The wife just showed me this.

Her friend has a new kid starting in her class next term. Her name is L_a. How would you pronounce it?

My first response was “is she from Liverpool?”

I shall reveal the answer later tonight. I guarantee nobody will get it, unless you actually know the person.

“Ella” would be my guess. Although I’d have called her parents various uncomplimentary things first for being stupid enough to give the poor girl a name spelt like that in the first place…

Lunderlinea. Lovely name.

“Although I’d have called her parents various uncomplimentary things first for being stupid enough to give the poor girl a name spelt like that in the first place… “

I spoke to a Michael Hunt today. Bet he wishes he was called L_a.

L_a?

Her name actually has an underscore in it? That’s just her first name?

Its obviously pronounced un-duh-skor. Silent l, silent a.

Tarquin Fin Tin Lin Bin Whim Lim Bus Stop F’tang F’tang Olé Biscuit Barrel ?

Tarquin Fin Tin Lin Bin Whim Lim Bus Stop F’tang F’tang Olé Biscuit Barrel ?

😆

F’tang F’tang!

How would you pronounce it?

Elle-Aye ?

Am I close ?

How would you pronounce it?

It?

IGMC

Do you pronounce her name Torres as he is really underscoring right now.

Nowhere near yet

It?

Do you pronounce her name Torres as he is really underscoring right now.

You don’t get wit like this anywhere else on the internet, that’s for sure.

😀

great. I have a really boring ordinary name. That’s just made me feel even more ordinary.

l’api?

L’Dasha

I’m not too sure of the actual rules of this game.

Are you saying her name starts with an l then has any number of letters and ends in an a, or is there just one leter, e.g. lia?

vectora?

The actual name is as typed.

L_a, no missing letters

Perhaps the underscore is like the blank letters in scrabble

I thought we were playing hangman!

Lunderscora
L.A.

Oh wait I know..

Chavette?

Ladasha!

Bigelle-smallay?

We have a winner and a very very close second

Whatever it is, it’s not going to work out well for the poor miss fortunate L_ardy **** Dah.

Ladasha? Really?

How is “_” equivalent to adash. Especially as its not a dash is it, its an underscore. A dash is a slightly longer hyphen, “-“.

Which one was the winner?

I don’t think the kind of people who would call their child that payed much attention during English.
I thought it was a wind up!

Simon and skidartist, are you chavs?

The winner was the one who googled no doubt! 😳

Oh and skidartist. I saw that cheeky edit

Don’t be backtracking and making excuses now

If I had my way it would be you Molgrips – Bigelle-smallay – superb

Who knows though L_a / Ladasha might catch on, some names just seem to appear spontaneously and become commonplace in no time at all ‘Darren’ just appeared in the middle of the 20th Centry. There were no Darrens, then suddenly there were lots and nobody really knows why.

My wife’s brother’s ex has a friend who called her kids…

Trenay

&

Treneesha

Maybe we will have a new generation of kids called / , n@talie and &die?

Your wife’s brother’s ex’s friend?

Name your kids after the numberplate on your car, keep them numberplate on retention then gift it to them on their 18th Birthday, boom, instant cherished number.

It’s short for “My Parent’s are Pretentious *ankers”

Surely Ladasha would be La_a, no?

No because it’s “a dash” innit bro?

IIRC Wendy was a name made up by J M Barrie…

No, more like La-a, but not quite.

What’s the difference between a dash and a hyphen anyway?