Names spelt strange ways

[Mr. Laser Beam]

There's a choreographer named Anita Mann. Maybe she and this Rich Batchelor guy should get together.

Uh-oh . . . I can see this turning into the Juvenile Joke Names thread. Who's Dick Hertz?

Or the local OB-GYN, Mike Hunt.

And the bartender, Al Coholic...
gym owner, Jim Nasium...

 

[Brian]

Or the local OB-GYN, Mike Hunt.

I went to HS with a Mike Hunt. Poor kid.

There is a girl at my boyfriend's school who's name is Shadynasty. The teacher on the first day of class asked "Is Shady Nasty here?" He was quickly informed that it's pronounced Shuh-Dynasty.

 

[captcalhoun]

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.'

 

[Emher]

I understand that problem completely.

Classic! Incidentally "Throatwarbler Mangrove" has become a default name at various occasions in my closest friends group.

 

[NCC1701]

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with having a unique name, having to spell it out is quite another thing - believe me, I know what I'm talking about, my name's Maarten, I usually pull out my driver's licence when somebody asks how to spell my name - but to intentionally mangle the spelling of a name that already exists is quite another.

And before you say the spelling of my name is mangled, nope, it is and I'm Dutch, so there

But why can't people in New Zealand spell your name? Aren't they mostly from Zeeland?

Very funny

 

[K'Ehleyr]

My surname is Joy ~ exactly as it is. And the amount of people that ask 'how do you spell that?' makes me want to make up a different way...

I live on a street named "Normal." You can imagine how many cracks I get from people when asked my address. when Hubby and I bought our house, my father asked, theatrically incredulously, "YOU? YOU live on Normal?" I said, "Since I take after YOU, YOU shouldn't talk."

And, yes, I've had to spell it. I usually say, "It's spelled like 'normal.'"

I lived in Normal, Illinois. It's a great place. A famous headline read, "Normal woman marries Oblong Man". (Oblong is also a town in Illinois)

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

 

[iguana_tonante]

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?

 

[captcalhoun]

i can never understand people asking if 'Scott' is 2 Ts. of course it is! i'm Scott not A Scot...

 

[Miss Chicken]

i can never understand people asking if 'Scott' is 2 Ts. of course it is! i'm Scott not A Scot...

Upthread there was a guy who actually was a Scot spelt with one T.

 

[Jim Gamma]

Yeah well... there are two spellings of "Iain" - the Scottish version (the one I just used), and "Ian". Most English people use the latter.

My middle name is Martin. The only reason it isn't Martyn is that the registrar had written it down before my parents could give him the spelling. Thank God for the registrar - I'd have changed it by deedpoll!

 

[scotpens]

Upthread there was a guy who actually was a Scot spelt with one T.

Yep, I'm Scot, but not a Scot. I'm an American Jew of German, Polish, Russian and English extraction. As I mentioned in my earlier post, the single T wasn't my idea. But I kind of like it. Makes me stand out from all the other Scotts.

 

[D Man]

I had a teacher in elementary school named Dennis Mitchell, and he said he got a Christmas card from Hank Ketcham every year after his (my teacher's) mother wrote and complained.

 

[RoJoHen]

I don't get it.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Dennis Mitchell = Dennis the Menace

Hank Ketcham was the cartoonist who created Dennis the Menace.

 

[M'Sharak]

I don't get it.

Dennis Mitchell is the name of the little boy in the long-running comic Dennis the Menace, which was created by and is still written and drawn by Hank Ketcham.

 

[gturner]

Dennis the Menace was a comic that featured the activities of Dennis Mitchell. It was drawn by Hank Ketchum. It's like someone named Charlie Brown getting a card from Charles M. Schulz.

 

[gturner]

I guess we got that cleared up!

 

[Miss Chicken]

I don't get it.

Dennis Mitchell is the name of the little boy in the long-running comic Dennis the Menace, which was created by and is still written and drawn by Hank Ketcham.

I don't think it is still being written and drawn by Hank - he has been dead for several years.

 

[M'Sharak]

^ Oops. You are correct.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

I was in a line picking up a lay-by for a friend. The young woman in front of me was putting something on layby and had to give her name. She gave her first name as Brittany and added that it was with 2 Ts and 2 Ys. I gather the sale assistant after being told that started to write in down as Bryttany but was told it was Brittanyy.

Who in their right mind spells this name that way? Once when you heard a name you had a fair idea how to spell it. There were a few like Sean/Shaun/Shawn that had multiple spellings but there weren't that many odd spellings.

Does this trend annoy you?

Question though is did she herself pronounce her name right? Pronouncing it like it is spelled you have to extend how long you pronounce the final syllable. If she didn't you can honestly tell her her name is either spelled or pronounced wrong.