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Post by mids on Mar 6, 2024 8:31:50 GMT
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 6, 2024 9:47:47 GMT
People that deliberately misspell a name to be “unusual” need a slap.
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Post by moggyonspeed on Mar 6, 2024 10:37:12 GMT
This isn't even misspelled, as it appears to be a made-up name.
It seems that vanity may have moved on both in its scope and its practice.
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Post by mids on Mar 6, 2024 10:45:09 GMT
Years ago I worked with a woman who had previously worked in the registry office in Edinburgh, dealing with birth certificates etc. She was convinced that a lot of unusual names she came across were the result of thickos not knowing how to spell the name they'd chosen. For the ones who make up names to be "different", it is just vanity. Dicks.
My SiL used to be a health visitor and had a family of "vampires" under her care. They lived as if they were vampires and had given all their kids vampire names- Lestat, Vlad etc. I can almost sort of accept that as preferable to vanity names. People are strange.
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Post by moggyonspeed on Mar 6, 2024 10:54:00 GMT
Again - quite.
I wish it to be known that I have seen fit to create a new first name for myself based around a selection of letters from Fair England's worthiest names of yore.
Henceforth I will only answer to Albrichadavedfrageohowiajokenlukmarnorospetquenrobsimtimulyvicwilxanyurizeb (my preferred personal pronouns: it/its/Albrichadavedfrageohowiajokenlukmarnorospetquenrobsimtimulyvicwilxanyurizeb's)
Please comply with my wishes or I shall come over all offended on "Insta" and set Jordan Peterson on you.
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Post by voice on Mar 6, 2024 15:24:29 GMT
When my wife worked briefly with the School nurses in Hendon Bridge she came across a lot of stupid things people had called their kids, the ones that still stick out are a bit called River Running Wild and a girl called Truly Scrumptious
Hippy idiots
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Post by perrykneeham on Mar 6, 2024 16:15:41 GMT
My friends daughter went our with a lad who was called (as in, on his birthday certificate) The Groove.
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 6, 2024 17:27:14 GMT
This isn't even misspelled, as it appears to be a made-up name. It seems that vanity may have moved on both in its scope and its practice. No, it’s misspelled. It’s a misspelling of “Kimani” which is a name of Kenyan Kikiyu origin. I know a fair few Kimanis which is how I know (although all names were invented at some point so I always found that to be a weird critique.) Kimani is fairly unusual as it is (in the UK) without needing to modify the spelling. Although it could also be they did not know how to spell it. I know an Abbagayle (Canadian) and Shevonne (South African) and I am convinced their parents just spelled their names wrong.
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Post by moggyonspeed on Mar 6, 2024 17:45:25 GMT
Disagree.
A Google search of Keymarni shows that this name is more than likely made up, as the first two-dozen-odd hits all reference this story. Moreover, if the alleged shooter and/or the parents of same spelled it the way they have then either:
a) if they did this out of choice then by definition it's made up; or b) if they misspelled Kimani then they're either playing fast and loose with African heritage or they couldn't be arsed to do a little basic Googling.
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Post by flatandy on Mar 6, 2024 17:48:52 GMT
My friends daughter went our with a lad who was called (as in, on his birthday certificate) The Groove. That's a hell of a burden for the poor kid. Particularly if he turns out to be a nerdy dork with no sense of rhythm
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Post by moggyonspeed on Mar 6, 2024 17:52:05 GMT
Better a lad is called The Groove than a lass, for reasons I needn't explain here.
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Post by perrykneeham on Mar 6, 2024 18:23:15 GMT
My friends daughter went our with a lad who was called (as in, on his birthday certificate) The Groove. That's a hell of a burden for the poor kid. Particularly if he turns out to be a nerdy dork with no sense of rhythm Oh no, he was quite a cool f**k*r. Obviously, everyone over 16 thought it hilarious.
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 6, 2024 18:26:50 GMT
When my wife worked briefly with the School nurses in Hendon Bridge she came across a lot of stupid things people had called their kids, the ones that still stick out are a bit called River Running Wild and a girl called Truly Scrumptious Hippy idiots I quite like “River Running Wild” - seems very native. (I definitely prefer “River” to “James” or “Molly”. Friends of mine have just named their daughter Matilda. Why??? WHY? !
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 6, 2024 18:28:13 GMT
Disagree. A Google search of Keymarni shows that this name is more than likely made up, as the first two-dozen-odd hits all reference this story. Moreover, if the alleged shooter and/or the parents of same spelled it the way they have then either: a) if they did this out of choice then by definition it's made up; or b) if they misspelled Kimani then they're either playing fast and loose with African heritage or they couldn't be arsed to do a little basic Googling. You have missed the point. I would bet a million pounds it is pronounced “Kimani” (given that if you read it phonetically on screen that’s how you say it) which is likely just the parents wanting to spell “Kimani” differently. Which was the point I was making earlier. So it’s not “made up” in the sense that the name they are referring to is an actual name. Like spelling “Siobhan” as “Chevonne”. Or Jennifer as “Jennyfer”. Or a million different ways of spelling Katherine/Kathryn.
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Post by mids on Mar 6, 2024 18:36:54 GMT
Kimani is also a daft name.
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 6, 2024 18:36:54 GMT
I know a guy whose birth name is “Roots”.
It really suits him. He has never had any desire to change it and he is in his 40s now.
I also know a guy whose middle name is “ZimZam” after a drummer / musician?
His father wanted it as a first name but his mother refused to let him.
I had a very good friend at school called “Juanita” except her parents had registered it as “Juanetta” to be ‘different’.
She spent her entire school life having to correct people calling her “Wan-etta” or even “Jwan-etta”.
Her mom would get annoyed too and I would always think “if people mispronouncing it is annoying you why did you not use the traditional spelling?!” It’s not as if “Juanita” is a particularly common name in the UK anyway.
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Post by flatandy on Mar 6, 2024 18:53:52 GMT
That's a hell of a burden for the poor kid. Particularly if he turns out to be a nerdy dork with no sense of rhythm Oh no, he was quite a cool f**k*r. O I think he got lucky, then, unless you think having that name made him work hard at being cool.
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Post by voice on Mar 6, 2024 19:08:36 GMT
A friend called his kid Cornelius, poor kid hated it so much by 13 he told everyone to call him Ron (an odd choice imo) and never ever call him Cornelius ever again. Apparently his life had made hell cos one of the monkies in Planet of the apes had been called Cornelius
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Post by mids on Mar 6, 2024 19:52:03 GMT
I was at school with a kid called Francesco- his mum was French. As soon as he reached 16 he changed it by deed poll to James. Everyone ironically called him Jimbo because he was posh.
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Post by Repat Van on Mar 6, 2024 22:32:41 GMT
My friend called her daughter “Elektra”.
Granted, in Greece it’s just a name but I feel sorry for her daughter living in England with a stripper name.
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