jojoinnit posted:

Yeah I've had that. I mention it's an urban legend but everyone insists that their mum/wife/friend works with someone who actually saw it, this one was definitely real.

redmercer posted:

On a more positive note, since this is also somewhat the Cool Names Thread, I met Malachi J. Blade when I was in basic training. Good guy.

Quad posted:

My friend is getting induced this weekend, and I have tried for months to talk her out of naming her new boy Raelin. I think that's how its spelled, its from some chick fantasy/softcore novel I guess. Not that a fantasy name is inherently bad, but specifically because "you know his friends are just gonna end up calling him Ray, right?" "WHAT? I hate the name Ray, I will make sure no one calls him that, its terrible."
Why would you name him something where the first syllable is Ray, then? Ugh.

ButWhatIf posted:

The A-a is absolutely racist garbage, but the Abcde part is absolutely a thing that is happening among special snowflake yuppie parents. I wish it weren't.

Bertrand Hustle posted:

I went to high school with an Aoife, and she pronounced it correctly. Why is there no crying-harp-over-an-irish-flag :ireland: emoticon?

The worst variation on "Aisling" is when it's pronounced "ayz-ling".

Bertrand Hustle posted:

Plenty of Shakespearean names are great, though. Your name isn't something like Othello or Polonius, is it?

bringmyfishback posted:

It's Launcelot Gobbo, isn't it.

Say Nothing posted:

DemonDarkhorse posted:

Tuniscera. I googled it and got nothing. If someone can tell me this is a traditional name from somewhere I'd feel a lot better.

Junius posted:

(still want his name to be Tarragon)

Japan Times posted:

There’s a fashion going around, notes Shukan Shincho magazine, called “kirakira names.” “Kirakira” means glittering, flashing, like a shop window at Christmas. What does that have to do with names? Imagine naming your children Girishiya and Torino, the way Upper House Rep. Seiko Hashimoto has with her two sons.

That’s nothing compared to some of the other examples. Maybe sympathy is misplaced. Maybe it’s great to grow up with the name of a country (Greece) or a city (in Italy). But Shukan Shincho comments, not implausibly, concerning some of the other kirakira names it lists, “It’s like hanging a sign around a child’s neck reading, ‘Please sexually harass me.’ ” For instance (seriously): ‘Rabuho’ (love hotel), ‘Anaru’ (anal, intentionally or not).

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Kirakira names tend to be written with whimsical and unreadable kanji, some of them rather clever, if perversely so: “Adamu,” for example, written with the character “otoko” (man) — Adam does in fact mean “man” in Hebrew — or “Riida” (leader), written with characters meaning “world” and “guidance.”

Clever it may be, but one educator Shukan Shincho speaks to calls this “a ‘respectable’ form of child abuse.” Another notes a tendency toward self-consciousness and lack of confidence in children with kirakira names.

Say Nothing posted:

Via BSS comic strip thread.



The two guys, not the octopus, although her name is a bit weird.

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

--Lester Worcester

The Lord of Hats posted:

In the terrible spelling category, I would like to submit "Pawny", for when you want your kid to sound like the mascot do a 90s computer program for teaching kids chess.

Istari posted:

Sounds like a poorly-spelt feminised version of Jericho.

PureRok posted:

Could you explain this for non-Francophones?

Phlegmish posted:

A knecht is more of a servant, so child servant.

e: etymologically related to knight

Lord Hydronium posted:

I learned from the impeachment hearings yesterday that there are Republican congressmen named "Denver Riggleman" and "Barry Loudermilk".

marshmallow creep posted:

Twice now I have met SAcoyle--both first letters capitalized, no apostrophes. Everyone pronounced it "Sequoia." I guess the l is silent?

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

I got two on "Duh Mirage" as a pronunciation.

Phy posted:

The X gets pronounced like Sa, the AE is a rune or some poo poo that sounds like "ash", and the A-12 refers to the CIA-operated single-seat version of the SR-71 spy plane.

DemonDarkhorse posted:

phoenix knight and his sister heaven leeangle, which i hope to god is a typo and its supposed to be angel. not that that would make it better, but...

3D Megadoodoo posted:

What's the reference?

hyperhazard posted:

"My wife and I are a fan of strong female characters, which is why we're naming our daughter after the token female villain."

_{I'm still salty that they played up Phasma and then did squat with her.}

Phlegmish posted:

I never much enjoyed the show about a sociopathic woman terrorizing her environment, and I'm glad to have found out it's not particularly popular in the UK itself

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

Last name: Fish-Hacker

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Should I name my kid Ben or Otis OH WAIT I'VE GOT IT!

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Todger Strunk is a minor Carl Hiaasen character, I'm sure of it.

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

I...cannot...what? Idge-nay? Please tell me it's pronounced "Susan" or something.

CommissarMega posted:

We should bring back names like If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barbon.

OwlFancier posted:

If numbering your children is good enough for the romans then it's good enough for you. Primus, secundus, tertius, quartus, quintus, sextus, septimus, octavius... nonimus?? (loving stupid idiot gets called nonimus?) and decimus.

My name is biggest ten in the middle, and I shall have my vengeance.

Lady Disdain posted:

Mine would be Christophera.

Lady Disdain posted:

I'm assuming this is pronounced like a combination of the names Eliza and Beth, rather than like Elizabeth, and no one will convince me otherwise.

Samovar posted:

However, sometimes the demonym is not so clear, e.g. people from Barbados are Bajans, a person from Stockholm can be called a Nollåtta. And people from Linlithgow fall in the latter camp. Because people from Linlithgow are called, and I am not joking here, Black Bitches.