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My friend has come across two very unusual names in her job over the last few weeks. Now the fist one the spelling says it all...
Abcde - pronounce ab-si-di (kinda how Cassidy sounds)
The other one is La-a, now how would you pronounce that? I'll come back later & tell you ;)
Is La-a pronounced Layer? or is it like liar?
Abcde - Oh my! I like the sound of the name but the spelling freaks me out :rofl:
:rofl: Are you serious...
no idea on pronounciation though...something odd like Lay-a?
*giggles*
I think La-a might be pronounced layer - like princess leia.
oooh weird, i would pronounce La-a like lay-er or even lar-ah
or la dash a?
oh... la dash a ...lol thats a good one ;)
my first thought was lar-ah too
Good thinking! I think that could be it.:
Hehe.. we found this one when we were JUST pregnant with Miss M.:
And yes - we did consider it.... we love the sound of it, just not the spelling.. LOL
Lay-a as in princess leia??
Didn't they watch Sesame Street when they were little...
Its Ab-cadefca...
YouTube - Sesame Street - ABC-DEF-GHI (1969)
HEHE very cute thats what i thought off first followed by Abracadabraa!!!:
Oh weird, I responded to this earlier today :dunno:
But yep Mel you were right, the dash is prounounced within the name - La-dash-a. Interesting huh?!
That is sooooo desperately sad.
The names themselves I could handle, but the spellings???
Geez, and some people find my DD's name hard to pronounce ... it's looking like a piece of cake now after reading your thread Sarah ;)
omg...
are you serious!!
abcde is just lazy! And the la-a is... well weird!
Please tell me no one is cruel enough to give those names to a child, please!
LOL, actually I like the names :think: The spellings... hmmm... not so much...
Hmm why didnt they just spell it ladasha? Save the poor girl lost of hassle when she has to start correcting peole when she is old enough, but hey if you like it ?
Still cant grasp how you say the other one???
Different noice unusal lol :)
I think Abcde is ab-see-dee or ab-sid-ee?
I could probably handle those names better if they were spelt how they sounded. No one is ever, ever going to work out that La-a is La-dash-a.
oh ok cool! Hmm still not my cup of tea ...but nice and origanal!:
At least Abcde is going to learn to spell his/her name easily :lol:
Hmmm :think: La-a is interesting... in a good way! I think I almost like it!!
Having thought about this a bit more, if they spell La-a like that and say it like they do, why do they not spell out the other two hyphens, so she would be La dash dash dash a :rofl: or are the other two 'silent' dashes? ;)
to be brutally honest - the poor kids!! imagine having to try and explain that every time you were asked your name?
my name is hard enough to explain let alone the hyphen
If i were a stand in school teacher i'd think that was a fake roll name a-la rowan atkinson's "roll call"
I think it's cruel.... I have a different name and when ppl say it they hesitate, it is so annoying and as a child embrassing to always have to correct ppl. I just feel sorry for the children. I like the way the names sounds but as for the spellings..they are just wrong.
Could be worse...
Could be JALYMZ where the L is "siiiiilent"... pronounced "James"
Or Synamyn....
Or Chynn'nah-bloo
Divvy, did you come across those at work? My friend who dealt with these girls (yes there are two little girls out there with these names) is in the same field as you.
What if you don't know the '-' is supposed to be pronounced 'dash' and call her La Hyphen A?? How embarressment! Yo be lettin' tha cat outta tha bag that yo wos kickin' it old school, aint up with the program, not keeping it r-l....:redface:
Noooo. That's too funny. Can't wait to share those names with the other teachers at my school. Kitt3n, that's hilarious. Yep, you'd definitely think you were having your leg pulled if you saw Abcde on the roll. :lol:
hmmm...just how far will people go in their quest to be 'original' with baby names? I truly hope using symbols instead of letters in names is not something that catches on!
:clap::
My name is hard given its Turkish and was teased a lot at school for it.
Abcde?? OMG. Poor kid.
**waves head in unbelief and walks away**
That's just plain mean. :(
The names are ok, but the spelling is a cruel joke.
I guess you could say it La-hyphen-dash-hyphen-a :lol::
I quizzed my Mum with the La-a one this morning, she didn't guess. And was horrified when I told her what it was!
I still remember the birth announcement in the paper for little 'Anfernee'. To me, that kind of spelling gives the child a disadvantage in life from the start. As much as we don't like to admit it, we form opinions (often not fairly based) on first impressions. For a child with a ridiculously spelled name, often the first impression is not a good one.
Trouble with it too though is if you are a child and an adult pronounces your name wrong, you run the risk of coming across as either a smart-arse or just plain rude when you correct an adult kwim?
Yep, Sarah, they're all work-related...
Just remember the one called "Tallulah does the Hula in Hawaii" who was (thankfully) taken off her parents in New Zealand...
It's just cruel doing that to a kid Abcde!
You could do Qwerty then it would be easy to spell on the keyboard!!