Names spelt strange ways

[O'Dib]

Funny you guys should bring up Dennis the Menace. I won a bet that entitles me to name my sister's forthcoming baby boy. I need ideas: what's a good international sounding middle name for Dennis? Mind you, it will be spelled Denis.

I want his initials to be able to sub for a nickname. So maybe another name that starts with a D.. for Dee Dee? (No malicious intent involved)

 

[RoJoHen]

Ah, I see. I never read the Dennis the Menace comics. I only watched the cartoon when I was little.

 

[MarianLH]

99 times out of 100, unless I spell it out, people will spell my name Marion. People have done it here, at TrekBBS, despite seeing the correct spelling right there on the screen. Admittedly, Marion is the more common spelling, but still....

I want his initials to be able to sub for a nickname. So maybe another name that starts with a D.. for Dee Dee? (No malicious intent involved)

Dale, Dante, Darnell, Dabney, Daryl, Day, Decker, Duncan, Dunn, Dewey, Dieter....


Marian

 

[Brian]

Dee Dee sounds like a girl's name. How about D.B.?

Bryson, or something else that has to be spelled out for everyone.

Or D.J.?

Jamiroquai?

 

[O'Dib]

I guess, but my main reference was Dee Dee, the Ramones' bass player-guy.

Another option I considered was having one that starts with Du as first, and Dennis as middle. So that he could, theoretically, go by the Du.De. as well.

But you're right, it's unconventional, but something like D. K. (or just plain Dick) could work as well.. I feel crushed by the responsibility!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I guess, but my main reference was Dee Dee, the Ramones' bass player-guy.

You're aware that wasn't his real name, right?

 

[O'Dib]

Next you'll tell me that's not their real last name either.

 

[Brian]

Another option I considered was having one that starts with Du as first, and Dennis as middle. So that he could, theoretically, go by the Du.De. as well.

"Doody"?

That kid will grow up and put a hit out on you!

 

[O'Dib]

The Dude, maaan!

 

[scotpens]

Ah, I see. I never read the Dennis the Menace comics. I only watched the cartoon when I was little.

Before that, there was a Dennis the Menace TV sitcom starring Jay North. Wonder what ever happened to him.

99 times out of 100, unless I spell it out, people will spell my name Marion. People have done it here, at TrekBBS, despite seeing the correct spelling right there on the screen. Admittedly, Marion is the more common spelling, but still....

Marian is the more usual spelling for a girl. Marion can be either sex. John Wayne's real name was Marion Michael Morrison. People made lots of jokes about that -- but not to his face!

 

[Brian]

According to Wiki...

Finding himself forever typecast as "Dennis the Menace," North quit acting and joined the Navy in the 1970s. An avid hockey fan, he was a season-ticket holder of the Los Angeles Kings in the mid-1970s. North became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in April 1978, while he was serving aboard a ship home-ported in Norfolk, Virginia. He was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1979.

He was a prison guard in Florida for many years and is now a corrections officer in Lake Butler, Florida, where he has lived since 1989. He also provides counseling to child entertainers in the child-actor advocacy group, A Minor Consideration.

...

In a 1999 interview, North was quoted as saying, "Goodbye, Hollywood. Thanks for nothing."

 

[Miss Chicken]

If I remember correctly Jay North also stayed in a TV series called "Maya" when he was a teenager. He, and an Indian boy, travelled accord India on an elephant called Maya, looking for someone (his father, perhaps?). I quite like the show but I didn't realise that the star was "Dennis the Menace" until my mother told me as he had dark hair iby then nstead of blonde.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

I worked in a bar with a girl whose surname was Paradise, suddenly I felt not as special ~ and it was not 'that kind of bar' although if it had been we wouldn't have had to make up names

Relative of Salvatore "Sal" Paradise, the narrator of On the Road?

Yes! ~ Second cousin, twice removed from her Grandmother's fifth marriage to the brother-in-law of the second son, by adoption, of his Great Grandfather! Of course they don't talk now after the business with the Great Aunt and the Gardener

 

[scotpens]

If I remember correctly Jay North also stayed in a TV series called "Maya" when he was a teenager. He, and an Indian boy, travelled accord India on an elephant called Maya, looking for someone (his father, perhaps?).

Yes, I vaguely remember that show. They gave the elephant all the best lines.

