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07-09-2008, 08:52 AM
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A friend who taught high school for a while informed me that he intended to name his son "Randall" but intended to spell it "Geoffrey". He had so many students with names that were pronounced in a way that totally ignored the spelling that he thought he would join the trend. (Actually, he named and calls his son Huntley).
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07-09-2008, 09:08 AM
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I'm a teacher and there are definitely kids that I have had that have ruined names for me (some of them I would never pick in the first place...)...here are kids I'll never parent:
Boys:
Nick
Gregory
Jermaine
Paris
Tyrese
Barnabas
Girls:
Crystal
Skylar
Asshole (yes, you read that correctly...pronounced Ah-shoal-lee)
Ayanna
Tamaya
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Last edited by WhiteDaisy128; 07-09-2008 at 09:09 AM.
Reason: one more name...
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07-09-2008, 09:25 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiteDaisy128
Asshole (yes, you read that correctly...pronounced Ah-shoal-lee)
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poor child. poor, poor child.
I've heard of Shithead [pronounced shi-THEED], but never Asshole.
I may have to add that to my arsenal of names to use when I'm irritated, but don't really want people to know the extent of my irritation.
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07-09-2008, 09:35 AM
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My BF and I were just having this conversation!
Names that make me shudder:
Josh
Jorge
Sergei
Anthony
Brittany
Sheldon
Mikhail
Mason
Sean
Tim
Dana
Kaitlyn
Keya
Zack
Gilbert
And those are just the kids from this past year...
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07-09-2008, 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by TrueBlueKappa
My BF and I were just having this conversation!
Names that make me shudder:
Josh
Jorge
Sergei
Anthony
Brittany
Sheldon
Mikhail
Mason
Sean
Tim
Dana
Kaitlyn
Keya
Zack
Gilbert
And those are just the kids from this past year...
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Sergei? Mikhail? Where are you teaching?
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07-09-2008, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
Sergei? Mikhail? Where are you teaching?
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There are parts of the country that have many immigrants or ethnic groups from eastern Europe. Example: we had, like, zero african american kids in my schools when I was growing up, but we had many asian kids and some russian/romanian/ukrainian kids.
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07-09-2008, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
Sergei? Mikhail? Where are you teaching?
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Florida, actually!
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07-09-2008, 01:11 PM
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I was a camp counselor while in college and the following names still make me shudder (I only had girl campers, so no bad boy names):
Shaina
Olga
Jennifer
Natalie
Megan
I did have two campers that were awesome and totally changed my opinion of their names- Mariam and Sari. I thought they were both rather old-fashioned sounding, but the kids were so great that to this day I still like the names!
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07-09-2008, 01:12 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by greekchef
A friend who taught high school for a while informed me that he intended to name his son "Randall" but intended to spell it "Geoffrey".
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Hahahaha!!!
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