Anyone else wondering if 5-4-Fighting’s last name is Dursley?
If I ever have a daughter, I’m going to name her Sera, (pronounced “Sarah”). Why? Because my last name (Serum) has always struck me odd. I figure why not have a little fun with it?
For those of you who don’t get it…
“sera” is the plural of “serum.”
You, in the closet under the stairs, this instant!
Two things (and I say this as a Lindsay ;)). First, while Lindsa/ey isn’t a hugely popular name, I’ve actually met more Lindsays than Lindseys. Growing up, it always seemed that both spellings got equal play (to where I was always asked “is that a-y or e-y?”).
Second, I have to call you out on that last sentence because for some reason, lately every goddamn person wants to spell my name with the goddamned ‘e’. That never ever happened before about 5 years ago. Since Lohan spells it like me (and hell, Lindsay Wagner* does, too), I have no clue why the consensus seems to be assume that it’s spelled Lindsey.
- [sub]My namesake. My dad had a huuuuuge crush on the Bionic Woman. It could be worse. He first suggested that I be named Farrah. That wouldn’t date me at alllllll… [/sub]
The thing that got to me, most of all, was the “I don’t like what the person who contributed half my son’s genetic material wants to name him, so I’m going to punish my son” attitude. I have no children - and want none - but children are at least given two names. Couldn’t you compromise with the father without punishing your son for the rest of his life?
My given name is not unusual - Madeline - but it can be spelled so many ways I have stopped trying to count. I have never once received anything monogramed (including from the woman who wrote out my paychecks!) that had the correct spelling.
EDIT - I got a trophy from the Cottonmouths Booster Club that has the correct spelling. 
Since I got the trophy for being Corresponding Secretary and I give everything to the Prez in writing…
I do.
Cheers,
Brynda (with a y, blame my parents, not me)
I understand this. I was an overweight child, and got a bit of teasing and bullying. It was awful. But does a name usually provoke this level of bullying? Aren’t most bullies a bit more discriminating about the kids they really let have it? Usually awkward kids, “nerds”, overweight kids, insecure kids, etc.
I mean to say, if the only thing you are being teased about is your name, you probably have an opportunity to build a bit of a tougher skin.
Yeah. I am the big mouth type that would learn to speak up for myself regardless. But, it still seems to me that an unusual name is not a bad thing. Again, not just made up names with all kinds of crazy spellings. But names that have a meaning to the parents that happen to be unusual.
Creative name spelling leads to a life of explaining the correct spelling to third persons entering your details for any reason (a phone order ,Dr.s appointment etc.),ridicule from other kids at school who CAN spell and also leaves a lot of people thinking that your parents were either ignoramuses or immature.
Believe me I feel for those kids who have had to suffer from this.
In that case I hope you never,ever have kids ,it means that if you do actually have a daughter then she will have to put up with something that is , to me anyway, is not even remotely witty or amusing for her entire life .
I would imagine that after enduring the ridicule stage(and endlessly hearing her name mispronounced by others) for so many years and then the incredible irritation phase followed by the ,every time she heard it it was causing her mental torture phase (all because her father found it funny) then she would grow to hate you .
Rightly so in my opinion.
I am praying that you are actually joking and that I have just been wooshed!
Stickers like this or this, which I see all over the place now, annoy the hell out of me. I find them even more annoying when the kid has a “creative” name.
Having a hard-to-pronounce-and-spell surname, I’d assumed the same thing. Turns out that important stuff like job offers and financial matters also fall into that category. My parents aren’t to blame (in the same fashion, at least) for my surname and yet issues with its spelling caused a flag from the IRS over a tax return, among other problems. Needless to say, there are benefits in not being overly complicated with naming that you do have a choice in.
I compiled the list over several months so I can’t say what I was thinking at the time. It may have struck me as a variation of “Destiny” or somesuch. At any rate, given the number of little old Greek ladies in this town and the amount of Greek food I’ve enjoyed at Greek festivals, the name is hereby stricken from the list. “Channel” (did the parent mean “Chanel”?), however, stays!
My first married name (only married name, I kept my maiden name the second time around), had a space in it. To make matters worse, I’d moved my maiden name to what I’d hoped would be seen as a second middle name. This funtionally gave me five words in my legal name - Christina Ann Maiden von Last - and caused about four years of bueaurocratic nightmare. Sometimes my last name would be filed under Maiden von Last. Sometimes I was von Last, and sometimes I was Last.
My son has two middle names and the experience I had made me question whether I REALLY wanted to burden him in such a fashion. But he is a Korean adoptee, so his second middle name was his birth family name (and he has one of the “easy in English” common Korean family names) and we felt it important to honor that.
In the past I’ve had my name misquoted as “Chanel”, or even worse as “Chantelle” instead of my real name - Sionell.
I think you should go for the real knee slapper and give her the first name “Que”. For added giggles you could spell it “Che”.
Ah, Major Major Major’s dad’s psychic twin.
I can’t count the number of certificates, etc. I have with my name spelled wrong on them. The one that I couldn’t let stand was my marriage certificate, though. You know, woman who officiates weddings for a living, you might want to look into actually reading the names before you type them up on the legal, binding, official document. I had to go back to her, of course, and get it re-done so that I could get my name changed properly on every other piece of identification I own. :mad:
Heh - I read that as “psychotic twin” at first.
Don’t you just need to know the “M” to get a monogram correct?