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My very first class I ever taught, one of the young women came up to me and asked why no one could say her daughter's name right. I asked her what it was, and she said the girl's name was "Essence." Not a difficult name, so I asked how she spelled it. "Exxenxe."  When I tried to politely explain that no one could say it right because those letters don't make those sounds, she kind of just bobbed her head, "Oh" and never came back. You asked! My father met a woman during a pre-sentence investigation whose name was spelled "L-a," but pronounced "La dash ah." HER PARENTS PRONOUNCED THE DASH! I personally felt Trashonda Jean just sounded unfortunate. It almost sounds like a sentence, like a way to say you got crap on your pants. Special mention to Demon Slaughter for having an absolutely amazing name.
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I have never known my father to lie about anything (not even Santa Claus), and he now and again let me read the declassified PSI reports, so I have seen other names that seemed similarly silly. Perhaps you've heard it so many times because there's someone out there that really did it? I dunno. My father and his coworkers kept a list of names they wanted to remember from client's past, and it was off that list. If it was bullshit, it would have been one of the other investigators putting it on the list.
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Sep 13, 2012 06:21
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My cousin's first name is Shara, and she almost married a man whose last name was Johnson. Then she ended up marrying a guy with the last name Mann. Dodged a bullet there! 
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Sep 13, 2012 15:44
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kannonfodder posted:Someone I used to work with named her kid Oden. You know, like the Norse god, only spelled wrong. I believe that is in fact just an alternative spelling. Wednesday originates from Woden's Day.
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Sep 14, 2012 04:10
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redmercer posted:The best last names for Basic Training are Gay, High, and anything so long they have to switch to a smaller font to make your name tapes (Chryssanthokopolous) I remember reading a Reader's Digest Humor in Uniform story about a guy named Nightingale who had the bad luck of coming after a Florence during roll call.
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Sep 16, 2012 00:23
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Okay, some woman's parents decided she needed two middle names. Brock Lee Why you gotta do that to your baby girl, man?
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Apr 19, 2013 00:46
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Some names are awful at the same time that they are freaking amazing. I stayed to watch the credits for Iron Man 3, and one of the welders on the set was named Christian Anguish. That's not a name, that's the subtitle for Passion of the Christ!
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May 13, 2013 20:31
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Dorcas is an ancient name for Hebrew women, if I remember right. (Also a beefy dude in a Fire Emblem game.) Did they really spell it that way?
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May 15, 2013 05:49
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Jmcrofts posted:Knew a guy in high school named Richard Packer aka Dick Packer. If we're going with schoolyard insults I always felt bad about Jeremy Asberger aka Germy Assburger. Some names are just way too easy to insult.
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May 23, 2013 18:17
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aDecentCupOfTea posted:Basically, my Dad named me. He was friends with an Australian couple that had a daughter about three months before I was born, they named their baby Laken, my dad liked the name, so he swiped it. While conversely, I was born at RAF Lakenheath but my dad swiped a different name from his best English friend, and so I became the only Gareth in the whole of Illinois or Texas. My sister was going to be named Megan, but right before she was born my mother, who was a teacher, noticed that all that young girls she met were being named Megan, so they jumped that ship for Gwyneth so that it would match my name. My sister's top three best friends in high school? All Megans. marshmallow creep has a new favorite as of 17:06 on Jun 20, 2013 |
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Jun 20, 2013 17:03
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My sister in law is Dusty Farmer. I may have mentioned that before, but that post above reminded me.
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Jun 22, 2013 15:34
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For me it's because it sounds like what an earnest 10 year old girl names her pet poodle, not a grown woman naming another human being.
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Jul 16, 2013 19:23
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1581 with my first name, 7111 with my last name. 1 or fewer with both.  Neat little site. I wish it would do middle names, though. My wife was named Heather Nicole (and during her parents' divorce she was almost Heather Nicole Smith). Pretty much every time we meet another Heather in Texas, that's their middle name.
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Jul 18, 2013 15:25
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And I just got a student named Stormy Sky. When we were introducing ourselves, she herself pointed out she's already met a Stormy Day.
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Jul 19, 2013 21:47
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I got a new student this month. Her name is written "Dishana," with a dash over the second a. What gets me is how she pronounces it. "Dash-uh-nay." Where did her parents get the idea an I made that sound?
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Aug 10, 2013 00:59
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I don't mind if you don't want to take your partner's name or don't want to hyphenate it. That's cool. What drives us up the wall at work is ladies who alternately decide to do all three on different days. Makes paperwork a nightmare. On more than one occasion a woman has assured us, "No, my name is always Marie Rodriguez*" only to find she signs the sheets Guadalupe Araujo* because that's her middle name and she felt like using her husband's name that day. *Not actual names, of course. And to be fair, usually they only change one part at a time, like using their nickname instead of their given name or their mother's name instead of their father's name. I know they don't see the harm in it, but it makes the paperwork look sketchy, during an audit especially, and makes it difficult to give them credit for their time. No, there's no way the data entry personnel can know that Mary Rodriguez and Maria Araujo are the same person; they haven't met you before and you only gave us the first name when you signed up. marshmallow creep has a new favorite as of 03:30 on Aug 12, 2013 |
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Aug 12, 2013 03:26
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Ofaloaf posted:I love digging through history books and finding odd names-- Puritan names are the best for that. Turns out, during the Interregnum, one of Cromwell's puppet parliaments was known as Barebone's Parliament, after MP Praise-God Barebone. Even better, Praise-God had two brothers with even more Puritannical names: Jesus-came-into-the-world-to-save Barebone and If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebone, the latter of whom was commonly known as "Dr. Damned Barebone" to his friends and colleagues. What the Christ!?  That's fantastic. I thought people making names that sound like sentences was awesome/awful enough, but putting actual sentences as your name? That's a whole other level.
