the park today. He was being a little crap and refused to play on the swings or slides so we just walked around the playground. A little kid probably about his age toddles over and my son immediately goes over to him and proceeds to stand RIGHT IN FRONT of this child with this big, goofy smile on his face. He's a lil' creep but he's young enough that it's funny and not that odd. "Bear-it" is how I'd pronounce "Barrett" ... am I missing something? Are you in the UK?
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TINY T-REX ARMS posted:....Pronounced "Bear-it". What the gently caress, how do you even spell that? Bearit? Berrett? Barret? It's a rather normal name here in California. I went to high school with a dude named Barrett back in the 90s. Here are a few recent names we came across. I thought of this thread: GIRLS: Brooklyn-Bella Aeslin Rylan Ellery Ellyse Millen Navy Cailey Abra Alessia BOYS: Narian Kylin Curren Caspian Ryder Jaydon Edgeryn <---How do you even pronounce this?! Caz Brennan Tosh Jett Abrahma Jackson Dax Brycen Kaleb Brayden Jaxon
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I hope some kid didn't actually get named after Daniel Tosh, but of the boys names on that list Jackson, Ryder, Kaleb (despite the spelling) and Dax shouldn't raise any eyebrows imo.
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jojoinnit posted:I hope some kid didn't actually get named after Daniel Tosh, but of the boys names on that list Jackson, Ryder, Kaleb (despite the spelling) and Dax shouldn't raise any eyebrows imo. Could be Peter Tosh to be fair.
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I'm in the US, I have neeever heard that name before in my life though. Never even seen it on any of the million baby naming websites/books I read while I was trying to figure out a name for my own son. Maybe it's just not common in the North East?
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TINY T-REX ARMS posted:I'm in the US, I have neeever heard that name before in my life though. Never even seen it on any of the million baby naming websites/books I read while I was trying to figure out a name for my own son. Maybe it's just not common in the North East? You never played FFVII.
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razorrozar posted:You never played FFVII. Seriously just asked my boyfriend about the name and he immediately made a reference to that game. Mystery solved?
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VorpalBunny posted:Edgeryn <---How do you even pronounce this?! 
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razorrozar posted:You never played FFVII. Neither have I, but I'm familiar with the name. It's a common enough surname, and surnames-as-given-names is a thing, especially in the south.
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pookel posted:"Bear-it" is how I'd pronounce "Barrett" ... am I missing something? Are you in the UK? Yeah that's probably just an accent thing. I'd pronounce it to rhyme with "carrot." Some people just shape the "a" sound differently. The whole "marry, merry, Mary" thing (some people pronounce them all the same, some two are the same but one is different, some each sounds different).
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Yeah, bear-it, carrot, Mary, merry, marry, bury, wary, dairy, berry, very, Harry, hairy, chair, dare, pear, parent, apparent, parrot .... these are all identical "air" sounds to me. I can try to pronounce them differently, but it just sounds like I'm faking an accent if I do.
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pookel posted:Yeah, bear-it, carrot, Mary, merry, marry, bury, wary, dairy, berry, very, Harry, hairy, chair, dare, pear, parent, apparent, parrot .... these are all identical "air" sounds to me. I can try to pronounce them differently, but it just sounds like I'm faking an accent if I do. This stuff is fascinating to me  Whereabouts are you from? I'm in NJ, and I have the opposite situation- I can pronounce all of those the same but I feel like I'm pretending to be this lady.
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Oklahoma, although I don't have a pronounced accent, and I'm embarrassed to admit that while that lady sounds fairly wacky, that's just because of the pitch of her voice and what she's saying. Her actual accent doesn't seem odd to me. I live in North Dakota now, so my accent's been migrating.
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pookel posted:Oklahoma, although I don't have a pronounced accent, and I'm embarrassed to admit that while that lady sounds fairly wacky, that's just because of the pitch of her voice and what she's saying. Her actual accent doesn't seem odd to me. For what it's worth, I was just picking her to illustrate the example, not to make fun of how she sounds 
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