Very strange names for children

Choc pud - Honor?

Ooh ooh, I'm close. Now I'm getting more excited. What on earth can it be. Which post is closest chocolatep the first or second? Come on give us a clue

I had a student named Viajra and although I tried extremely hard not to call her vagina I think I might have accidentally said something like viagra........there were constant giggles and sniggers, and it was an adult class too!

I asked a small Chinese boy's mother how I should pronounce his name Xexey (may be misspelt). She looked me calmly in the eye and replied firmly, 'In England, he is Gary.' Lovely family, wise too!

Helvetica ?

Katek - I just keep looking at OP and thinking Kivvylin! It's just a bit too clever.
DD was at school with a Trai-Ci and a neighbour called her baby Emme-Leigh with an umlaut on the second e 'to be different'. I wonder whether over the years she has become Emily!
Where's an umlaut when you need one.

Okay, chocolate, how many letters, vowels, consonants? What does it rhyme with? Is it a recognisable name or a made up one? Give us a chance

Hi. 1 lady has said that some competition winners names etc are on Facebook. I'm not surprised.
When are you going to delete some of the input in the whole of Gransnet?
Including online.
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Who are you talking to/about, Maggie725?

Um. Is it me, or has this thread got very odd?

I think perhaps Maggie has posted on the wrong thread.

Back to the business in hand. Come on chocolatep we really want to know. Give us some more clues please.

Just remembered. I worked in a Bank, and one cashier came hurtling out of her "cage" [as it was in the old days], barely able to speak, she was laughing so much. The customer's name [to be fair, she was Icelandic ] was "Randy Bang"....

I read on Internet about a young girl who had just given birth to a baby girl, and when the nurse asked what her name was going to be the girl said what sounded like ash .hole .ee . The nurse asked her how it was spelt, and the young mum said asshole.

I taught a Blue Black and a Red Fox!

what is an 'umlaut', even DD who is a MA in literature doesn't know.?

Theyre dots over an a, o or u to alter the pronunciation of some German words. Sorry, can't reproduce examples here. You get it on Moët (ooh it did it automatically) of Moët and Chandon fame

I get the idea but how do you pronounce Moet, I always thought it was said as its spelt mo-et. But the little thingys above must mean its said differently , I only got as far as A levels and we certainly didn't do those thingys then 1970.

I met someone this weekend called Helsey. Never heard that one before

I think Moet is pronounced Moway - but I have never drunk any so I could be wrong. Asti Spumante is easier to say and to buy.

The dots on the "e" in Moët aren't an Umlaut. They separate the vowel sounds so that they are not pronounced as a diphthong.

They are known as a trema or diæresis.

I'm still smiling over Helsey - I wonder if they thought it was a posh form of Elsie.

Oh sorry - forgot to mention the pronunciation. The same as Noël. So Moway is pretty close.

Yes of course JackyB. Don't think German has umlauts on e? Had just thought if a common word with two dots and my thought processes led me to champagne.....

When I lived in New York my son was very friendly with a Korean boy, they were both seven years old at the time. The boy's name was Sherlock Sun . I asked his mother why she called him Sherlock, as I knew that many Koreans in N.Y. gave their children an Anglo first name as they felt it was easier for the child. She felt it was the most English name she knew. I didn't tell her that I'd never met another Sherlock , anywhere. My Korean paediatric doctor named her son after my son, Edward, as she thought it was a royal name.

My son was at school with twins called Andrew and Peter Ness...ok till you've to sign your name. A school teacher friend had an Excalibur in her class, last seen being escorted from the school by two policemen. Do you think the name affects the child?