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Dogfish posted:Just didn't want you to have to go to the effort of looking up what The Beaverton was. Sorry you're so butthurt that I didn't look up someone for a random throw-away comment? Filthiest Alf posted:Working for the post office you see a lot of silly names; Atom Reign Pagan, Barry Brack, Maxx Wang, Trund Quaca, Gay Wasp, Fnu Bambang, Babby A Love. All of these are amazing
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stubblyhead posted:I think Fnu has come up in this thread before. The person probably has only one name, and FNU (first name unknown) is one of the ways that gets dealt with in a society where at least two names are expected. Yep, pretty common in people from places like Central Asia
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Jazz Salmon. With bonus ridiculous local news story: http://m.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/mum-shocked-by-swear-word-on-her-ironing-board/story-29938133-detail/story.html
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Why are so many of those names Harry Potter-adjacent?
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At least the ones with bad first names have useable middle names.
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My best friend linked me to the BabyCenter names forum (where that screenshot is from) as a joke since I'm currently thinking up names for my own baby and they are a rich source of "why do you hate your child?" names. My favourite so far is the woman whose daughters are named Ophelia and Antigone. Names that say "I don't actually like to read, but I like people to think that I do!" She's trying to name number three now, presumably choosing between Electra and Jocasta.
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someone awful. posted:Why are so many of those names Harry Potter-adjacent? It's like a game: How many franchises can you spot? I see Harry Potter, To Kill A Mockingbird, LOTR, Pirates of the Caribbean, and miscellaneous state capitals.
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hyperhazard posted:It's like a game: How many franchises can you spot? I see Harry Potter, To Kill A Mockingbird, LOTR, Pirates of the Caribbean, and miscellaneous state capitals. In this growing age of consufion, many parents are choosing to name their children based on their favorite Jeopardy categories.
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Dogfish posted:My best friend linked me to the BabyCenter names forum (where that screenshot is from) as a joke since I'm currently thinking up names for my own baby and they are a rich source of "why do you hate your child?" names. Calpurnia or Lysistrata!
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Nov 28, 2016 03:23
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Why did they feel the need to spell out the pronunciation of the one normal name on their list?
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cyberia posted:Why did they feel the need to spell out the pronunciation of the one normal name on their list? To make drat sure you know it's Elena with an H in front, instead of Helen with an A on the end
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Winter Stormer posted:To make drat sure you know it's Elena with an H in front, instead of Helen with an A on the end I could definitely see someone naming their kid Helena and then insisting it's pronounced heh-len-AY.
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Memento posted:I could definitely see someone naming their kid Helena and then insisting it's pronounced heh-len-AY. Both are acceptable pronunciations in several different languages at least.
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I've heard HEL-en-ah and heh-LAY-na but never heh-len-AY so I learned something new today. edit: How many ways can we misspell "London?" 
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Dogfish posted:I've heard HEL-en-ah and heh-LAY-na but never heh-len-AY so I learned something new today. Peighton's sister is Anna, middle name Kondah.
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Nov 28, 2016 21:16
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A friend's cousin or something is named Shannondoah.
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stubblyhead posted:A friend's cousin or something is named Shannondoah. shannondoaherty.mpg (it was gay porn)
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stubblyhead posted:A friend's cousin or something is named Shannondoah. Shenandoah?
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stubblyhead posted:A friend's cousin or something is named Shannondoah. Studied a case in law school that featured a woman with the first name Siouxsie. Just. Why.
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Our waitress tonight was named Greer. That's her first name.
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A couple a mutual friend met at university named their son Link.
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sweeperbravo posted:have they even ever been to London Yeah, maybe London ONTARIO oooooooooooooooooooooh On that note, the name "Orillia" has always pissed me off, for some reason. (No, I haven't been there.)
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I know someone named Kayce (pronounced like K.C. or Casey) and I still have to remind myself it's not pronounced "case" because of the spelling.
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A little girl named "Ceili." When I pronounced it "Sealy," she got annoyed. Hey, kid, sorry your folks decided "gently caress the English spelling system as we bestow our child's name"  Kylie ( i may have actually tried "Saily" but point still stands. girl's in for a lifetime of correcting people)
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My guess was a weird spelling of Ceilidh (Kaylee), which is a relatively normal name in Nova Scotia where I'm from, but apparently not. (We have a lot of Gaelic/Irish names like Mairi and Aisling and Niamh floating around). Kylie makes no sense by any metric, though.
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I think the dh at the end would have helped me see it as a Gaelic name and I would have known to pronounce the C as K. And it might atually have been pronounced Kaylie, man this story sucks a lot. Either way I was not going to pronounce that right as-is off the bat.
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If it's pronounced Kaylee it's a new one on me! A lot of Gaelic/Irish names get spelled the traditional way but pronounced as they would be read in English here (like Caitlin being said Kate-lynn or Mairi being said Mary), or of course there are names that are pronounced the traditional way but spelled the English way (Kaylee, Neve), but I've never seen a "creative spelling" based on a Gaelic or Irish name as it's originally spelled.
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