Posted on 03/28/2014 12:08:12 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
It took me years to like my weird name, which - now that I'm 35 - isn't all that weird anymore. But growing up in a sea of Stephanies, Lauras, Lisas, Jennifers, and Jessicas, I longed for a normal name.
Life with a weird name was rough as a kid. (It's not that much easier as an adult; I've just gotten used to it.)
And while I appreciate the diversity of names, a little part of me cringes inside when I hear a parent call to their daughter, Anais. Her life is going to be tough.
Don't people know this by now? Don't parents know that their desire for uniqueness is going to make their kid's life annoying?
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Like the Middle English letter "yogh"? Also known as "long y"? Sounds like a "y" that you make in the back of your throat?
I bet your friends call you Steve.
Don’t forget his sun Fuk Yu II.
High school algebra teacher told us about a pair of brothers who attended the school years earlier. Benjamin and Stanley. Dover.
He said they had a sister named Eileen. We confirmed the boys names in the old yearbooks, but being an all male school never did confirm the sister.
As a high school teacher I have come across my fair share of weird names. Two years ago, I had a 9th grade girl called “Spontaneous”. I can’t imagine where her mother got that name.
I have 4 out of 7.
I forgot about a local black girl named Placenta.
When I was expecting I had somebody tell me that I shouldn’t give my children unusual names because children with unusual names grow up socially maladjusted and never really fit in. Right, great thing to tell a person with an unusual name. So, after I told her my name, I told her I’d name my children anything I wanted.
That's odd, cause I was watching "Buck Wild" on MTV and I ran across Sue Perr Hicks.
“Like the Middle English letter “yogh”? Also known as “long y”? Sounds like a “y” that you make in the back of your throat? “
I don’t know as I’m having a hard time making that sound. People who attempted to say the name invariably produced a hard “g” sound like “gird.” That’s how we realized nobody could hear it. It’s like trying to get a Japanese to day L. The pronounce it R. Reray...that thing that shunts electricity also known as a relay.
We don’t go to Starbucks, but Hubby uses made up names when we’re in establishments that ask for your name, just to see the looks on peoples’ faces when the staff call the name out. Warped sense of humor. One of the things I love about him.
Ha!!
My sister’s married name is Polish and about 18 letters long. She jokes it’s Polish for Smith.
My name is alliterative.
Very difficult for people to pronounce my first and last name and compounded if they know my middle name.
I just make fun of my name and speel it out.
I had a friend named Wayne that in all those type of situations gave the name Lazlo. He just liked the ring of it, and he knew there wouldn’t be any other Lazlos in the room.
He should have been pissed that his Yankee dad couldn’t spell ‘Kennesaw’.
I knew a Justin Case.
A kid in school recently had the name:
“La-a”
Everyone mispronounced and the mother got very irate. Believe it or not, it’s pronounced:
“Lah-dash-uh”
I kid you not.
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