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Just saw someone had named their kid Eadweard. I think that takes the cake for weird misspellings of common first names.
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cyberia posted:Just saw someone had named their kid Eadweard. I think that takes the cake for weird misspellings of common first names. This is a perfectly normal Anglo-Saxon name... like, literally, 10th century. Do the folks in question have any particularly strong feelings about "White" people?
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Winter Stormer posted:This is a perfectly normal Anglo-Saxon name... like, literally, 10th century. Do the folks in question have any particularly strong feelings about "White" people? I don't know, unfortunately. The name was just on an application form I was processing.
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Aug 30, 2016 04:21
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Some kid who works at the grocery store is named Bridger.
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Winter Stormer posted:This is a perfectly normal Anglo-Saxon name... like, literally, 10th century. Do the folks in question have any particularly strong feelings about "White" people? It could also be that they're from San Francisco or Kingston-upon-Thames and therefore huge fans of the father of the moving image, Eadweard Muybridge.
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ookiimarukochan posted:It could also be that they're from San Francisco or Kingston-upon-Thames and therefore huge fans of the father of the moving image, Eadweard Muybridge. Who was named Edward by his parents and changed it for some reason.
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stubblyhead posted:Some kid who works at the grocery store is named Bridger. Either they're a huge fan of noted early mountain man Jim Bridger, or their parents were big undersea-sci-fi geeks.  I loving love seaQuest and I will fight about it
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Aug 30, 2016 15:55
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There are a few interesting names on my dorm floor at school. Kyele (pronounced like Kyle, I've never seen it spelt like that), En, Sundance and Atlas. Only one of these is an international student.
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Aug 31, 2016 15:03
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Does Sundance have siblings named Butch and/or Cassidy?
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Aug 31, 2016 22:42
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Who was named Edward by his parents and changed it for some reason. Probably because he was weard.
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Aug 31, 2016 23:27
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stubblyhead posted:Does Sundance have siblings named Butch and/or Cassidy? Nah but he DOES go by Sunny. So there's that.
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Sep 1, 2016 05:04
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Today I worked with a little girl named Timberland. I didn't ask her to spell it, so it might have been Timbaland...
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Sep 1, 2016 06:52
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New year, new English names: Fay Jerry Lucky Faker Jim Leo Momo (Although, to be fair, she said she wanted her English name to be "Peach" but knew it would sound weird in English, so she chose the Japanese word/name [?]) Tammy E Anch I asked Anch if I was pronouncing his name correctly and he said he didn't know. Yikes.
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Sep 1, 2016 07:46
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Anch as in anchor, or anchovy?
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stubblyhead posted:Anch as in anchor, or anchovy? I said it as in "anchovy"; we've told him to change it to a real name and if he doesn't comply, then he'll be Anchovy for the rest of year. NOTE: The English names rule is not my rule, but it is really helpful as one of our students' Chinese name means "gently caress" if you get the tones wrong. EDIT: E has become Eeason. Not a typo. Anch apparently rhymes with "conch." I foresee an interesting year! Fleta Mcgurn has a new favorite as of 04:22 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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Sep 2, 2016 03:18
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bringmyfishback posted:New year, new English names: Faker is a South Korean professional League of Legends player.
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bringmyfishback posted:
Cao or gan?
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What does updating the spelling to Austain improve over the original?
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TheKennedys posted:Either they're a huge fan of noted early mountain man Jim Bridger, or their parents were big undersea-sci-fi geeks. Maybe they just really liked to play Lemmings. Does he have siblings called Blocker and Digger?
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Lotish posted:What does updating the spelling to Austain improve over the original? The chances of getting nicknamed Shitstain.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Cao or gan? Cao.
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stubblyhead posted:Drew Brees, quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, has four children. Their names are Baylen, Bowen, Callen, and Rylen. Megyn Kelly's kids are Yates, Yeardly, and Thatcher
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Sep 3, 2016 20:28
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Yeardly? named after the lady who plays Lisa Simpson?
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I had a customer the other day whos name was Nicola Nichols. Also we've applied for one of our kids to go to the local private school, which reminded me that when I attended there as a kid, the principal was Mrs. Brutus. Thin, severe woman who loving looked the part. She was secretly very chill though.
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bringmyfishback posted:Momo (Although, to be fair, she said she wanted her English name to be "Peach" but knew it would sound weird in English, so she chose the Japanese word/name [?])
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ElwoodCuse posted:Megyn Kelly's kids are Yates, Yeardly, and Thatcher I knew a Thatcher in preschool/kindergarten, all I remember about him besides his full name is that we went swimming in a massive ditch during a rainstorm one time when we were four and our parents got super pissed. He makes youtube videos about the paleo diet now and is apparently a nurse.
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I mean, it's not like there isn't a precedent. 曹操 Cáo Cāo was a famous statesman. There aren't too many with the same falling tone as "gently caress" in my dictionary, which interestingly enough gives me about five different ways to write it. On topic, I've seen the name Daysire somewhere. I can only surmise that it's some kind of variant of Desirée.
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I worked with this Iranian guy back in the Seventies (before Iran got all pissy, when the Shah was our bastard) named Beta. His dad named his first kid Alpha, the second Beta, and his third and last, Omega. Beta was really cool, Iranians back then were known as serious open-shirt, strip-club, gold-chained disco cokey whore-hoppin' party-all-night type dudes. And another guy called Richard "Dick" Poleo. He joked that dick polio is what you caught by loving handicapped people. Heh. He was cool about it. A funny dude. And that guy named Nolen, which everybody misspelled. It was even wrong on his SS card.
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poo poo almost forgot, Tokio Sextwhale, who is a real billionaire African politician and therefore corrupt thieving bastard. Out of Nigeria, I thinx. He attended Madonna and Guy Ritchie's wedding. BFFHD. e/; Sexwhales. Flying airborne sexwhales. Attacking Tokyo as we speak. Kaiju with giant whale dicks fornicating Tokyo. ... poo poo, any producers out there? I already got the script. zimboe has a new favorite as of 09:18 on Sep 4, 2016 |
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Sep 4, 2016 08:15
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Tokyo Sexwale, not "Sextwhale", I'm afraid.
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Sep 4, 2016 12:39
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Someone with the middle name Crustaceans.
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Sep 4, 2016 13:56
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Met a Chinese guy named Merlin at work. He was not particularly wizardly.
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zimboe posted:Sexwhales Mods please change my username to Sexwhale.
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Peter Bonerz. The guy who did (does?) the voice acting for Squidward is Rodger Bumpass
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Merlin Maria he is a dude btw (and yes I know Maria is a common middle name for men in many Catholic countries - that doesn't make it better)
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sweeperbravo posted:Peter Bonerz. It's the z at the end that makes it.
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zimboe posted:poo poo almost forgot, Tokio Sextwhale, who is a real billionaire African politician and therefore corrupt thieving bastard. Out of Nigeria, I thinx Mosima Gabriel Sexwale (pronounced se-khwa-le) is his real name. Tokyo is a nickname someone gave him as a kid because he took karate. He's a South African politician and was an anti-apartheid activist back in those days. Not a billionaire as far as I know. He's had a few controversies, sure, but corrupt thieving bastard is a new one by me. Did you guys see that Dick Assmann died? I can't find the article anymore for some reason.
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Sampling of classmates in my online course: Starlotte Chelbie, who goes by Dru Jaycitee Fylishia Ma Honey Jane Kasslen Hobie Journee All adults.
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Mlle posted:
Spinoff?
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