# Weird, pretentious, or bizarre names...

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 26, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-pretentious-or-bizarre-names/696566 "2014-08-26T16:34:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-pretentious-or-bizarre-names/696566/43 "2014-08-27T06:43:43Z")

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A writer’s first name is “Icess”. [Here’s how she “explained” it to someone](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/04/starbucks-write-names-correctly?commentpage=1).

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> “I-c-e-s-s. You know like the goddess, but spelled like ice”, I explained.
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> “What?” she asked again.
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> Maybe she needed another reference. Here’s a popular one: “The cartoon? Oh, Mighty Isis?”
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> Silence and a farrowed eyebrow.

Actually, “Icess” looks like “female ice” to me.

And what the heck is a “farrowed eyebrown”? Maybe she meant “furrowed brow”. Some writer.

It’s one thing to have a “creative” name. It’s quite another to blame other people’s difficulty with it on THEM.

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