A coworker of mine claims she worked with a man whose name was Harold Dyck, and his wife’s name was Anita. She also claimed he hated being called by the usual nickname for “Harold” for obvious reasons.
“Ab-sa-dee”
There’s a review of a novel today by a writer named Affinity Konar, which sounds like a small aerospace parts supplier.
I was working with a client a while back who was named Yumi Dong. It was pronounced with a long U, not like “yummy”, but my inner 12-year-old still found it funny.
That made me think of “Dr. Weiping Wang” (actual nane) and wondering if he ever treated any gonorrhea patients.
Over at Youtube, there’s a series of vids about an adorable, tow-headed little boy named
… wait for it … Frumpkin Love. Frumpkin. Who the fuck names their kid Frumpkin?
I encountered a person with the first name of Pornrat.
Hal?
I’ve edited your post how you wanted, Waltzes With Cacti.
Thank you, Idle Thoughts! I’m afraid I sent the request in twice; please ignore the 2nd one. I thought the 1st didn’t go through.
And apparently his last name is Love?
So it seems. I just can’t get over Frumpkin as a first name. It sounds like the name of a character that Dinklage or Warwick Davis would play.
Isn’t there a character named Frumpkin in Rugrats?
Doing some ancestry research last week I came across a relative a couple generations back named “Ruhama.” Never heard the name before; apparently it’s biblical.
Yeah, I saw a person with the first name “Zillion” the other day in one of ours. Had to double-check that one to make sure I’d seen it right.
When I first heard of Jhonny Peralta (then shortstop for the Cleveland Indians), I assumed someone had made a typo on his birth certificate and it stuck, but no. Apparently Jhonny is a name parents actually give out.
My son’s name is John. We call him Johnny. People ask us how to spell it. I used to try answering “Conventional spelling,” but that isn’t even meaningful for people under 35.
I expect him to go through a “Jack” phase when he is a teenager. People will probably ask how to spell that. Of course, given that he will be a teenager, who knows how he’ll want to spell it.
Interestingly enough, my name is Jonathan, and as a little kid I was also called Jonny, though spelled that way as there’s no h in Jonathan (well not there anyway). Apparently I came home from my first day at nursery school crying because I changed the sign on my cubby or desk and the teacher insisted I was misspelling my name.
That’s probably Thai.
In my old town, there was a medical resident named Dr. Seaman, and one of the other pharmacists, a married woman in her 30s, cracked up when she heard his name. :smack:
I mean, if people say “What’s his name?” and I answer “John, but we call him Johnny; conventional spelling,” that means one thing. Saying “Jonathan, but we call him Jonny; conventional spelling,” means something different. If I said “Gianni; Italian spelling,” I’d expect to still have to spell it, but a few people might know, and it would stop people from reflexively writing the wrong thing before I had a chance to spell it.
If I just tell people his name is “Johnny,” I say “Johnny with an H.” I occasionally get “Johhny,” but I’m sure that’s a brain cramp. So far, I have not gotten “Jhonny.”