I dunno, but you may have heard of musician Bruce Cockburn.
Really liked the song and I heard the pronunciation before I saw the spelling. A little surprising…
That pronunciation rubs me the wrong way.
Jakscht plus he’s guilty of manslaughter so there is that.
All is made clear here.
A quick google search also yields Iona Beerwagon.
Johnson is the most common surname in the USA, Wang is the most common name in China, and thats not mentioning the tens of millions of Chinese surnamed Dong.
The Germans can’t laugh either, what with all the people over there named Weiner.
When I was in grade school there were twins with the last name Cocke, which they pronounced like the drink (or drug,if you will). Around sixth grade we got a new student whose last name was spelled the same way.The teachers, either because they were used to the other girls’ name or because they didn’t want to be offensive,would always say her name as “coke” to which she would vehemently shout “it’s COCK!”
I remember a kid with the last name “Tucci” who pronounced it “tushy”.
I suppose a kid can’t help what name they’re born to but when you’re given an easy out, take it for Pete’s sake!
Sumner Pecker shopped in the supermarket where I used to work.
The Badcocks have a furniture store chain where I used to live.
I work with a Butts.
My nephew felt that way about the name Gaylord. “Really? That’s a real name?” I was well known for teasing him, so he didn’t believe me until I showed him a town named Gaylord on a map.
I very seriously dated a guy whose last name was Raper. I don’t know…I wasn’t wild about my maiden name but had things gone better for us and ended in marriage I think I might have kept the maiden name.
I went to college with a girl who had the worst, weirdest Polish (or some other eastern European) name. She went through life spelling and pronouncing it and raging about how people always turned it into something silly, and then she married a guy named Bonk and–yep, she remained a Krycztqansowerfd or whatever it was.
And then there were the Bonar kids. There is really nothing you can do with a first name that will complement a last name like Bonar. (Not too many ways to pronounce it, either.) But let me just say that Merry and Randy were not good choices.
Also, if my name were Christian V. Lyons I would either spell out the middle name or eliminate the middle initial. But he didn’t.
If you parents are named Trickle and they name you Dick, just be thankful your middle name isn’t SyphiliticWhoremonger, cause that’s the direction they seem to be taking.
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I kind of admire the originality of that name, even while it’s embarrassingly ridiculous.
I’ll see you your top-card billing at the Coliseum and raise you a Christian Wright.
We often said he should sue them for copyright infringement.
The computer system at my old job provided endless amusement regarding customer last names. What I remember off the top of my head:
Cocagne (pronounced cocaine, not cocagney)
Bong
Udischas (not interesting, but someone had changed the first name in the system to “Magically”)
My mother dated a guy in high school whose last name was Shew. Not bad unless your first name is Jim.
I’m descended from a Fanny Fuchs. IIRC, she did end up going with the change to Fox.
My entirely innocuous one is: any name that begins with ‘S’, as mine does. I hope to marry someone whose name doesn’t and change my name accordingly. It’s not because I’m prejudiced against snakes or have a lisp, only because there is a name more common than mine that sounds exactly like my name + ‘s’, and I can’t introduce myself as Firstname Lastname without people thinking that’s my name.
Death
Coffin
Horz
Hickey
Weiner (I knew one whose first name was Oscar, his middle name wasn’t Meyer)
Lewinsky
I would love to marry a Smith, Jones, anything common.
I ran across the name Rayphole
Growing up with that as your last name, from fourth grade on every kid in your school is going to be calling you “Rape-Hole.”
Was it supposed to be ray Fole-ee?
I knew a family named Krapp, who changed it for the children’s sake. Older relatives were grossly indignant at the family insult. There’s someone in gardening with a name like Backhouse, but its pronounced Ba-ckou’-sie.