[HPforGrownups] OT: Weird Names
Rebecca Boswell
rboswell at mediaone.net
Mon Feb 12 22:26:44 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 12122
Speaking of weird names...I knew a girl named Asshole pronounced ASH-ho-lay.
--Becca
----- Original Message -----
From: "Meredith Wilson" <aviationoutreachcoord at museumofflight.org>
To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 10:12 AM
Subject: RE: [HPforGrownups] OT: Weird Names
> And I thought the twins my dad went to school with were bad - Syphillis
> (pronounced sih-FIL-us) and Gonorrhea (pronounced guh-NOHR-ee-uh)!
>
> Meredith, who also knew of a set of twins named Orangejello and Lemonjello
> pronounced like the pair we read about before. Hoo-boy... some people.
>
>
> ** Yeah, these names are bad and all, but my mom (former
> ** preschool director)
> ** had a student whose name spelled Sh*thead, but pronounced
> ** Sha-they-id.
> **
> **
> ** >
> ** >--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Nathan" <duo at d...> wrote:
> ** > >
> ** > > peaking of weird names, I have a friend named Baryon Tensor. His
> ** >older
> ** > > brother is Agham Bayan which means Science Nation. And
> ** his twin kid
> ** >brothers
> ** > > are Hector Atom and Vector Ion.
> ** > > Yes, their parents are experimental physicists of great
> ** renown here.
> ** >
> ** >My mother, in her years of teaching elementary school, has
> ** come across
> ** >some real all-stars. For instance (and I swear to God these
> ** are real):
> ** >"Damage" (pronounced Dah-MAH-jay)
> ** >"Female" (pronounced Feh-MAH-lee)
> ** >...and my personal favorite...
> ** >"Canine" (pronounced Ka-NEEN)
> ** >Parents aren't exactly rocket scientists (or experimental
> ** physicists,
> ** >for that matter).
> ** >-Mike
> ** >
> **
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