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Dommenique. Because Dominic wasn't fancay enough. Shortened? Yes. Written as Domme, by his mother. Hoping she just doesn't know that's an actual word.
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Mescal posted:Sadhbh Walshe Sadhbh is one of those names that's as common as dirt in Ireland, and pretty much unpronounceable by everyone else. Although the original spelling is much nicer than Sive (or Sow). Naturally Selected posted:Dommenique. Because Dominic wasn't fancay enough. Shortened? Yes. Written as Domme, by his mother. Hoping she just doesn't know that's an actual word. Because of the similarity in spelling to Dominique, I would assume that Dommenique were a girl's name.
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Apr 4, 2014 04:37
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Istari posted:Sadhbh is one of those names that's as common as dirt in Ireland, and pretty much unpronounceable by everyone else. Although the original spelling is much nicer than Sive (or Sow). It was a boy. A girl named Domme would be even worse.
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Apr 4, 2014 04:42
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While reading about civilian radiation accidents, I came across a Radiologic Technologist called Raven Knickerbocker, who apparently went nuts (possibly because everyone made fun of her name) and performed 151 CT scan slices on the head of a 23 month-old child over a 65-minute period. The kid survived with radiation burns.
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Istari posted:Sadhbh is one of those names that's as common as dirt in Ireland, and pretty much unpronounceable by everyone else. Although the original spelling is much nicer than Sive (or Sow). So is it pronounced Sive, or Sow?
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Apr 4, 2014 05:25
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Mescal posted:So is it pronounced Sive, or Sow? It depends where you're from. Most people pronounce it Sive (rhymes with drive). But in the Connacht dialect, it's pronounced Sow (rhymes with cow).
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Apr 4, 2014 06:06
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flakeloaf posted:Ottawa has a realtor named Anita Hoare. And that would appear to be her married name Update: Her husband is accused of trying to kill her. Accused isn't convicted of course, but even if he turns out to be not guilty this'll still probably tarnish his good na... ...um...
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Apr 4, 2014 14:07
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Good friend o mine is named Manmeet. Its obviously pronounced differently in whatever part of India his parents are from but me and his other friends just call him the English phonetic pronunciation of man-meat.
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Apr 4, 2014 16:42
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I'm terminating old students in our database, and just came across a man with the given name Divas Cursel (first and middle name). I don't care how you pronounce it, lady, you just named your boy the plural of diva.
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Apr 4, 2014 16:56
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Say Nothing posted:While reading about civilian radiation accidents, I came across a Radiologic Technologist called Raven Knickerbocker, who apparently went nuts (possibly because everyone made fun of her name) and performed 151 CT scan slices on the head of a 23 month-old child over a 65-minute period. This is Raven Knickerbocker:  More info on the case: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/us/16radiation.html
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Apr 4, 2014 17:10
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Lotish posted:I'm terminating old students in our database, and just came across a man with the given name Divas Cursel (first and middle name). I don't care how you pronounce it, lady, you just named your boy the plural of diva. I would read it with a long-I like in "Divers."
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Apr 4, 2014 21:47
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Mooktastical posted:I work in a call center, and a woman regularly calls in with a last name she pronounces as "cologne", but is spelled c o l o n. It's pronounced Boo-kay.
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Apr 4, 2014 23:36
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KillerEggplant posted:It's pronounced Boo-kay. Hyacinth or Rose?
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Apr 5, 2014 15:45
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Imperialist Dog posted:Hyacinth or Rose? It's my sister, Violet, the one with the Mercedes, sauna and room for a pony.
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Apr 5, 2014 17:59
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Imperialist Dog posted:Hyacinth or Rose? Neither, just Daisy.
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Apr 6, 2014 08:30
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He used to be the drummer for The Damned; I don't think punk names should count.
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Apr 6, 2014 09:12
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A friend of a friend on Facebook has the absolutely fantastic last name of Zimbadima-Zimbadara. I think she's Nigerian. Edit: I don't know if that's a legal name or just a Facebook name, but it's fun to say either way.
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Apr 9, 2014 08:35
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I saw a Tyfanee on Facebook.
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Apr 10, 2014 01:05
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I know a lady named Africa. She has a sister named Ultra.
