Community Chat

[SeaMaiden]

A girl I worked with ...her name was Eloy  ( I think she spelled it Eloi)..sounded out as spelled.  She said her father named her when he was stoned....after a Hobbit character in the book.  I has the hardest time remembering her name as I had never heard such a name.  

My my husband worked with a man named Peter  D*I*C*K..that must have been awful growing up .....

[DJP]

Hopper

[Posh Poodle]

I knew a boy named Ova. Not kidding. I'm like doesn't the family know an Ova is an unfertilized egg?

[Pandalady]

My first year teaching, the class down the hall had a student named "Pizza Hut."

[Bridgegal]

I had a student from South Korea once and his name was Hung Dong.

Another teacher had a student named Pajamas ( she pronounced it peyjamahs).  She said her mother saw the 'name' in the Sears catalogue and liked it. 

[Mmsfoxxie]

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@Noel7 wrote:

@Mmsfoxxie

Was that in San Francisco?

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No, @Noel7.  Chicago.

[rrpell]

In my community, there was a women's garden club that reported its activities in the local paper.  This was in the days when the ladies used their husband's names and were referred to as a "Mrs. John Smith ".   I always found it odd when Mrs. Harry Butt was mentioned. 

[plc123]

I was born in 1959 and my parents named me Lorelei. That was awful to grow up with. No one could pronouce it or spell it.

[insomniac2]

I had a student named Flowreader (for "Florida").

[Mellie32]

I can think of a TON of current students whose names are very unusual. 

But I'll mention a student I had when I was student teaching.  Her name was Careagain because her mother began to "care again" after giving birth to her.