So I’ve been watching Canadian Idol, just 'cus I’m that kind of girl.
They’ve narrowed the field to 30 and the first 10 competitors went tonight.
Well, girl number ten, who had a really super voice, and managed to belt out “I will always love you.” well enough to give Witney a run for her money, has the unfortunate name of…
I’d heard the name before, but always really, really hoped it was the female version of Candide, as in the book by Voltaire. (Not that I’ve ever heard the name Candide outside of that.)
A quick Googling gives: “Derived from Latin ‘canditia’ meaning “white”. This was the name of an early saint who was supposedly healed by Saint Peter.”
Candida is a pretty common spanish name, well maybe not pretty common but its not that rare. Candida means “candid” while referring to a female in spanish.
Well, it’s better than being named “Chlamydia.” Sounds like an urban legend to me, but several people I know claim to have been working at the UK med center when a woman named her baby that.
I was told by a woman who swore it was true, that she taught a girl in Houston (or maybe Dallas) named Diarrhea. She said she tried to pronounce it “Dee-airy-a” or some such, but was corrected by the girl who insisted, “no, it’s Die-a-REE-uh!”
I have a friend who SWEARS she taught with a woman whose first name was Female, FEM-ah-lee, so named because when they brought her mother the birth certificate, she said, “Oh, look, they already picked out a pretty name for her!”
She also said that Female had taught two girls named Syphillis (Sih-FI-lis) and Gonorrhea (Goh-NOR-ea), but I do question that. Although we ARE talking about Miami…
I have definitely seen a few Chardonnays, Tequilas (usu. spelled phonetically) and even a Merlot in the birth announcement column of the paper. I went to school with a Rainbow Hart and her sister Summer, and another girl named Tuesday.