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Lady Disdain posted:I once came across a Hiawatha in the wild. A white Australian woman. That's a definite oof.
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I found out last week that New York has a Brooklyn-based assembly member with the first name Rodneyse.
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Found John Hamm's Transylvanian cousin, John Hamula.
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William Wilson.
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Best names to cross my desk this week: Queenie Attila Willy Wang
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I went to the aquarium today and here are some actual fish species that exist: Lookdown Doctorfish Sergeant Major French Grunt Slippery Dick
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I love lookdowns, they're my favorite. Time to namedump. First names: Tangelena Hope-Divine Aceilyne Dacoda Diangela Eyeris Pholsom Last names: Big Boy Grzyb Smuts Full names: Holly Bramble Dr. Brownie Flesche (I love this one) Nimrod Chapel III Candy Rice Payton Sport Starr Loveall Dawn West Tabitha Runner Place: No More Victims Road (this is a prison address)
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Samovar posted:That's a definite oof. Extremely on brand for Australia, though.
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100%. There is exactly 1 (one) native American person in my town, and I often wonder if they've met. I came across paperwork today for someone whose name is 2 letters away from Rocco Siffredi.
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Leocadia posted:Attila IIRC this is actually a fairly common name in Hungary, though
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Pope Hilarius II posted:IIRC this is actually a fairly common name in Hungary, though Oh, definitely! His last name is a pretty common Hungarian name. It's just a strange one to come across in Australia
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These are all people I've met in person: Excedrin White Al Dente Sandy Sheets Peter Bender Zeynep Kitson
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Zeynep is a common Turkish name. I got a visceral shiver of discomfort, and an urge to do a load of washing, when I read Sandy Sheets. I wonder if she has the same problem.
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Bippie Mishap posted:Excedrin White That should be a paint color.
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A place I drove by today in this apparently real country that I live in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskdaleside_cum_Ugglebarnby
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I am struggling to even say that.
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A name that perfectly recreates the experience of thinking there would be one more stair on the way down than there actually was
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marshmallow creep posted:I am struggling to even say that. Esk-dale(earnhardt)-side-cum-(sn)uggle-barn-bee It's pronounced exactly as it's spelled, funnily, it just sounds like someone threw a box of british town names down a staircase and then swept the resulting debris into a heap and read it out. It also, technically, makes perfect sense as eskdale is the dale (valley) in which the esk river flows and thus the parish of eskdaleside cum ugglebarnby encompasses the settlements on the sides of eskdale and the village of ugglebarnby which is just called that apparently. A by is an old norse suffix for a village, there are a great many -bys in the area, but I do not know what an ugglebarn is, though the same linguistic holdovers also give us bairn (child) in the modern dialect so perhaps it is the village of very ugly children. OwlFancier has a new favorite as of 22:19 on Sep 7, 2021 |
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marshmallow creep posted:I am struggling to even say that. That's not even in the top 10% of confusing English place name pronunciations.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Last names: That's the Polish word for mushroom! 
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OwlFancier posted:Esk-dale(earnhardt)-side-cum-(sn)uggle-barn-bee In modern swedish Ugglebarnby reads perfectly fine as owl child village, with uggla being owl and uggle being the correct form to use in this case. If I would see Ugglebarnby in Sweden I would not think it out of place. Zudgemud has a new favorite as of 06:48 on Sep 8, 2021 |
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Zudgemud posted:In modern swedish Ugglebarnby reads perfectly fine as owl child village, with uggla being owl and uggle being the correct form to use in this case. If I would see Ugglebarnby in Sweden I would not think it out of place. Sounds like it could be a holdover from ye olden days of Anglo-Saxon occupation.
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PureRok posted:Sounds like it could be a holdover from ye olden days of Anglo-Saxon occupation. Surely the vast majority of place names in England are Anglo-Saxon in origin? Danelaw seems more likely to me in this particular case, although you might assume that the language of the Angles (from southern Denmark) would have been similar to that of the later Danish Vikings anyway. I'm actually not sure if they were North or West Germanic.
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Yes it would be the danelaw, it's yorkshire so a lot of the places are a result of scandinavian settlement and a few dialect words still exist that draw from old norse, or whatever particular language they would have been speaking. And there is a greater preponderance of scandi-style names for places in the area compared to further north, west, and south (york itself is the modern form of jorvik) Very pleased to learn what the "uggle" part means though! What a neat name. OwlFancier has a new favorite as of 12:06 on Sep 8, 2021 |
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addarryl, which im pronouncing as adderal sarumon tock siblings akira kennedi reign, asani ali titan, king michael, and peyton ellen emily jiji, with a very polish last name shapier last name: chud
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Some more people who don't need their SSNs anymore. Lee Deathrow Sammy Secession Sledge Clinkscales Sander Slagboom Tribble Dicks Waitie Cobbledick Patricia Pizza Keyser Caution Wootie Martian Robert Speakthunder
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1436431806400765975?s=19 Well, someone with a name like that would say that, wouldn't they
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Winter Stormer posted:Some more people who don't need their SSNs anymore. these two sound like henchmen in a D&D adventure
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Winter Stormer posted:Keyser Caution I'm reading Keyser as Kaiser, and my nazi alarm is going off. Keyser Caution sounds like a name terrible people would call someone who's fastidious about safety, ie. a "safety nazi"
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Lady Disdain posted:I'm reading Keyser as Kaiser, and my nazi alarm is going off. Wow, is this ever a Photoshop Phriday challenge of days past! "Design Nazi safety posters starring Kaiser Caution" lmao.
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Arivia posted:these two sound like henchmen in a D&D adventure 'Slagboom' is Dutch for a barrier of the type you see in e.g. secure parking lots and literally means 'beat-down tree' (cf. think of Afrikaans 'boomslang' which literally means 'tree snake'). I believe Russian imported 'slagboom' as a loanword even. But it's a weird last name regardless.
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Sander Slagboom is one of the Dutchest names I've ever seen.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I am 100% happy about the thread expanding to the names of places, because there are some absolutely bonkers ones. If we're adding place names, I nominate Lancaster County, PA (aka Amish country). It's home to the towns of Intercourse, Paradise, and Blue Ball. (And yes, every other shop in downtown Intercourse has "I ❤ INTERCOURSE" merch for sale)
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Lady Disdain posted:I wonder if the Slagbooms' ancestors were the early equivalent of bouncers. Probably spent all their time protecting the dykes.
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Winter Stormer posted:Wootie Martian These are amazing.  Pope Hilarius II posted:'Slagboom' is Dutch for a barrier of the type you see in e.g. secure parking lots and literally means 'beat-down tree' (cf. think of Afrikaans 'boomslang' which literally means 'tree snake'). I believe Russian imported 'slagboom' as a loanword even. But it's a weird last name regardless. I have a friend with the last name "van den Boom". It's cool, and "boom" is a cool word for tree.
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