meow85 said:

I did. When I bought Cinnamon Girl on iTunes.

meow85 said:

The 's' is marquis is silent--the word is pronounced mar-key in French (and should be pronounced as such in English). Marquise would be pronounced mar-keece, but marquise refers to a female. (Specifically, the female equivalent of a marquis.)

There's no way around it--Markiss' name is either spelled wrong or mispronounced.

TheSmyrk said:

jone70 said:

Looks like you're right.

Another pet peeve of mine about names: weird spellings. Picking some overused, overpopular name and spelling it strangely does not make the kid unique or an individual -it makes the kid's parents look illiterate. Kaitlyn is Catelin is Caitlynn is Khaytelin is K'tlin is.....the same damn name misspelled God knows how many times.

meow85 said:

What do you think of "Theodore" for a boy?

I favor Greek names, most definitely.

jone70 said:

'marquise' would be pronounced more like 'markeez' - one 's' in French is usually like a Z, two 'ss' would contitute an S sound.

just a fine point. no offense to anyone.

Heiress said:

Can't say it's something that would normally appeal to me, but it can be cute.


Is there an announcement you wanted to make...?

Heiress said:

Sadly, my French skills are pretty lacking. A hazard of living as far away from the French-speaking part of this country as possible, I guess.

meow85 said:

not quite! maybe sometime...

Heiress said:

Vous avez raison... I guess I was anglicizing it a bit.

Heiress said:

One of the things which really influenced my wife and I was the association with characters that a name has.

For example; we had both wanted to name our youngest son "Max" (she wanted Maxwell & I wanted Maximillian...but we both loved "Max").
HOWEVER - my damned boss has a dog named Max. So I couldn't think of the name "Max" without thinking of that damned dog!

Likewise...while Theodore is a strong name...I could never use it simply because of the image which pops into my head;

PurpleJedi said:

"Max" makes me think of a little book my daughter has, about a little rabbit who needs a bath...

and Theodore- actually, made me think more of an ex-President... you know, the one who got the national parks going?

Heiress said:

I'm sure that for you and the rest of the Western world, Theodore invokes images of good 'old Teddy Roosevelt.

But I suppose that I just watched too many damned cartoons as a kid.

PurpleJedi said:

Rhondab said:

I read this ten minutes ago, and I'm still laughing about it!



On a sort of related note, an acquaintance of mine from Ethiopia informed a friend of mine by the name of Jill that her name - as pronounced by somebody that speaks Amharic (a language spoken in Ethiopia) - is Amharic for "dumbass."

meow85 said:

You forgot "Chit'lin"

My mom teaches in the juvenile corrections system, and she had a female inmate whose name was Clitorus...i'm dead serious, no jokes, no lies, that was her name....now u know her mom had to be on crack...

meow85 said:

My sister's a teacher. She claims to have taught L'emonjello & O'ranjello.

Damn, I wonder if she's a liar?

I used to be ashamed of my middle name "Shackelford," but now I kind of like it.

My parents thought Andrew Shackelford Balmat sounded presidential. That's why I'm a struggling musician.

It's a big name for a baby to wear!

meow85 said:

Exactly...I mean, WTF was (NBA player)Anfernee Hardaway's mama thinking? Anfernee??? It's Anthony, you dumb ass! That screams illiterate.

Long time ago, some dude called in to the Howard Stern show. His last name was Mapp, and he named his sons Scientific & Majestic. From what I heard, Scientific was a pretty good high school basketball player.

CalhounSq, both Jermaine Jackson & Bobby Brown should be pimp-slapped for those
ridiculous names. Sounds like the dumb names I hear from the projects.

Too many stupid MFers having kids...

andyman91 said:

Actually, that's a nice serial-killer name. Those cats always use their full names.

uPtoWnNY said:

Jermajesty
And we all know the story about Anfernee. His dad was drunk at the hospital and:
"Oh my, what a beautiful baby. I was thinking about naming him Kobe, or Shaquille or something. What do you think hun?"
*takes a swagger* "WHAT?!?! Name him Anfernee!!!"
"Name him Anthony?"
"NO!! Anfer NEE!!"
"Wha- OH!! After YOU!"
"YEAH *burp*anfernee."
[Edited 1/31/06 14:55pm]

uPtoWnNY said:

Serial-killer, president, six of one half dozen of the other.

Pretty soon, parents will name their kids Noxema, Levitra, Vagisil, Lubriderm - you know it's coming.

My friend Greg told me he was happy he had an unusual name.

uPtoWnNY said:

The time has already come...

Speaking of weird names for your kids, I remember one time reading an interview about Prince's younger sister, Tyka. She has two boys, named "Sir" and "President".

I once met a girl working at a wrecka stow, and her name was "Sky" (very unusual).

But the name that I truly think is fucked up is "Delaney". What an ugly name! It makes me think of a car, a Dodge Delaney or something. What's funny is that my parents used to know a doctor with the last name of Delaney. My mom's best friend's daughter named her youngest kid Delaney. I would hate to go through life with a fucked up name like that. She'd better learn to defend herself, because when she starts school, I suspect that she's going to endure a lot of teasing about her name, poor kid.
[Edited 1/31/06 15:41pm]

http://new.babynameindex.com/

There are some very unusual names on there.

RipHer2Shreds said:

I knew a girl named niveah in high school. i think the name predates the lotion.