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Deific Presence posted:Being from Alabama, I'm sad to say that "Bo" is a pretty common name. I know a German dude named Bo. Not a nickname. In middle school I thought the word "wanker" was hilarious and I said it a lot. My dad told me it was a real-rear end last name. I looked in the phone book to prove him wrong, and found a Mr William Wanker who lived on Walton Way in Woodburn.
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Dogbrisket posted:Worst thing I ever saw in my time working in California's social service system was a kid named Wu Tang. I'm imagining a teenage action hero with a father who was Japanese martial arts master and a mother who was a black American gangstress, and he must unravel the clues surrounding their mysterious deaths...
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Key & Peele tell the La-A story on their new episode. At the end of what felt kind of like a massively racist bit on football players' names.
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Shut the gently caress up, Megazone. My sister's pregnant. No name decided yet. I've already given my soon-to-be niece/nephew the nickname of Truck Spank. Everybody's calling him or her that, and it's still just a fetus.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:
First and middle, I think.
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Sunshine89 posted:If my parents were so cruel as to have done this to me, I'd have changed it to Steven the second I turned 18 And miss the opportunity to change it to Sven?
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Tritanomalicious posted:
Wait, if not Kristoff, how do you pronounce it? And seriously, what's with the Zs? You've got to admit somebody made a mistake with the thing about the Zs.
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Popcyan posted:
The only excuse for this poo poo is if Ireland started using the Roman alphabet before everybody else. A cursory wiki search didn't tell me the history of the alphabet used for Irish. Can somebody give me some insight? Cause if "Sabhdh" is supposed to be a transliteration based on phonics, somebody's gotta burn. (I'm going to assume that the various languages went from runes or... heiroglyphs or whatever into alphabets then evolved separately. It may be insensitive of me, but if a language evolved to spell a word "Sabhdh" then it must have gotten high along the way.)
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Dogan posted:Weird but also fairly cool names (people I've met in North Carolina): Might have been named after the Styx ferryman, which would be pretty cool.
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Today I met a man named Firstname Jack Harder.
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I would love to see some more class rosters of kids in English classes in Asian countries. You know, when kids choose their English name of Altria, Sweater, Nursy, Five, Click...
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:My husband works with a Mexican guy called Hilario, which in Spanish is no more unusual than a name like Hope or Prudence* I guess, but it;s pretty funny for English speakers. How do you pronounce this name?
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The Pell posted:
Why is there a baby gallery? Anyway there's some pretty good stuff on it, for example these beautiful children born within 15 days of each other. http://www.tillamookregionalmc.org/gallery/jaxon-clarence http://www.tillamookregionalmc.org/gallery/jaxon-kb http://www.tillamookregionalmc.org/gallery/jaxon-allen Tillamook is a pretty small town that does not deserve that many Jaxons.
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Douginc posted:Not sure if anyone else has ever run into this name: Febby. In Minnesota here and met a girl who worked at a restaurant named Febby, and asked her about it. Apparently it's short for February and she has a sister April, and the mom was hoping to have a third girl named January, but instead had a boy who they gave a "normal" name, don't remember what she said it was, but it was something unmemorable like 'John' or 'Mike'. If they'd only gone for April -> May -> June, they wouldn't be in this mess!
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Celery Face posted:Butch Dick, a carver from the Songhees Nation. Take out the T and his name would almost mean "bend over" in German. It would mean "book fat" until you added the umlauts, which is even better.
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Sadhbh Walshe
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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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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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At first I thought it's "Mal" with a crossbar added, then I realized it's "Ana(:"
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Ugh, "Heusner."
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Mister Olympus posted:Heard of an Augie on my flight home yesterday. If your name's Augustus, it's a better nickname than Gusty.
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Ofaloaf posted:Today, I had a student named Lucas Gaius Crastinus. This is the second Roman(-ish) name I've encountered at this school, and he's not from the same family as Gaius Junius from last year. Gaius Junius is really good.
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Lotish posted:My mother was just telling me about one of her female students who was named James Curtis [lastname]. Apparently she was the youngest of seven girls, and they had promised grandpa they were going to name a baby after him, so she drew the short straw. That's cool. If I were her I'd be happy about it. Girls with boy names is nice as long as it's not like Gary or Irving or Anthony or something
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I looked at the license of a person whose legal first name is Tifphany.
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And now for stupid names from history: there was a shipping merchant, banker, and stock broker in the early 19th century named Preserved Fish.
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Antivehicular posted:"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aurelio Jones was to remember that distant afternoon when his mother took him to discover Starbucks." 
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REQUIRED READING http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/03/how-to-name-your-baby/
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Analy. I'll see if I can find the picture I took, it was a long time ago. A car, clearly the car of a person who has just graduated high school, and part of the decoration read "You did it! Analy"
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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. Most of those aren't names. Quintus, Sextus, and Septimus were praenomia. Ocavianus was a praenomen later, modeled after the nomen Octavius. They didn't refer to birth order, rather the month one was born in. Presumably one who could have been named the nonexistent Tertius was instead called Marcus. But this connection wasn't known by everybody in the Republican period--by then they had become just names, not necessarily named after month born any more. Apparently some women were named Prima, Secunda, etc, but I would guess these were less "names" and more an expansion of calling her Minor or Maior, with recordkeeping omitting a redundant-seeming first name ("everybody knows she'd be Julia, you don't need to write it down.") Bonus: Postumus doesn't mean posthumous--but it usually indicates it, because it means "the final."
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Pope Hilarius II posted:They were both praenomina and ordinal numbers. Don't you think that someone named Quintus wouldn't pause to think that the expression for, say, "the fifth soldier" ("miles quintus") would sound an awful lot like his name? Or what do you think Latin used for ordinal numbers? Like Russians, Romans had three names (usually), so that's why their praenomina didn't matter all that much in the long run of things. 1. I fuckin know they're numbers dude 2 Nope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postumus_(praenomen)
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Casebeer is a cool surname Winter Stormer posted:Another grab-bag of Names of Real People Who Got SSNs But Don't Need Them Anymore. killer
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Sir-Kristopher, nicknamed "Turkey Legs", aspirational naming can go awry 
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Ralph Hurley posted:What happened to that Name of the Year bracket tournament? We need some more of the likes of Mathdaniel Squirrel and Jizyah Shorts. Last I checked they let their website's hosting lapse and had only a crappy twitter account. RIP
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Wow, is this ever a Photoshop Phriday challenge of days past! "Design Nazi safety posters starring Kaiser Caution" lmao. did you make the thread??
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Meet his brother: Equanimeous St. Brown They're from Placentia
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Hippocrass posted:Oh my God their real names. Their all real. I am still thinking about this one
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Hats lil pony lol
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