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My grandmother's best friend was named Jo King. She was a realtor and had calendars and billboards and whatever.
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Today at work, I encountered someone with the name An-G as her official first name of record.
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Oct 16, 2013 17:03
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Ottawa has a realtor named Anita Hoare. And that would appear to be her married name 
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Oct 16, 2013 17:39
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flakeloaf posted:Ottawa has a realtor named Anita Hoare. And that would appear to be her married name There's a politician in my neck of the woods named Dudley Dudley. She was apparently named Dudley after her grandmother or something, and then she married a guy with the last name "Dudley".
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Oct 16, 2013 20:36
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Beardless posted:There's a politician in my neck of the woods named Dudley Dudley. She was apparently named Dudley after her grandmother or something, and then she married a guy with the last name "Dudley". My cousin's girlfriend's first name is the same as our last name. But it's a much more normal name for a girl. The hilarious kicker is that her mother's maiden name is the same as his mother's married name. She gave her daughter her maiden name as a first name.
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Oct 16, 2013 20:45
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I saw bills for a doctor years ago whose real name was Cutting B. Favour. For the longest time I was sure it was fake, but apparently not. He chose a profession fitting of his name. http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/cutting-b-favour/4939104 Unlike one of my junior high gym teachers, Ray Mailman. (!)
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Oct 16, 2013 22:09
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I am co-mod on a Minecraft server with someone named Baylor, which isn't that strange-sounding but is uncommon enough I've never seen it anywhere else.
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Oct 16, 2013 22:22
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Bertrand Hustle posted:She gave her daughter her maiden name as a first name. This is not particularly uncommon historically. This is why there are various names that are both first and last names.
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Oct 16, 2013 23:26
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razorrozar posted:I am co-mod on a Minecraft server with someone named Baylor, which isn't that strange-sounding but is uncommon enough I've never seen it anywhere else.
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Oct 17, 2013 00:11
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One of the managers of the local electronics store is named Qyrstyn [last name]. Seriously. Qyrstyn. I don't even know how to pronounce it (although I can guess), let alone WHY you would inflict it on a child.
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Oct 17, 2013 00:59
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She most likely inflicted it on herself because Kristen/Kirsten didn't accurately express what a special snowflake she is. In middle school, I had friends named Meghan, Erin and Julie who began spelling their names Megn, Arin, and Giuli to make themselves seem extra-special. Haven't spoken to any of them in ages, but according to Facebook the first two still spell their names that way, years later.
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Oct 17, 2013 01:07
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Oct 17, 2013 02:10
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flakeloaf posted:Ottawa has a realtor named Anita Hoare. And that would appear to be her married name I just found an obituary in an Ottawa newspaper for someone called William Loney. He went by Bill for some reason.
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Oct 17, 2013 02:32
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This was a LiveJournal "wank" from way back: the chick who named her kid P.A.R.A.D.O.X.A.L. and wanted to divorce the baby's father for not letting her do his vasectomy herself.  Yeah, "L.", because they apparently couldn't come up with a good L name and ALSO because anime. They have a younger girl now with another completely bullshit ridiculous name.
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Oct 17, 2013 02:38
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I ran across this guy's marker at Fort Snelling National Cemetery a few years ago, it stuck in my head because it's just too perfect. Died four years before Alvin and The Chipmunks was a thing. There was a woman in my work the other day who had a gaggle of kids with her, and she called out "Rohan, get your coat we're leaving." She also had a Rider in her group, but I'm unsure if the two were related (they probably were.)
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Oct 17, 2013 02:53
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Lolitas Alright! posted:This was a LiveJournal "wank" from way back: the chick who named her kid P.A.R.A.D.O.X.A.L. and wanted to divorce the baby's father for not letting her do his vasectomy herself.  tokillthesunflower posted:I ran across this guy's marker at Fort Snelling National Cemetery a few years ago, it stuck in my head because it's just too perfect.
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Oct 17, 2013 03:34
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Girl. They ended up defaulting to just calling her Pandora for short, which I feel is a total cop-out to giving the kid a loving acronym for a name.
