Posted on 03/28/2014 12:08:12 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Over copied the quote.
Who are more likely in America to spell wrong or make-up names or assign odd names?
That IS the point. . but you knew that already.
I have a German last name that is rather unusual, and I often respond with “Smith” when people butcher it.
Its been said there are 14 perfectly fine and different ways to spell Catherine.
FWIW.
OTOH, there have been a number of odd first names in the political ranks: McGeorge Bundy, Condoleezza Rice, Newton Gingrich, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Rand Paul off the top of my head. Barack Obama doesn’t count, since he was “Barry” until well into adulthood.
Not Guilty
I have a real common name and I hated that growing up. There were always five or six other girls with my name in my classrooms. The teachers would resort to calling us “(Name) 1, (Name) 2,” etc.
Once I worked at a company where the women sitting in the desks right next to mine had the same name as me, and several other women in the company also had the name. Someone circulated a joke memo saying please not to hire anyone else with that name.
I always yearned to tell someone my name and have them say, “Oh, what a pretty name!” But it never happened. I felt ordinary and dull.
So there must be a happy medium!
My name is not weird!
My guess is that growing up in rural Georgia at the time that he did, that name was a definite asset.
The studies probably focus on the naming conventions in the black community.
I have a weird name. I’ve only met one other person with it in my life (I’m mid 40s) and have only heard of it on maybe 5 or 6 other people (including a google self search I did that picked up the only other person on the planet who shares my first and last names)
However it IS unmistakably Anglo-Saxon. Overall it was a pain when I was a kid, but it’s definitely paid major dividends as a teenager (dating) and adult (career)
Charming lass ... was probably quite shapely even without the corset.
Odd maybe. . .but made-up?
There is a certain segment that has a corner on misspelled or made-up names.
Thanks for posting. I never knew the origin of that song.
The only Anais that I know is an African-American.
He was born in Ohio and grew up in Indiana ...
Mooslime names don’t translate well either, for instance;
1) M’Balz Es-Hari
2) Haid D’Salaami
3) Hous Bin Pharteen, his cousin I-Bin Pharteen
4) I-Zheet M’Drurz
Gotta be rough.
It is particularly galling when the spell check automatically tries to change my Latvian name of Guna to guano. Sheesh!
I worked at a welding shop with a guy named Spike Nail. No joke, I carded him. His sister Penny was employed there as well.
Now that is funny. . .sad to say.
;-/
Actually the most likely folks to come up with names people who don’t know any better THINK are made up, spelled wrong or odd are white people. Then we find out they’re Swedish, or French; my grandparents gave my mother the German (our heritage) spelling of a name that in America is usually seen with the French spelling so people often think it’s misspelled but it isn’t. Now the STEREOTYPE is that it’s black people, but it’s not actually true. So your “point” is false, you’re following a stereotype that’s not true.
So for 11 years her name was Anais Pole.
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