Anonymous
Post 01/17/2013 15:33     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:L-a (first name). Pronounced "Ladasha."


This is an urban legend.


This name shows up on every name thread, and someone always says it's an urban legend. How do YOU know? have you met every person in the world?


http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2013 15:01     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:L-a (first name). Pronounced "Ladasha."


This is an urban legend.


This name shows up on every name thread, and someone always says it's an urban legend. How do YOU know? have you met every person in the world?
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2013 11:35     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:L-a (first name). Pronounced "Ladasha."


This is an urban legend.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2013 11:27     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:L-a (first name). Pronounced "Ladasha."


A friend of mine knew a teacher who said she saw this one, too.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2013 10:44     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
L-a (first name). Pronounced "Ladasha."
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2013 23:57     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Nimrod. He was Israeli.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2013 23:50     Subject: Re:Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:I went to high school with a girl named Shbetta (pronounced just like it's spelled) and another named Sandy Beach (first and last).
My husband went to school with a guy named Landon Gentry (first and last), which is both bad and pretentious. My apologies if anyone in NoVa knows him.

My cousin made up names for her three boys, which I won't post here because they are so unique that she would know it was me posting if she ever Googled them.


This one sounds Polish, Zhbetta.

And Landon is one of the most pretentious names anyone can give to a boy. Ugh.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2013 23:47     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:Phuc


Now, this one is really unfortunate.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2013 23:28     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Worked with Karima Wheet
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2013 23:08     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Harbor, for a boy
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2013 23:06     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teagan


This is my daughter's name...please be sure to tell me to my face that you dislike it so much. In turn, we will be sure not to spend time with you.


I actually like Teagan, but it's really nothing personal if PP doesn't.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2013 22:24     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Phuc
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2013 16:10     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:If your name were on this thread, when you Googled yourself you would find an anonymous stranger saying "I went to school with a person named X. Horrible! Trashy!" That would be really hurtful. Try to have a little empathy, people.

Also, the Baby Name Blog has a great series of posts about the racial connotations of "humorous" anecdotes about names like "La-A," "Female," "Lemonjello and Orangejello," etc. The point is that while these stories seem to just be about "funny names," they have clear racial meaning.

http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one


If your name is on this thread, odds are you don't need Google to know that not everyone loves it. And yes, of course there are racial connotations to names, but you're post seems inapposite here, PP, because it is focused on African American names. Most the names being discussed in this thread are usually given to white children--a fact which anyone sensitive to racial meaning must surely have noticed. If anything, this thread shows that "white" names can be equally subject to ridicule.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2013 15:37     Subject: Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
If your name were on this thread, when you Googled yourself you would find an anonymous stranger saying "I went to school with a person named X. Horrible! Trashy!" That would be really hurtful. Try to have a little empathy, people.

Also, the Baby Name Blog has a great series of posts about the racial connotations of "humorous" anecdotes about names like "La-A," "Female," "Lemonjello and Orangejello," etc. The point is that while these stories seem to just be about "funny names," they have clear racial meaning.

http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2009/10/ledasha-legends-and-race-part-one
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2013 14:31     Subject: Re:Most "Uh, hmmmmm" baby name you've ever encountered.
Anonymous wrote:I think the worst is an old friend from high school who named his son Doescher. Pronounced dasher.

I know, I know, it's German. But it's also a strange name with an ugly spelling.



Yeah, but in German it's written with an "o" umlaut. ANd it's a LAST name. Always. so: blech, it's cringeworthy!

And it is also not pronounced Dasher. There is really not an American equivalent to the 'oe' sound of German.

ö, oe ö: something like the French "eu" or the British "ur" in the word "burn", e.g. Schoenberg = Schönberg = shön-berg (purse the lips and more from the upper back of the throat).