That should be over here. Thais routinely mispronounce Hugh as “Huge.” (I discovered this when “Huge Grant” became popular over here after Four Weddings and a Funeral.)
Wait a minute! Is your BIL in northern Indiana? Because I bought a car from a Dick Swisher up there years ago.
“Randy Ecrement, former player at UA and founder of the page joined the Sam Bourquin Show to talk about what the program means to him and what it means to others.”
I still laugh at the name Daisy Cowit. What are the odds she would drive her car into a herd of cows?
My highly respected ophthalmologist has the last name of Blinder.
A place I worked years ago had a (male) elevator operator with the first name of Darling. The elevator mechanic (also male) loved to greet him in front of unsuspecting people with a friendly “Hello, Darling”.
Jacques Tits: French mathematician best known for the Tits Alternative, Tits Buildings, and the Kneser–Tits Conjecture.
I’m still hopeful that retired hockey player Miroslav Šatan will someday adopt a Mexican boy named Jesús.
I bet I’d have shown more interest in Math if I had known about Tits.
one of our customer’s last name is Enisporn.
yes I am 13 years old mentally.
Lord’s cricket ground was once curated by a man named either Mick or Michael Hunt. Not Mike, obviously.
I once heard of a medical clinic that employed Dr. White and Dr. Wong. That may be apocryphal too.
I know a set of twins, Noemi and Zora. Not unfortunate like some of the names in this thread, but everyone calls Noemi “Naomi” and everyone calls Zora Zozo, which just sounds unfortunate. What were their parents thinking?
Back when I was practicing criminal law, two of my repeat customers were identical twin brother of each other with identical names. Mistaken identity was always pleaded.
I work with Peter Johnson. Took me two months to realize how hilarious his name is.
Not as bad as a couple of sets of twins I’ve heard of. My uncle and his wife saw fit to name their twins Trevor and Travis. This did cause some difficulty with getting the right name out.
Worse, though, would be a delivery guy I was acquainted with while working in a 7-11. He and his wife chose to name their twins Trevin and Kevin. Rhyming names are excessively cutesy as it is, especially on twins, but concocting a “creative” one just to HAVE the rhyme?
A client of ours apparently named her (one) daughter Kateandashley. As in Olsen. Both of them.
When I was a teenager, I worked as a YMCA camp counselor. Two the campers were named Fountain Green and Narvis Nanette.
What’s wrong with Zora (Slavic) or Zohra (Perso-Arabic)? Perfectly good name. Zora Neale Hurston. Zohra Sehgal.
Makes you wonder whether they waited until he could talk to choose a name.
There used to be an S.T. Tampon in the Cambridgeshire telephone book.
Larcenia Bullard, the late Florida senator…she gave pleasure to millions, not just because of her name, but she was the “animal husbandry” lady. I still smile when I think of it.
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I was in the classroom for 17 years, so I saw some doozies: Lenger, Nemesis, Nimsi, Ehgmma (pronounced edge-ma), Lyndon Johnson II (seriously, that was his name), and my favorite, Lucky Seven. The second.
Oh, and through my own kids, I know an Anakin and a kid whose first name is Jedi…last name is Masters. JEDI. MASTERS.
I also knew a family that named their kids after musical terms–Cadence (okay, that works), Allegra (um…), and Adagio. Ummmm…adagio means SLOW. A synonym for it is ritardo. You really want to name your kid that?