Christmas and Stupid Names.

[Padge]

We are getting pe'ed off with relatives who give their kids names with stupid spellings, all of a sudden you have to try and remember is it with a Y or an I a Z or an S.

If you give your kid a stupid name, don't be effin offended if we get it wrong.

Rant over.

 

 

[DavidM]

I’m sure I saw a story from ( yes you guessed it ) America where a woman got offended by cabin crew on a flight sniggering or something at her daughters name ...ABCDE . I mean what’s strange about that ?

[Just Browny]

25 minutes ago, Padge said:

We are getting pe'ed off with relatives who give their kids names with stupid spellings, all of a sudden you have to try and remember is it with a Y or an I a Z or an S.

If you give your kid a stupid name, don't be effin offended if we get it wrong.

Rant over.

 

 

I'd like to know the story that led to this post.

[gazza77]

It's nowt new. How do you spell Steven? Stephen? Jeff or Geoff? Louis or Lewis? Plenty of names can be inadvertently misspelt. 

[Phil]

I went to school with members of the Farnell family, the lad was called Thane, a bit unusual but fair enough. The girls were called Tjarda, Terenga, Turina and Teresca, their mom and dad were called Bob and Marjorie 

[Futtocks]

1 hour ago, gazza77 said:

It's nowt new. How do you spell Steven? Stephen? Jeff or Geoff? Louis or Lewis? Plenty of names can be inadvertently misspelt. 

My brother-in-law is called Stewart. I wasn't sure at first if it was Stewart or Stuart, but then my niece started calling him Stew-Rat, which solved the problem for me.

[ckn]

My friend’s daughter is called Kathryn, his mum is Catherine and his gran is called Katherine. 

[Copa]

My friend was named Jesus. He isn’t Mexican or Spanish either.

It’s pronounced exactly like an English speaker would say the name of the bible guy.

It causes all sorts of uncomfortable moments when we tell people to speak to Jesus or even if we just call out to him when others are around. 

He’s totally cool with it.

 

[Wiltshire Rhino]

 

[DaveButt]

I get sick of people spelling my name wrong as well. its  D A V E not I D I O T

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[moorside roughyed]

Some people do call their kids some truly horrific names, someone who I know has just named their daughter "Sunshine",yes you read it right. This poor sod has to grow up with this and have the embarrassment of shouting your name out aloud to come in for tea.

[Wiltshire Rhino]

41 minutes ago, moorside roughyed said:

...the embarrassment of shouting your name out aloud to come in for tea.

Kids don't play outside anymore 

[JohnM]

Some countries have naming laws: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_law#Germany

[Northern Eel]

50 minutes ago, Wiltshire Rhino said:

Kids don't play outside anymore 

Not since they've been called all these daft names, anyway.

[M j M]

I remember Doug Laughton writing about Marcus Vassilakopoulos in his Leeds programme notes in the early/mid 90's saying he'd taken the trouble to learn how to pronounce and spell his name because it's not much to ask. It may not mean a lot to him to get it right but it does mean a bit when you get it wrong. 

Like other bits of Doug's cod philosophy that's stuck with me a bit (I'm also now an inveterate nose picker). But even if we think the name is dumb it's not hard, once a year, to give the person enough thought to get it right.

[Padge]

 

7 hours ago, Johnoco said:

I think Padge is referring to the habit of people calling their daughter (say) Kloe and getting shirty when people might use the name Chloe.

As opposed to the Stewart/Stuart thing

I think you might be right John.

[moorside roughyed]

6 hours ago, Wiltshire Rhino said:

Kids don't play outside anymore 

Good point

[gingerjon]

1 hour ago, Padge said:

 

I think you might be right John.

I always have to have a second email address at work so that people who can't be bothered to check the spelling of my name still get their emails directed to where they want to go.

[Bleep1673]

22 hours ago, DaveButt said:

I get sick of people spelling my name wrong as well. its  D A V E not I D I O T

I get sick of people spelling my name wrong as well. It's DAVID.

My Daughter is Leilani, my step-daughter is Ayiesha (fair enough), her two son's are Brylan, and Pylon (no kidding)

[DavidM]

Aussie rugby always produces some cracking names and ones from left field. The academy team just gone had a few belters in it . Bradman Best was a corker 

[graveyard johnny]

I simply call most youngsters all the same name,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, al leave it at that.