In Texas, we shop at the H.E.B for "Howard E. Butt" (or Howie Butt), and I wanted to (albeit jokingly) name my son "Ramses."
What did you name him? Odysseus?
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Chance Abattoir
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01-10-2006 22:05
In Texas, we shop at the H.E.B for "Howard E. Butt" (or Howie Butt), and I wanted to (albeit jokingly) name my son "Ramses." What did you name him? Odysseus? _____________________
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Chance Abattoir
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01-10-2006 22:07
Any name that is not pronounced anything like it's spelled. ie. Siobhan -> "Sha vohn" No sh!t. I hate that. There's a farking bee in that name! _____________________
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01-10-2006 22:09
I once knew a kid named Rufus. Who the frekk names their kid RUFUS? This was before Bill and Ted.
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01-10-2006 22:24
Does pronouncing by nonstandard rules make it a mispronunciation? Really, I thought Chance was just picking on me. And really, how the heck else would you pronounce 'ghoti'? -Ghoti Pretty much how it is spelled. Go-tee. Not quite the same as the name for the type of beard, and I'll allow something like "gah-tai" would not be unreasonable, and is about what runs through my head anyway, to be honest. (Sorry!) It's not that's it's a mispronunciation, but rather, the point "ghoti" is often used to illustrate (the irregularity of spelling in the English language) it actually kind of far-fetched (since nobody who wasn't in on the gag would naturally pronounce it "fish"  .Or, to quote the wikipedia article: "It has been argued that these examples in fact illustrate a lack of irregularity in English spelling — ghoughphtheightteeau would be a ridiculous way to spell potato, and in English, potato isn't spelled even close to that way. Because of this, it is claimed that the rules of English spelling, which prohibit the formation of words like ghoti, are in fact reasonably sensible." By no means am I picking on you, considering I've yet to hear two different people pronounce MY online name the same way twice.  Also, "ghoughphtheightteeau", is my new Favorite Word. _____________________
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01-10-2006 22:36
By no means am I picking on you, considering I've yet to hear two different people pronounce MY online name the same way twice. ah-lee-ah-see _____________________
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01-11-2006 01:57
By no means am I picking on you, considering I've yet to hear two different people pronounce MY online name the same way twice. |
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01-11-2006 03:56
Any name that is not pronounced anything like it's spelled. ie. Siobhan -> "Sha vohn" Never trust the spelling of a gaelic name. |
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01-11-2006 05:39
Pretty much how it is spelled. Go-tee. Not quite the same as the name for the type of beard, and I'll allow something like "gah-tai" would not be unreasonable, and is about what runs through my head anyway, to be honest. (Sorry!) I s'pose all of these choices are better than what some have called me in the past... 'Ghoti' becomes 'Ghetto' too easy. Or 'Gothi'. I get that one too.-Ghoti (pronounced "Sha vohn" _____________________
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01-11-2006 06:04
Never trust the spelling of a gaelic name. My name was originally spelled Meadbh, becuse I used the medieval spelling for recreation purposes, but no one could pronounce it so I changed it to the English Spelling which people still have a hard time with _____________________
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01-11-2006 06:07
For those of you into Johnny the Homicidal Maniac I like his nickname. Nny.
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01-11-2006 06:52
What did you name him? Odysseus? Nope. Jack. He was named after Kerouac and Pollock. The name is decidedly less exciting than "Odysseus" or "Ramses." (He thinks, however, that the song "Half Jack" by the Dresden Dolls is about him). Never trust the spelling of a gaelic name. My RL name, which is now fairly common (but wasn't in 196  , has the gaelic 'h' in it--Meghan (pronounced Sha-vaughn with the emphasis on the first syllable). I once knew a kid named Rufus. Who the frekk names their kid RUFUS? Well, Loudon Wainwright, for one. _____________________
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01-11-2006 07:16
-Ghoti (pronounced "Sha vohn" bahaha _____________________
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01-11-2006 07:24
My RL name, which is now fairly common (but wasn't in 196 , has the gaelic 'h' in it--Meghan (pronounced Sha-vaughn with the emphasis on the first syllable). Meghan without the "h" looks ugly. _____________________
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01-11-2006 08:41
My freshman year in college, the girl in the dorm room across from me was named Candace Cox. But she liked to go by Candy...
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01-11-2006 08:50
I went to school with Candy Barr.  Candy Barr, Porn Starr? P2 _____________________
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01-11-2006 08:51
 Ghoti is not mispronounced. It follows the rules of English just fine. Ghoti is pronounced "fish"... "gh" as pronounced in 'enough', "o" as in 'women', "ti" as in 'intuition'. -Ghoti Hey, like Abe Vigoda's character in Barney Miller?  _____________________
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01-11-2006 08:55
In Houston, Texas, many public spaces were endowed by "Ima Hogg" (no kidding). A number of years ago, I was a customer service rep for one of the major telecom companies, and we had an account for a pair of spinster ladies, who were twins, and still lived together (they were in their 80's at the time) whose names were Ima and Ura Hogg. P2 _____________________
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01-11-2006 09:10
All this "stupid name" talk makes me think it's about time to revamp my online name. Sure, it was cool to mess with alternative phoenetic spelling in 7th grade, but nobody prounounces it right anyway... (Example: Live commentary for the SL blades tournament I entered... I winced every time the commentator said my name.)
And I recently learned that even though I made up the word, it's an obscure kind of fish! As for RL stupid names? I know someone who wants to name her kids "Trinity" (attributed directly to The Matrix) and "Katahdin" (for a boy) after a mountain in Maine. I don't know about anyone else, but as a guy, how the hell do you escape a name like "Katahdin"? Have people call you "Kat"? Poor kid. |
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01-11-2006 09:14
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01-11-2006 09:14
Also, I recall a co-worker telling me a story about two guys he worked with (and who worked together...) "Yu" and "Hee".
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01-11-2006 09:50
I may be wrong on this but I believe that Penn from the duo Penn & Teller named his daughter Moxie Crimefighter.
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01-11-2006 09:55
ah-lee-ah-see That's how I pronounced it before I scrolled down and saw this _____________________
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01-11-2006 09:58
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01-11-2006 10:08
Holy cow, I just remembered that there was a girl I worked with about ten years ago whose name was "Heidi Mycock." What were her parents thinking? "Hm... There's no name that sounds like 'Where's,' so let's go with one that sounds like 'Hide.' " Yeah. She was cute, though.
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A variation
01-11-2006 10:40
Slightly less of a problem but also amusing variations on the above - be VERY careful with the initials as well as the actual forename...
1) there was a boy at school called Simon. Unfortunately for him, his surname was Trunks - so you can guess what he was nicknamed and how he was recorded for posterity in various places as "S. Trunks" but even better - 2) I met a man at a conference called Philip Niss. Nothing struck me as being odd until the names announcer nearly choked. He was reading out names as follows: "Mr J Doe", "Mr J Smith" and then.. "Mr P Niss"! The funniest thing is that this forty-year old had never gotten the joke with his name until then - HOW he managed to do so having (presumably) gone to school is beyond me *shudders to think what could/would have been done to a boy at my old school with that name* |
