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Post by Professor Q on Feb 24, 2017 4:34:31 GMT
So let's start one. This time, we're looking at outlandish names. The intent is not to mock the parents giving those names (who probably had good intentions in their hearts; who am I to judge? ) but simply to look at the lighter side of things. I'll bite first. A distant relative had twin boys and wanted to name them after "famous figures in British and American history". They ended up with the charming rhyming couplet of Nixon and Nelson. Nelson's not too bad, but Nixon? Over to you!
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Post by tawny on Feb 24, 2017 5:56:50 GMT
Don't laugh; I know someone who named their twin boys Romulus & Remus. Go figure.
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Post by Professor Q on Feb 24, 2017 6:09:41 GMT
Were they Harry Potter fans, by any chance? My favourite doozy comes from a couple who had been trying to have a child for a long time. When he arrived, they named him "Gifto" because he was a gift from God. Can't argue with the sentiment, but that poor kid was condemned to a life of teasing at school and college.
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Post by pianistclare on Feb 24, 2017 14:56:57 GMT
How about the fictional twins: Polly & Esther?
But, talking of freaky coincidences: a friend took a job in the inner city and had 24 students. Twenty three darling little African American children, and one white child (first grade) . The Caucasian kid's name? Ebony. True story.
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Post by pianistclare on Feb 24, 2017 14:59:09 GMT
My daughter's birthday falls on the feast of St. Zita. Monsignor wanted me to go with Zita. Now I love pasta and all, but just, no. I wanted Melody, but lamented it wasn't a Saint's name. His answer was "well, she could become the first one!And we can have holy cards made!" Such a funny guy. I miss him. We went with Veronica. Monsignor was pleased.
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Post by oneofthewomen on Feb 24, 2017 15:55:15 GMT
I have lots of friends who teach in inner city schools, both here in Western New York state and elsewhere. I could write a book of crazy baby names. A few of my favorites- Chlamydia(no, I am NOT kidding!), GreatGod, and my favorite Shitthead (pronounced Shi-teed) Sometimes I weep for humanity.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 16:23:32 GMT
How about the fictional twins: Polly & Esther? But, talking of freaky coincidences: a friend took a job in the inner city and had 24 students. Twenty three darling little African American children, and one white child (first grade) . The Caucasian kid's name? Ebony. True story. Lol! ROTF! :-D
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Post by glennonp on Feb 24, 2017 21:03:45 GMT
How about the fictional twins: Polly & Esther? But, talking of freaky coincidences: a friend took a job in the inner city and had 24 students. Twenty three darling little African American children, and one white child (first grade) . The Caucasian kid's name? Ebony. True story. Not entirely fictional....I heard of a family that named their daughter after her grandmothers. Polly and Esther. No, their last name was not "Pantsuit" or "Leisuresuit"...happily.
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Post by katie on Feb 25, 2017 11:19:43 GMT
Were they Harry Potter fans, by any chance? My favourite doozy comes from a couple who had been trying to have a child for a long time. When he arrived, they named him "Gifto" because he was a gift from God. Can't argue with the sentiment, but that poor kid was condemned to a life of teasing at school and college. Meanwhile..the incredibly unique name "Matthew" means gift from God too. Lol....
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Post by pianistclare on Feb 26, 2017 2:42:02 GMT
I have lots of friends who teach in inner city schools, both here in Western New York state and elsewhere. I could write a book of crazy baby names. A few of my favorites- Chlamydia(no, I am NOT kidding!), GreatGod, and my favorite Shitthead (pronounced Shi-teed) Sometimes I weep for humanity. True story: Local girl at the high school. A-a Pronounced: Adasha
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Post by pensmama87 on Feb 26, 2017 13:10:15 GMT
I have lots of friends who teach in inner city schools, both here in Western New York state and elsewhere. I could write a book of crazy baby names. A few of my favorites- Chlamydia(no, I am NOT kidding!), GreatGod, and my favorite Shitthead (pronounced Shi-teed) Sometimes I weep for humanity. True story: Local girl at the high school. A-a Pronounced: Adasha People think that's fake but it isn't!!! When I was doing my teaching internship one of the other interns had a student named T-ia. Intern made the horrid mistake of assuming it was "Tia," but it was "Tadashia."
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Post by pianistclare on Feb 26, 2017 13:14:01 GMT
Makes you wonder how they fill out forms with little boxes that don't take characters.
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Post by pensmama87 on Feb 26, 2017 14:44:27 GMT
Makes you wonder how they fill out forms with little boxes that don't take characters. So, two of my kids have accents in their names (which some people think is pretentious, but it's how you spell them, and they reflect our family heritage. And in anywhere outside the US, nobody blinks an eye about them.) Anyway, apparently whoever processed the paperwork either couldn't or didn't know how to put that character on the form for one of my kids, so officially his name lacks the accent. For the other, they could do it, so his name does have it. It may be complicated in the future, but I don't blame that on me - because again, anywhere outside the US, it would have been a total non-issue. Maybe it's just me, but accented letters are very, very different from punctuation. Punctuation is about stops. They're not meant to be said. So that is crazy. Bring back sentence diagramming!
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Post by tawny on Feb 26, 2017 19:39:33 GMT
I don't even know if they teach sentence diagramming anymore. It think it went the way of teaching the Palmer Method of penmanship.
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Post by pianistclare on Feb 26, 2017 22:58:15 GMT
The local school system has the high schoolers doing it at the start of each day.
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