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Aug 12, 2013 18:45
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canyoneer posted:There's an old school Mormon hater named Doctor Philastus Hurlbut. Has this thread complained about the hullabaloo regarding that kid named Messiah? Judge: "You can't name someone with a title!" *looks over at Doctor Hurlbut and Judge Reinhold.
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Aug 16, 2013 15:08
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Encountered a fantastic last name today: Riddlesperger. That's like cryptonazi for the internet age, that.
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Sep 13, 2013 15:30
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All this talk about naming kids after Zelda and Link reminds me that one of my friends was asked to name his baby brother. They named him Elric, after Full Metal Alchemist. At least that's a real name, so it could have been worse. I just can't help being reminded that she let her son name the baby after an anime character every time I see them. And that reminds me of our African American student named "Kawaii."
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Sep 29, 2013 05:00
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razorrozar posted:I knew at least three girls growing up named Logan. It's not all that unusual. I went to school with a girl named Michael. Always threw folks for a loop when she would introduce herself.
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Oct 10, 2013 19:25
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Yes, that was how she spelled it. Thanks for link, though. I love learning.
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Oct 10, 2013 22:43
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My name is Gareth, as in Sir. From what I'm told it's a pretty common name across the pond today. gently caress Gawain, I want to see a kid named Gwalchmei!
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Oct 13, 2013 04:51
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Istari posted:her name is Laņa (pronounced Lana; her parents were creative spellers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyQvjKqXA0Y&t=20s
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Oct 20, 2013 14:58
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That's a wrecka alright.
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Oct 21, 2013 13:36
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Who the hell has completed fourth grade and manages to mispronounce Charlemagne? I could maybe understand misspelling it, but that's just depressing. Where do you go to school that they cover Charlemagne by fourth grade? I went to school in Illinois and he didn't come up, then I moved to Texas and most of the people I teach didn't hear about him until probably high school if that?
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Oct 21, 2013 21:15
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I teach some class in an elementary class room, and saw one of the labels as Getsumani, which just turns into "Get some money" in my head.
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Oct 22, 2013 03:05
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Lolitas Alright! posted:We had an "Alexz" in a high school class, pronounced "Alex". There was a TV show around called "Instant Star" and the lead character was Alexz-with-a-z, so I wouldn't be surprised if she got it from there. Six years later, still going by Alexz. In this vain, one of my students is named Xzavier.
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Oct 30, 2013 22:10
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Got a new student today from Thailand. Not a terrible name, per se--just one that causes an English speaker to pause. "Wipaporn." Pronounced like you think: like a command to beat a pornagrapher or pornstar with a whip.
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Nov 5, 2013 17:42
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Sham bam bamina! posted:It's an actual Indian name, thankfully, not a case of someone naming their kid after push-pins. So it's more "Pushp-Indra?" That doesn't seem so bad at all. Indra being a leader of the devas and Pushp being a common place name, it makes a lot of sense.
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Nov 5, 2013 17:51
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flakeloaf posted:Why are there feminized masculine names (Henrietta, Georgette) but not masculinized feminine ones? Meeting one "Elizabob" would make me feel a lot better about all the Paulettes. Male or Unisex names becoming female is pretty common (like Shannon or Ashley) but rarely go the other way. I think it's for basically the same reason that many places frown much harder on male homosexuals than lesbians: femininity is viewed as inherently weaker than or inferior to masculinity, and a man taking a female name or the "female place" in a relationship is considered that much more taboo.
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Nov 5, 2013 18:58
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One of my friends had a roommate named Dib, after Invader Zim. Grown man named for a cartoon character whose defining characteristics are a huge head and impotent paranoia.
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Kazy posted:Your friend had a 12-year-old roommate? Or are we still on self-appointed nicknames? The latter.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Not really... the vowel sound in พร ("porn") is อ, which is an /aw/ sound (as in lawn). There's really not a good way to transliterate Thai into the English alphabet, and the "official" one is probably the worst of the lot for non-speakers trying to get close to the Thai pronunciation. Another example: the main airport in Bangkok is Suvarnabhumi Airport. Pronounced like "Su-wan-na-poom", written that way in English because of Sanskrit. I'm just saying it how she said to say it. 
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I had a student once who heard the "La dash a" joke and told me she was totally going to use it for her next baby. Perhaps someone beat her to it near twenty year ago. Or someone decided to change their name to that because people are weird and change their names to all sorts of weird poo poo, like Megatron (not a Family Guy joke) and Beezow Doo-doo Zopittybop-bop-bop
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Dec 3, 2013 22:55
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You can not be serious. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck me those are dumb.
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Dec 8, 2013 18:46
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My hair is a bowler hat your argument is invalid.
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Dec 10, 2013 21:01
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Met a girl working at the supermarket last week whose name tag said Shetadra. It mostly just struck me how easily that becomes "She-Tard!" on the playground.
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Jan 6, 2014 15:59
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Aphrodite posted:My brother is friends with a kid whose name translates to Blade The Axe. What language is that, if I might ask? If we go with translation or meanings, I named my daughter "Little Wing" and my eldest son "Evil Genius."
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My wife's oldest known ancestor had the first name Testament.
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