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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.
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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.
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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 ****ing 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?
A Dash has a compartment for stringbacked gloves and a Hyphen is a mythical beast, made of scrag ends of other animals held together with No More Nails
A dash is used instead of "to". eg: 8-10 years old, 90-100 pringles per can, etc. etc.
A hyphen is used so connect words (hyphenated).
_ is an underscore.
why are we all giving grammar lessons to the OP? It's not him that needs them 😉
There is an internet forum where the answer can be found. Link here: http://www.topix.com/forum/city/jonesboro-ar/TKOOU1B26AMOIFA8P/p2
I'm thinking of calling my impending child Sebastian. Will he be treated as an outcast for being the only kid at school with a normal name?
'Darren' just appeared in the middle of the 20th Centry. There were no Darrens, then suddenly there were lots and nobody really knows why.
Indeed, my name is effectively over, a small [url= http://www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/Daren/m ]epidemic[/url]
Will he be treated as an outcast for being the only kid at school with a normal name?
"Sebastian" is a normal name ?
Where do you live ?
"Sebastian" is a normal name ?
+1
A Dash has a compartment for stringbacked gloves and a Hyphen is a mythical beast, made of scrag ends of other animals held together with No More Nails
Post of the week.
I am also impressed Loco! quality, very creative!
Sebastian does have some innate evilness I can't describe though.
Darren is presumably something Irish. It comes up in Welsh place names a fair bit, but no-one without Welsh connections calls their kids Welsh names. It's all Irish this and that.
I bet none of you can pronounce this as intended
has shibboleth turned up yet ?
Ella?
Reckon its Welsh for eBay, someone had to do it..
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Sebastian does have some innate evilness I can't describe though.
That'll be my eldest then 🙂
molgrips - Member
Darren is presumably something Irish. It comes up in Welsh place names a fair bit, but no-one without Welsh connections calls their kids Welsh names. It's all Irish this and that.
I'm called Gareth, despite having zero Welsh connections.
We called our son Samuel, so I'm sure he'll be ridiculed at school for not being called Daytona KFC or sommat. He's got "Chaz" as a middle name, so hopefully that'll make up for it.
ledasha.... obviously... and after all the OPs pantomoime I had better win a flipping big proize
we know of someone that called their daughter "Female" pronounced
Fee mar lay !!!!!!!!!
How long before there are kids at school called LOL & MILF?
[normal name]Matthew[/normal name]
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Is it wrong to call my kids "m@" (mat) and "2l_0" (tooelunderscoreo - mother's Mexican) ?
Thanks for the link Brant - an interesting story. It would appear that the Self-Congratulatory Judgemental Movement has a global reach - well beyond the Daily Mail and STW.
I particularly liked the reference that many of the forwards had the comment "And we let these people vote!!!!"
It's hard to imagine more typical language of a STW ranter.
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The question now is whether Mr Monkey has been duped into forwarding a hoax email or whether life has started to imitate art - [url= http://www.topix.com/forum/city/jonesboro-ar/TKOOU1B26AMOIFA8P/p2 ]like so[/url] - and his wife's friend really does have a L_a in her class. If she does then Mr Monkey wins a prize 🙂
I have never read such utter rot in all my born years.
Total claptrap. The case is proven for a list of government sanctioned names.
I have never read such utter rot in all my born years.
I'm sure you have - you've been here for at least a year.