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Oct 17, 2013 03:38
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I'm incredibly mad about Paradoxal. I'm so mad about Paradoxal you don't even know. What the gently caress kind of a loving name is Paradoxal jesus loving christ.
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Oct 17, 2013 04:07
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I was in a restaurant/bar tonight and the Boston-Detroit baseball game was on the TV. I said something about it to a waiter I sort of know, and he said he didn't really care about the game, but he pointed out the unfortunately named Doug Fister.
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Oct 17, 2013 04:10
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Oct 17, 2013 08:41
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I'm reading muster rolls from the 1680s for my dissertation, and yesterday I found a dude named Centuriy (Century) Von Breittenbach. He's a corporal. Good for you, man. Just...good for you. Hope you had a fantastic life.
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Oct 17, 2013 09:33
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Oct 18, 2013 03:20
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SPADAQUE VOLCIMUS  Named after a gardening tool, I guess.
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Oct 18, 2013 05:58
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Oct 19, 2013 02:55
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Holy crap that is a beautiful name and flag combination. 
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Oct 19, 2013 04:19
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I'm still hung up on trying to pronounce the Pole's name. Kish-chot? Kich-kot? Dude needs to go on Wheel of Fortune so he can buy a vowel.
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Oct 19, 2013 04:45
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I was thinking Ksz-scott, maybe?
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Oct 19, 2013 04:54
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I'm hazarding something like ksh-chot based on Wikipedia's IPA pronunciation for the name.
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Oct 19, 2013 05:25
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Flagrant Abuse posted:I'm still hung up on trying to pronounce the Pole's name. Kish-chot? Kich-kot? Dude needs to go on Wheel of Fortune so he can buy a vowel. In Polish digraphs the "z" kind of works like "h" in English digraphs, in the sense Polish "sz" is like English "sh" and Polish "cz" is like English "ch". So imagine it being "Kshchot" for English and you'll get pretty close. Czech was historically similar but they started using the caron mark instead, so, for example, Czech "č" is basically Polish "cz" is basically English "ch". The word "Czech" made it into English before this was standardized, which is why in English we write "Czech Republic" while in Czech they write "Česká republika", etc. (For Polish, the one weird one is Polish "rz" which is along the lines of "zh" in English, because of the Polish pronunciation of "r" being vaguely similar to the Spanish pronunciation of "r".) tacodaemon has a new favorite as of 06:32 on Oct 19, 2013 |
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Oct 19, 2013 05:57
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Well, at least now I can say I've learned something today!
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Oct 19, 2013 06:10
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Oh, so szcz is basically щ. Alright, gotcha. 
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Oct 19, 2013 06:30
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If you also know that: (1) "o" in Polish writing is pronounced similarly to what Americans call "short o" (as in "hot" or "cot"), and (2) "ie" in Polish writing has a sound that I guess could be written in English as "yeh" or "yuh", then you can figure out that the popular Mad magazine nonsense word "Potrzebie" (which is an actual Polish word) is pronounced something like pot-ZHEB-yuh
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Oct 19, 2013 06:30
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You can hear someone from Poland pronounce it here: http://www.forvo.com/word/adam_kszczot/#pl
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Oct 19, 2013 07:05
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I give you Gaylord Silly and a discussion of Polish pronunciation ensues?
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Say Nothing posted:I give you Gaylord Silly and a discussion of Polish pronunciation ensues? You knew you were asking for it. 
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Oct 19, 2013 14:50
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Gah!
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I can't remember if I've posted it before, but I was reminded of it after just seeing a Facebook post - a girl I grew up with had a daughter not too long ago, and named her "Paylen." For exactly the reason you're thinking of and dreading.
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Acid Reflux posted:I can't remember if I've posted it before, but I was reminded of it after just seeing a Facebook post - a girl I grew up with had a daughter not too long ago, and named her "Paylen." It's wishful naming. She wants her daughter to be almost president someday. The spelling makes me think of Payless shoe store though.
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Seeing this thread reminded me that I saw this on my Facebook feed a while back. The father was the friend of an acquaintance.
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Acid Reflux posted:I can't remember if I've posted it before, but I was reminded of it after just seeing a Facebook post - a girl I grew up with had a daughter not too long ago, and named her "Paylen."
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