The Most Bizzarre "Name" Ever

[Ree]

And I guess that answers my question on another thread of whether there's ever been a CS.com love match

There have actually been a couple, possibly more that I am aware of.

[repsac]

Please do not quote entire posts

If you ask for her name, and she pronounces it for you, you can at least phonetically spell it, right?

Nah. You'd just use the transliterated alphabet. She'd likely know it, but it just replaces the Cyrillic with English letters and groupings. One example might be:
(and I sure hope I remember how to do this right)

Da videnya.

I forget the Cyrillic for it, but that's "Good bye." In Russian.

Edit:

Not sure how true this is, but a friend of mine at Piedmont (first college I attended) told me this one of his student teaching.

Supposedly he had a class where one student's name couldn't be pronounced. So he skipped that name and did the rest of the class. Coming back he asked if there was anyone whose name he missed, to which one young girl raised her head and said hers. Asking sweetly, he said "Sweetie, what's your name?" To which she responded Shee-Theed. He swears up and down, her name was spelled Shithead.

[Ree]

Not sure how true this is...

...she responded Shee-Theed. He swears up and down, her name was spelled Shithead.

Probably not a whole lot of truth in it, since I read that in the snopes.com link.

[jayel]

A hospital nurse once told my husband and me about twins who were named- and she spelled it out for us- Da'Washa and Da'Drya. Get it?

Also, not sure how accurate this is, but I had heard rumor of another set of twins named Lemonjello and Orangello. Not sure of the spellings, but naming your children after Jello? Who was the father, Bill Cosby?

My dad has overheard two different mothers calling to their children, who were named Syphillis and Laundry (Londri?)

Makes you wonder.

[Jester]

There have actually been a couple, possibly more that I am aware of.

I suppose it was too much to hope that we were the first.

[Ree]

Well, the site has been around a long time.

[0oAmericanGirl]

I know a family who named their kid Jet Lei (last name).

Working at the hospital I've seen an orangejello before, but no other flavors. I've seen Tiger, Captian, Hiro, Chevy ( we live in the south). I heard from another hospital that somone named their child 1. I rather see the hundreds of Jadens, Cadens, Aidens and any other idens over being yelled at becauce some idiot named their kid unpronouncable name like shemakoria and expects everyone to be able to pronounce it on the first try.

What is the worst is when people mispell their childs name and insist that you are prouncing it wrong (mikeal is not Michael) or when they spell Jennifer as Jennipher or any name where they can replace an f with a ph.
I have not seen a symbol as a name, but I've been waiting for somone to come around with that.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

You mean "π"?

If you press and hold the alt key while typing in the numbers 227 you'll get the closest thing a computer can get to a Pi symbol.

But that took about 10 minuteds of searching before I could find it and I'm sure your patience was too far gone to do that for her.

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[Gurndigarn]

You mean "?"?

If you press and hold the alt key while typing in the numbers 227 you'll get the closest thing a computer can get to a Pi symbol.

Pi? In most fonts, it's option-p.

Edit: but it doesn't always show up on across the internet, apparently, so never mind.

[Lace Neil Singer]