 

[Kibbin]

Shakespeare
Shake-speare
Shakspeare
Shaxberd
Shakespere
Shakespear
Shak-speare
Shakspear
Shakspere
Shaksper
Schaksp.
Shakespheare
Shakespe
Shakspe

All spellings of the Bard's name that saw print between around the time when he started writing and his death. link

If I recall, the only spelling he didn't use is Shakespeare, but don't quote me on that.

My real name is Stacey, spelled the masculine way.

I didn't realise there was a masculine form of Stacy but then again I didn't know Jane could be a girls name


(yes that was a Firefly referecne, yes I know it's spelt Jayne)

^ Yes, i guess that's why people always asked me what Randi was short for. Randy was short for Randolf, so my name had to be a nickname for something else.

Imagine my surprise when backpacking across Europe people would snicker at my name. I had no idea that 'randy' had other definitions over there.

I've got to confess that when I first saw ur screen name that's what I thought as well.

to this day whenever i see Sean Bean's name somewhere the voices in my head say "SEEN BEAN".

Me and my friend say it like that too even though we know how to spell and prononce it

I live on a street named “Normal.”

Sounds like a good title for a song.

I've never met anybody named Randi.

I was once acquainted with a woman named Randi. But I didn't know her well enough to know whether her name matched her personality.

how did she introduce herself? 'Hi, I'm Randi'?

i would've replied, 'so am I, but I try not to tell everyone.'

Another option I considered was having one that starts with Du as first, and Dennis as middle. So that he could, theoretically, go by the Du.De. as well.

"Doody"?

That kid will grow up and put a hit out on you!

When I first read this thread the first thing I thought of and am amazed that no English have brought up is Keeping up Apperances.

I can't find the appropriate clip but the main character titled Hyacinth Bucket keeps insiting that it's pronounced Bouquet.

I've never had any problems with my first name but my last Mckibbin (guess where my screen name came from) has led me to automaticly spell it out for anybody when I need to fill out a form or what not

 

[BrotherBenny]

My names are spelt differently, Marc Antony (c instead of a k, no h) and my brother in Gerry Martyn (G instead of a J, y instead of an i) - I dislike my parents for even giving me those names...

And I know a Sean spelt Sion...

 

[mari]

My real name is Stacey, spelled the masculine way.

I didn't realise there was a masculine form of Stacy but then again I didn't know Jane could be a girls name


(yes that was a Firefly referecne, yes I know it's spelt Jayne)

Well, the only man I know of with the name is Stacey Keach, the actor, so... ::shrugs::

When I first read this thread the first thing I thought of and am amazed that no English have brought up is Keeping up Apperances.

I can't find the appropriate clip but the main character titled Hyacinth Bucket keeps insiting that it's pronounced Bouquet.

I watch that occasionally on PBS and every time she says Bouquet, it reminds me of the book London (author is something-or-other Rutherford, can't be bothered to check my bookshelf at the moment) where there is a family named "Ducket", and one social-climbing member along the line insists it's an Anglicization of "Duquette".

 

[Kibbin]

I've never heard of him, what's he been in. Now bear in mind that I don't watch or experiance much so most of what you say is gonna be flying over my head. You might want to save yourself some time and effort and keep it to anything big or just say "nothing important" pat me on the head and said me on my ignorant blissfull way .

I've never heard of that either, stop brining culture and learning into this, don't you know my only experiance of life comes from bad BBC sitcoms

 

[mari]

I've never heard of him, what's he been in. Now bear in mind that I don't watch or experiance much so most of what you say is gonna be flying over my head. You might want to save yourself some time and effort and keep it to anything big or just say "nothing important" pat me on the head and said me on my ignorant blissfull way .

I've never heard of that either, stop brining culture and learning into this, don't you know my only experiance of life comes from bad BBC sitcoms

Nothing I've ever heard of. I just know his name because my mother brings him up every time we talk about why my name has an e in it... which, seriously, comes up WAYYYY too often, and usually apropos of nothing.

I would not recommend reading London unless you have a few months and a serious, serious love of overarching prehistory-to-modern-day novels with hundreds of characters who are all remarkably similar. Also: send more bad BBC sitcoms! PBS is running low and subjecting me to yet another adaptation of Emma. As if I have the attention span for that.

 

[Kibbin]

Unfortunatly I don't think BBC is doing anything atm except reality tv dance shows and Eastenders, at least until Top Gear comes back on that's like a bad sitcom, right?