It’s usually pronounced “Leh-tish-a.”
Pronounced “Lah - tisha” (short “i”). Unless that was a whoosh.
I went to grade school with a kid named Brick Wahl. 
I knew a Greek kid whose middle name was Anal. He tried to tell us that it was pronounced “O’Neil,” but that’s not how his parents said it. I can’t remember how his last name was spelled, but it was pronounced “Ready.”
So yeah, I used to know a kid who was Anal Ready.
It’s always fun when parents try to name on a theme. A while back, I dealt with a mom who had two daughters, Ebokneah and Ivoreah. That’s “eh-bow-NEE-uh” and “eye-vo-REE-uh.” Ebony and ivory. And my memory’s not that great, but I could swear that one had a white father, and one a black father, which couldn’t have been planned any better.
But at the time I was working with them, they were not living together in perfect harmony.
My sister used to work with a foreign exchange student (Hungarian maybe?) named Dork. All was well until they were teasing each other and she said, “You’re such a dork!” He laughed it off but she was pretty embarrassed.
There’s always Gay Head.
Joe
The other day I took my niece and nephew to McDonalds and let them play in the kids area. All the while this other woman kept yelling for her two year old son. Over and over for about an hour.
Maximus.
The kid looked like a 2 year old version of the little blond kid from that christmas movie a ways back. All I could do was picture him as this fat dorky blond highschool nerd with glasses…
Maximus Dorkus
Maximus Geekus
Maximus Nerdius
Maximus Virginicus
You get the picture.
I was reading an interview with Martha Fiennes the other day.
Her children are called Titan, Hero and Mercy. :rolleyes:
Hero Fiennes will be playing Voldemort in Harry Potter.
Apparently nobody told Martha that Hero is, er, a girl’s name.
As for “Titan”, he’d better be at least 6ft 2in by the time he’s 14 if he doesn’t want to get the living shit kicked out of him.
There’s a newscaster in Chicago named Dick Johnson.
Always sounded redundant to me.
My favorite from the world of sports Ladies And Gentlemen, Meet Lucious Pusey
There’s a business analyst that the local news radio station quotes a lot named Hugh Johnson.
He admitted on one newscast, after a fluff story about joke names used in prank phone calls, that he sometimes has trouble when ordering pizza. (Now that I think about it, maybe that’s why I saw him picking up a pizza at a restaurant that does delivery? Less hassle with giving your CC if you’re in person and they can see it says “Dick Johnson” instead of giving that over the phone for a delivery order that gets run before the pizza goes out?)
Don’t forget his meteorologist colleague Pete Sack; sometimes they’re even on the same morning show together.
So, if it’s not too much of a hijack, why do you suppose guys named Richard allow themselves to become Dicks, as it were? It’s not like there aren’t any other choices for nicknames. Richard=Dick doesn’t even make much sense. I’ve always wondered.
Do they secretly enjoy the implications? Are they just trying to take ownership of the name, since they figure other people are already making the connection? What?
Dex explains the Richard/Dick connection. Now, as to why Richards continue to use the diminutive Dick, I have no idea. I’ve often wondered that myself.
Even diminutive dicks deserve to get used sometimes.
I knew a guy in HS who got a lot of crap about being named Dick. He went out of his way to get folks to switch to using Rick.
On the other side of that coin, allow me to introduce the Kid’s boyfriend: Dick.
The first time I met him was after a Sox game, with my friend and one of her friends having had three beer-filled hours to work up all our best lines. He met us (with her), and we unloaded. I gotta hand it to him, he took it all in good humor.
Later I found out that by the weirdest coincidence, his older sister and the neighbor across the street were old/best friends. One day I saw her across the street, wandered over and mentioned the connection - that my daughter was dating her friend’s brother. She says oh, who? I say Dick XXXXX.
She stares a second then says “oh, you mean Richard?”
Well, yeah I guess I do. She said she’s known him since he was a kid, and until he left high school and all she’s ever known him as was Richard. It was when he went to college that he decided to be a Dick.
True story.
Just for the fun of it – names given to babies born in my county in the last month or so:
Carmen
Mollie Jo
Jordan
Brycen (a boy)
Haylee
Meah Faye
Kaela
Yuditt
Zoey
Skylar
Ethan
Kayla
Hailey
Carter
Araceli
Two Kaylas, two Haleys, spelled differently.
Am I missing something? Other than the non-standard spelling of Mia, “Yuditt” which sounds like a traditional Jewish name to me, and “Araceli” which is uncommon but not weird (sounds like a surname converted to a given name) – none of those names are outlandish at all. And of course Bricen/Brycen is a boy’s name, isn’t it?
Neither of the Kayla or Hayley spellings are that yewnique either. 
Yuditt WHAT?