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True Story:

I went out to lunch today with an old friend and he relates a story from his wife (who works as an attorney in child care cases).

She's representing a family with two young daughters:  Melody and Absidy.

Absidy she thinks... that's an unusual name. 

Then she sees how it's spelled: "Abcde".


Another One:

My wife used to work as a school teacher in a low income district.  A lot of the kids had unconventional names.  The two most interesting were twin brothers whose names sounded like they would be spelled:  Orangelo and Lemongelo.

Actual spelling:  OrangeJello and LemonJello


What the?!?


TOK:
I've seen this Orangelo/Lemongelo thing on the net at least 10 times. Nobody ever knows them, but they always know somebody that knows them.

Unless your wife is the originator of the whole internet mess, I'm calling BS on that one.

lokki:
Just read Freakanomics and one of the things it mentions is


--- Quote ---African-American woman naming her daughter ---sufferer of cranial-rectal-inversion--- (pronounced "Shateed")
--- End quote ---

Also mentiones the Orangejellos and LemonJello

Zero_Hour:
My wife did a stint as a retail Pharmacist while she was finishing up her degree. Filled a prescription for Umajesty, pronounced "you Majesty".

Best part: Last name Smith.

She still sees the occasional odd name, but 8 years later, that one is still her favorite.

Joystick Jerk:
We had one guy in high-school who's name was Anil, but with his thick accent he pronounced it Anal.

I was also going through a baby name registry from some county a while back and there was a kid named something like "Dubble Lovebirdd XX Princess BabeeLUV Shalawndra"

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