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bringmyfishback posted:There are 35 people in the US with my first and last name. How unfun! Then again, I have a very common last name and a pretty boring first name. His legal name is Jerome 
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My last boss was called Dick de Cock. I suspect his parents didn't speak English.
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Jul 21, 2013 15:16
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I was on Live Chat with an Amazon Customer Service representative and noticed a very unfortunate name, regardless of which spelling is correct.
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Jul 21, 2013 19:20
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When Jocelyn somehow isn't unique enough, I guess.
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Jul 21, 2013 22:53
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I'm often on live chat with all kinds of support companies for work and it's amazing how often you see the Username/Name combo spelled differently. No clue why it's so common, but if I'm bored I'll point it out to the person and they usually have no idea what I'm talking about. Beep boop follow the script.
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Jul 22, 2013 01:26
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I went to elementary school with a kid whose parents chose to hyphenate their name: Tondorf-Dick. No one could help themselves from reading it as Torndof-Dick. A painful burden, indeed.
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Jul 22, 2013 01:56
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Jul 30, 2013 12:21
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_S8qRUsm7E I'm Cosmo Kramer, the ASSMAN!
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Jul 30, 2013 14:37
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Dr. Comfort and his arch nemesis Dr. Harms. There's also a Dr. Cheesebro. Sounds like a cool dude. For first names: Nathanyal, Clitheroe, and Arubia (he went by "Lee" instead).
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Jul 30, 2013 21:31
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Two weeks ago, I was attending a funeral for a friend's grandmother. Everything went as normal up until the point I made the mistake of looking around the spot where the ashes were going to be interred. My eye fell upon a placard indicating, in the typical block capitals, the final resting place of BUD WIENERS and GLAD WIENERS. My inner five-year-old was far, far too amused by this. I had to bite my lip pretty drat hard to keep from snickering like an idiot.
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Jul 30, 2013 23:32
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Just heard from my sister that a neighbor of ours had her baby. In true, brilliant 17-year-old fashion, she named her Novella.
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Jul 30, 2013 23:52
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Got an Agapi G Schmarge at work today, and a Drucilla.
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Jul 31, 2013 03:40
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Just found out today that I work with a lady named Scheherazade. She goes by Shay so I had no idea. This is actually awesome, not terrible.
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Jul 31, 2013 03:43
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Dr. Gay Hitler, son of George Washington Hitler, was a local dentist, serving our community from 1922 through 1946 from his office on West Main Street.
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Jul 31, 2013 09:57
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Silly Hippie posted:Just found out today that I work with a lady named Scheherazade. She goes by Shay so I had no idea. This is actually awesome, not terrible. She must have a lot of stories to tell.
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Jul 31, 2013 12:30
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I Before E posted:She must have a lot of stories to tell. She's a librarian 
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Jul 31, 2013 14:55
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Today I read a news article about a 10-year-old girl who was killed by a drunk driver. Her name was Jazimen.
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Aug 1, 2013 16:34
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This is pretty relevant: http://www.gq.com/entertainment/humor/201307/nine-baby-naming-rules-2013quote:No one's gonna be dazzled that you took Christopher and turned it into Krystougher.
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Aug 1, 2013 19:33
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I saw a woman at work today with a newborn daughter in a pram and a new tattoo on her arm of the name "Kaydenze".
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Aug 1, 2013 21:41
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Aug 2, 2013 02:10
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I remember one New Year's Eve where I was threatened by a very drunk man with a baseball bat who thought it was about 6 hours later than it actually was. We called the cops on him, and they confirmed to us that his name was Joe Putupfence. Also from one idiotic section of my family I have a cousin named Jessecca, because my aunt couldn't be bothered to find out how the name was actually spelled. Danyull has a new favorite as of 00:52 on Aug 10, 2013 |
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Aug 10, 2013 00:46
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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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Lotish posted: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. "Dashunay." Where did her parents get the idea an I made that sound? That makes her name sound an awful lot like the French for "lunch".
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Aug 10, 2013 01:01
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I worked with a lady at a retail job named Danae. Her name was pronounced "day nuh", like you'd expect Dana to be pronounced. Because she wore a nametag, people would read her name and pronounce it like "duh nay" and she'd get really bothered. She's an adult woman with teenage children, you think that she'd be used to people not pronouncing her name correctly on the first try.
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Aug 10, 2013 04:26
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Along those lines, I know a girl with a name that ends in "reel" (I won't post the full thing because as far as I know her parents made it up, but imagine like "Careel", or something). She gets super offended if you pronounce it... well, the way it should be pronounced. It's "relle", instead. Sorry but that's not the way vowels work.
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Aug 10, 2013 04:45
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Relatedly, I know a "Shirley" who insists on her name being pronounced "Sheerley" and if you don't she'll yell at you.
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Aug 10, 2013 17:26
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It's not a stupid name, but I had a roommate named Kara. She was from Rhode Island, and due to her accent, the way she pronounced it was "Chaah-rha". She didn't mind if you said simply "Car-ah", but due to her accent and the way her friend said her name, I felt like I was never quite getting it right. Same with a classmate named Helena who was Hispanic. Couldn't quite get the guttural Spanish "H" right to say her name correctly, but again, she didn't care if you said it "Hell-enna" or even "Elena".
