Sweet baby Jesus, that’s bad.
You sure he wasn’t pranking you?
(snerk)
Sarabellum1976, yes, sadly, I’m sure. The context he was talking about them in made it easily verifiable. And we have another to add to the group: Rosaleagh. He has two more as well; anyone want to guess what they might be??
Let me grab the Scrabble set and play letter toss. I’m sure I’ll be in the ballpark.
Upchuck and Barf?
Emmaleagh, and Meyh.
If there’s yet another, it’ll be Aimeagh or Joohne. A boy will Ahwgoost.
Lol, sorry about that, shoulda warned ya. You gotta watch out for that Tonypa, all of his games are addictive. I believe one of his games was the topic of a recent XKCD, although it isn’t explicitly stated. (“Those dang tiles!”)
But … but, that would be pronounced, “Slash Luh dash uh Slash.”
Err… not saying that someone’s bullshitting, but isn’t Ladasha pretty much the same thing as Oranjello and Lemonjello in the realm of apocryphal names?
I’ll play: Salleagh and Molleagh 
or possibly Dolleagh?
Khylleagh and Mighleagh.
Ladashalleeagggh.
I let my son’s father pick his name (with veto rights for me.) So now when people ask me if Wolfgang was named for Mozart, I have to tell them no, he was named for Wolfgang Van Halen.
(Cute story I may have already told: the first day Wolfgang went to kindergarten – along with two or three Destinaes and a couple of Dontays – his teacher asked the class for words beginning with “H.” She went around the room … “house,” “hippo,” “horsey.” Wolfgang said, “hologram.” I blame Math Blaster, hee hee)
On the plus side, the number of three-letter words that include the letter “X” in my vocabulary has now increased by 1700%.
I know of an Othello - the mother never read the play, just liked the sound of the name. I taught a girl named Catalina; I think it sounds pretty, but I always just thought of the salad dressing.
My biggest pet peeve is strange spellings that you are not likely to pronounce correctly, like a girl in my class named Erykah (pronounced Erica)
My other irritation is names like Angel and Precious. I call my girlfriend my Angel, and I just cannot bring myself to call some random woman at work the same. And having to say things like “Precious! Get your finger out of your nose!” or “For the tenth time, don’t hit your sister, Precious!” really get to me. Terms of endearment should never be used in an angry or frustrated tone
How would you pronounce that other than Erica? It makes me think of Erykah Badu.
With an odd emphasis, so it sounds like “Eureka!” I always want there to be a reason for the odd spelling, so I want it to be pronounced unlike whatever mundane name it actually is.
I know some short-sighted parents think they are making their child special by spelling “Kelly” “Khelleagh,” but they make the child special in the wrong way, in that a roomful of these kids is a teacher’s nightmare.
It’s unfair for parents to expect people to remember five different ways to spell something, and which spelling goes with which child. There’s a reason names, like any word, have conventional spellings. Moreover, it’s been my experience that parents who do this (Erykah, Khelleagh) get really annoyed when you mispronounce a name, or don’t remember the spelling immediately. The parents are not the ones who should be annoyed.
Ha, an acquaintance was complaining one day that her friend had misspelled her son’s name* on an invitation, and all I could think was " No, you misspelled his name. She got it right." Expecting everyone else to remember that you made up a new spelling for a common name is stupid. If you want the kid’s name spelt right, spell it the most common way and complain all you like when people get that wrong.
- Vowel substitution. Similar to spelling Brendan “Brenden.” Some stupid justification that made no sense was behind it: “I don’t want people nicknaming him Danny”. I’ve literally never met a Brendan who goes by Danny, and even if that’s really a thing, is Denny so different?
Heck, I can misspell people’s names even when it’s a common spelling. I have a nephew named Philip or Phillip, I never can remember which.
I knew a girl named Lovie. That’s not a nickname, it’s her real name. When I first met her, and people addressed her by name, it weirded me out a little, because it sounded like they were trying to be overly affectionate to her by calling her a term of endearment. Though I did get used to it.
I can never remember if my nephew is Eliot, Elliot, Elliott or Eliott.