ArchietheDragon
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Oct 21, 2014 15:50:02 GMT -5
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Pants
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Post by Pants on Oct 21, 2014 15:53:29 GMT -5
I was going to go the other way & ask how many people have this name. Both my mom & BFF have dealt with someone with this name & have the same story about the pronunciation. And yet there are strangely zero people in the united states with said legal name according to the SSA. Weird.
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Angel!
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Post by Angel! on Oct 21, 2014 16:04:03 GMT -5
I was going to go the other way & ask how many people have this name. Both my mom & BFF have dealt with someone with this name & have the same story about the pronunciation. And yet there are strangely zero people in the united states with said legal name according to the SSA. Weird. I just tried to search for it in the SS baby names, but it wouldn't let me search for anything that had non-alphabetic characters. So
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Firebird
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Post by Firebird on Oct 21, 2014 16:12:41 GMT -5
I remember La-a from my name thread awhile back. That one kinda blew my mind.
Let's not forget about the lovely Chlamydia!
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Sam_2.0
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Oct 21, 2014 18:09:45 GMT -5
Maybe the writer of "colon" is from a Hispanic background? The surname "Colo`n" sounds very similar to cologne when spoken.
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Malarky
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Post by Malarky on Oct 21, 2014 18:20:30 GMT -5
That survey pegged where I grew up perfectly too. Which is interesting because neither of my parents are from here, and apparently their phrases didn't rub off on me. Especially my dad - he still calls coke "soda pop". He was visiting a few months ago and commented that when he was younger ketchup was both spelled and pronounced catsup, and now it's changed. I wonder what that survey would do with military brats who've lived in multiple places. Angel, how else would you pronounce fraking? I live in MA. I was born here. I spent 10 years in NH. Middle school and high school. If I take a quiz, you can figure out I was born North Shore and live MetroWest. But if you hear me talk, no one knows where I'm from. Apparently I don't flash my "wicked awesome" enough! Plus I use all the letters in the words-including the "r"s. Does the "r" need an apostrophe or not? Grammar nazis?
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Malarky
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Post by Malarky on Oct 21, 2014 18:23:42 GMT -5
My daughter came to me one day when she was about 10 with a piece of paper that had about 25 letters strung together. It included at least a couple of "q's" and "z's". She informed me that it was her name. I told her, "How do we pronounce it?" She said, "Kelly." I told her that while she was welcome to spell her name anyway that she wanted, the problem that I saw was that no one would look at the combination of letters and come up with that pronunciation. She was bummed but got over it and continued to spell her name in the more "conventional" way. I heard of a woman named Ladasha. It was spelled like this: La-a Does she work at Walmart? <<Malarky slinks back into the corner because that was so unnecessary...>>
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 21, 2014 19:25:50 GMT -5
Well, she didn't gradjewate from an Ivory Leeg Colledge and probably won't win the No Bell Piece Prize, but that's no reason to put her down. Gud speling is for Intel-Actuals.
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teen persuasion
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Post by teen persuasion on Oct 21, 2014 21:41:14 GMT -5
On a slightly different note, DS4 got tripped up today in AP English. He was doing a presentation on a woman who had dressed as a man a nd served in the Revolutionary war. Later, when they had discovered she was a woman, they did not want to pay her the full pension she'd earned, and put her on the Invalid Pension List. She had been wounded at some point. DS4 assumed the word meant not valid (they didn't want to pay her since she was a woman), and pronounced it that way. The teacher stopped him and told him it should be pronounced the other way - meaning injured or disabled. He was thoroughly confused at the time, since he hadn't considered the disabled angle, just saw not valid and to him it fit.
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nutty
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Post by nutty on Oct 23, 2014 8:58:32 GMT -5
I didn't get the lewbtottoms either.
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swamp
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Post by swamp on Oct 23, 2014 9:00:14 GMT -5
Last night DH wrote a complaint about a pre-Madonna at work.
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nutty
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Post by nutty on Oct 23, 2014 9:04:38 GMT -5
Many, many people do not pronounce my first name correctly. It is because of a similar name here.
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