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Apr 10, 2014 18:42
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Are you kidding me with this stuff? http://www.avclub.com/article/game-thrones-khaleesi-now-more-popular-baby-name-b-203365 At least 146 people all had the brilliant idea to name their daughter Khaleesi.
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My nephew's name is Rylan. My male cousin is named Taylor and people always say "Isn't that a girl's name?" My parents have a neighbor whose first name is Gaylord. He goes by Gay for short. A friend of mine's name is Andrea but she gets really really mad if you pronounce it as anything other than "Ahn-dray-ah" It is NOT "An-dree-ah"
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Apr 12, 2014 14:24
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Nothing terrible about wanting your name pronounced right, though.
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Apr 12, 2014 15:07
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Yeah, my name is Gareth and people mispronounce that all the time (the first syllable is pronounce like "care"). Most of the time I get called Garreth, Garth, Garrett or Gary.
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Apr 12, 2014 15:15
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Lotish posted:Yeah, my name is Gareth and people mispronounce that all the time (the first syllable is pronounce like "care"). Most of the time I get called Garreth, Garth, Garrett or Gary.
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Apr 13, 2014 02:21
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Saw this name in an awfully  story* in the paper today (the image is huge, sorry about that): * It's a story about a baby that died, his parents (who didn't even get him a crib, letting him sleep on the couch, and didn't even recover their child's body), and the non-profit organization that gave him a funeral.
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Apr 13, 2014 07:12
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MisterBibs posted:Saw this name in an awfully I was at he local cemetery the other day, and found a section belonging to the Butt family. There were twin babies that had died right after birth, and hadn't been named. So their gravestone read: Baby Boy Butt Baby Girl Butt In the arms of the Lord.
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Apr 13, 2014 09:23
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 Perhaps using his whole name would have been appropriate.
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So this name isn't of a person, but it's still extremely unfortunate. In Tucson, there's this one local news channel, KVOA, that proudly advertises that they have a weather/traffic/whatever-the-hell-else-they-feel-like-using-it-for surveillance system called... Skynet. I poo poo you not.
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Say Nothing posted:It's the other way round for me. My name is one of those others you posted and I get called Gareth a lot. The best was the time I took a driver's ed class and my table also had a Gary and a Garrett.
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Saw a kid at an elementary school whose name was "Beta", which I thought was kind of depressing. Like perhaps the next child will be of satisfactory standards.
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Mooktastical posted:I work in a call center, and a woman regularly calls in with a last name she pronounces as "cologne", but is spelled c o l o n. High school was a long time ago, but it seems like that'd be the totally standard Spanish pronunciation of Colon.
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falconry posted:Saw a kid at an elementary school whose name was "Beta", which I thought was kind of depressing. Like perhaps the next child will be of satisfactory standards. Oh, you mean Gamma?
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I work at a women's clinic and we see all sorts of unusual names, but the one that has given me the most rage is "Tephany". I mean really. Come on now. Tephany? As if we don't have enough Tiffany/Tiffani's as there is already. She was in her early 20s, too. Please someone tell me it's a real name.
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Tephany is a real last name. Maybe someone decided to snag it to use as a first name, like MacKenzie. That's the most charitable spin I can put on it.
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^^ Looks like a permutation of "Tiffany" to me. Forgot to report to this thread when my high school art teacher had a baby boy and named him Ronin. But what gets me is that she made his middle name James. What kind of sadistic fucker do you have to be to do that? It's tantamount to saying, "Hey, you could have had this perfectly normal name, but I'm gonna saddle you with something else because I want my baby to be a unique snowflake!" And please don't say that parents do that because "the middle name is what they really call the kid." That's bullshit.
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Y-Hat posted:^^ Looks like a permutation of "Tiffany" to me. I'm called by my middle name. I know lots of people who are. It's irritating and inconvenient. And they could always call him Ron. I've a friend named Miri after the Star Trek character. Her name on her birth certificate is listed as "Miriam" because her mom wanted her to have a real name to sign on official documents.
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GabrielAisling posted:I'm called by my middle name. I know lots of people who are. It's irritating and inconvenient. And they could always call him Ron. She's gonna be mad when she finds her birth certificate and realizes she had a normal name all along.
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SpookyLizard posted:Or cat name. With or without the pun. My uncle had a cat named Gatsby. He was grey with white boots and enjoyed sleeping in the open ceiling joints in the basement. He died earlier this year
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