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Aug 10, 2013 17:55
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Dated an Onnika once. Pronounced like Hanukkah, but without the h. In retrospect it was kind of creepy because she was my dad's girlfriend's granddaughter.  Not as bad as the time when I was twelve and in an abusive relationship with an older girl named Meridian. Like, the imaginary geographical feature.
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Aug 10, 2013 17:56
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I saw a license plate yesterday that said "Carizma." There were rhinestones all around it.
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Aug 10, 2013 19:45
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If we're talking license plates, nothing will ever beat KKKATIE. I know that it's a reference to an old song, and I bet the driver's name was actually Katie, but something else jumps to mind immediately, and she lived in LA, for God's sakes.
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Aug 10, 2013 19:54
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We had a neighbor named Gloria, and her license plate was G1ORIA. Which I couldn't help but read as Guh-one-o-ria.
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Aug 10, 2013 22:50
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Leelee posted:It's not a stupid name, but I had a roommate named Kara. She was from Rhode Island, and due to her accent, the way she pronounced it was "Chaah-rha". She didn't mind if you said simply "Car-ah", but due to her accent and the way her friend said her name, I felt like I was never quite getting it right. Same with a classmate named Helena who was Hispanic. Couldn't quite get the guttural Spanish "H" right to say her name correctly, but again, she didn't care if you said it "Hell-enna" or even "Elena". The Spanish h is silent, so I'm really not sure what the issue here was. It's either a pronounced h or completely silent. The e is pronounced differently, though, which would be where you'd hear the real difference.
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Aug 10, 2013 23:26
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ibntumart posted:The Spanish h is silent, so I'm really not sure what the issue here was. It's either a pronounced h or completely silent. The e is pronounced differently, though, which would be where you'd hear the real difference. I think Leelee was saying she just had trouble pronouncing the name "correctly" based on how the name-haver herself pronounced it. Like, I had a friend in college named Terese and it was pronounced Tehr-eh-se (she was Lithuanian), but no one could say it quite the way Terese herself did.
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Aug 10, 2013 23:33
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Lotish posted: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? It's possible her parents were subliterate--for a while, my mom tutored adult literacy students, and this one lady had a daughter named Mouneah pronounced "mo-nay". 
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Aug 11, 2013 00:34
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I had a temp job this week with a guy whose parents hated all their children. He was the oldest and was named Harley R Scooter. His last name isn't Scooter, that's part of his middle name. The letter R doesn't stand for anything, it's just a letter. His little brother is named Hammer Ivan Ironface. Named after Ivan the Terrible and an offhand comment his grandad made about not being able to get the kid to smile. His little sister is named Jet Angel because she was born at 747. The youngest brother is Kurt Randolph Jr. and is named after a Nazi. Seriously. His grandfather was a pilot in WWII and crashed in enemy territory. He was put in a concentration camp and the only reason he survived was that an officer gave him extra rations. When the US Army showed up they killed all the Nazi officers they could find and he never got to thank the guy so he named his son after him. It's actually a cool story, but it doesn't change the fact that you're named after a Nazi, dude.
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Aug 11, 2013 16:11
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Leelee posted:It's not a stupid name, but I had a roommate named Kara. She was from Rhode Island, and due to her accent, the way she pronounced it was "Chaah-rha". She didn't mind if you said simply "Car-ah", but due to her accent and the way her friend said her name, I felt like I was never quite getting it right. Same with a classmate named Helena who was Hispanic. Couldn't quite get the guttural Spanish "H" right to say her name correctly, but again, she didn't care if you said it "Hell-enna" or even "Elena". "Elena" is the preferred spelling in Spanish. Regardless of how you spell it, it's pronounced "Eh-LEH-nah". The guttural H sound in Spanish is represented with the letter J (as well as G when it's in front E and I).
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Aug 11, 2013 16:22
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Spermando posted:"Elena" is the preferred spelling in Spanish. Regardless of how you spell it, it's pronounced "Eh-LEH-nah". The guttural H sound in Spanish is represented with the letter J (as well as G when it's in front E and I). She said it was pronounced that way then with the "J" sound in the front. I know it was spelled "Helena". Or I'm misremembering and she didn't care if you said the "H" in her name and the "J" sound was in her last name. It's been some time. Anyway, anyone else here in the hyphenated last name club? I joined it when I got married and didn't realize what a pain in the rear end it is. 
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Aug 11, 2013 16:58
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There's a guy that goes to my church named Hyman Waxman. Ouch.
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Aug 11, 2013 18:23
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An ex coworker of mine once told me that she already had names picked out for her future, not yet conceived, child. "If it's a girl, Scarlet and if it's a boy, Dracula." I laughed, assuming she was joking, but she continued that 'he probably wouldn't like his name when he was little, but once he got to high school he'd realize how cool it was.' She would not hear how backwards, and also wrong, she was. She was never the sharpest knife in the drawer but come on.
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Leelee posted:Anyway, anyone else here in the hyphenated last name club? I joined it when I got married and didn't realize what a pain in the rear end it is. Try being in the not-changing-your-name club. Some people act like I've murdered a puppy when I explain that my last name is MY NAME and not my husband's. The reason being that he has a hyphenated last name and I have two middle names, so being "Bringmyfishback Spanky Sue Hurgleburgle-Vomit-Johnson" would be kind of loving stupid. (Please note that this is not my real name.)
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