My friend's cousin named her kid . . . CANNON. Like, goes BOOM.
Also? At my job, I put in contracts for band instrument rentals and the student's name has to be on the contract. Here are some spellings I've seen:
Camryn
LeighAyne
Camerin
Joseff
D'Anna (Deanna!!!)
Tiphanee
Jaykob
What the kriff, don't be a phonetic idiot.
I remember you going off about this before. Did I ever tell you about La-ah (pronounced Lә-DASH-uh)? True story.
Oh, I know. Talk to me when you come across a name with a dash in it. And you have to say it. "Dash."
La-a is pronounced Ladasha.
Never mind ~¿~
*cracks knuckles*
Ok, here we go. My autocorrect is going to hate me, and I'm going to completely wreck my phone's dictionary.
Now that we've covered La-a.
Let's start with this.
Yes, I've had a student named Seven.
Aanas and Anious. Just think of how those might be mispronounced.
Telica is pronounced Tuh-lee-see-uh. In case you were wondering.
I'm sorry I called you Jor-day-n on the first day of class, but don't get mad at me. Get mad at your mother. She's the one that spelled it Jordayn and not Jordan, like you want it pronounced.
It's Jacqueline. It's not Jack-uh-line (line!). Yes, somebody wanted their daughter to have her name pronounced Jack-uh-line.
I've had a Christ, Messiah, and God.
King and his sister Queen'ya (pronounced queen-yay).
I've had more Princes than I can count. Don't ever name your kid a title, because that's how they'll act, and they'll feel they're entitled to all the royal treatment allowed on earth.
And don't name them adjectives, either. Patience? Yeah, you're testing mine. Neveah (very common)? Yeah, this is going to be the reverse of Heaven, alright. Shewonderful? She ain't. Malus (pronounced malice) and Sassy? Actually, they were pretty good kids. I miss them.
I've had a Sir and a Syre (pronounced sire).
Aprell is not a good name for a boy. Period.
I've had a parent named Satin. Except it was spelled Satan. There was an awkward first phone call from another teacher in my school when she called asking asking to speak to Satan. No it wasn't me.
I know your name is Dexter, and your wife's name is Brittany, but that doesn't mean Dexttany is a good name. They're going to think she can't spell Destiny.
Sema'J (pronounced seh-mah-jay) is just James spelled backwards with a comma to the top (*wink wink, nudge nudge* Noctis). Just name him James.
And the one I got my first year of teaching...
Kalcjea is not how you spell Kalaysia.
And that's just what I can remember off the top of my head without doing any real thinking.
My cousin's boyfriend is named Aaron, but because of that bit on Key and Peele, we all call him A-aron.
Like I said, I don't mind unique names as long as there is a good reason or history.
I have an Ozell and Zelda in my family for instance.
You just reminded me, I had a great grandmother named Zelfa. One might think it was just a typo that was never corrected.
Have you ever written out a response to a post, well thought out, relevant, and fairly meaningful, and then deleted it because there was no point in posting it because it would go right over the head of the person it was directed to?
No, but every once in a while I'll type out a rather lengthy response to something and then accidentally hit "Show new replies" instead of "Post.
I remembered what I wanted to rant about yesterday.
Guys that have this absurd need to show off how ridiculously inadequate their manhood is by driving the biggest, loudest, polluting-est, POS truck they can get their hands on. I got stuck
2 kriffing blocks behind one of these #@$%heads the other day, and was still choking on the black cloud he left behind. I honestly wanted to catch up to him just so I could flip him off. Seriously. Just get a neon sign that declares that your anatomical inferiority is hopeless to please a woman.
