abysmal real names

I've become accustomed to that one

blake bortles

Donny Dugdale
Mickeylee Macken

are two that just came up at work. Awful.

― Windsor Davies, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 14:54 (3 months ago)

lol

dutch speed skater FREEK VAN DER WART

Ha'Sean "Ha Ha" Clinton-Dix

I used to work at a place with guy named Dick Blunt.

bryan cristante

Tosaint Ricketts

literally everyone with the forename Dane

Dordt got 18 from Cliff Warner and Chris Sievers and Trevor Wolterstorff had 17. Brady Lollman struck for 27 on 10-13 shooting and Dane Bacon got 18 while converting 4-6 three-point shots.

Three Dane Laws on LinkedIn, sadly no Dane Gelds.

I have a friend named C@ndy whose sisters are named H0lly and T!ns3l, not even kidding

cauley woodrow

Volker Struth

I think I reeled back from the screen a little there.

probably fine if you happen to be German?

volker is the onomastic reduction of nationalism-volkism -- Old High German folc "folk" + heri "army"; cognate to Fulcher, an obsolete name used in England in the Middle Ages

Fulcher became Fulker in England.

doug loft

there was a college baseball player named Quintavious Drains who i was hoping would make it to the majors but seems like it hasn't happened

Reince Priebus is still the reigning king of abysmal names imo

I still can't believe that is a real name

i went to his wikipedia page to hear how his name is pronounced and every time it's kinda shocking how bad it is
you can't say it without sounding like him, which is rather alarming

/ɹəints pɹiybəs/

Rents Prius

Rants Prebus

It's his lizard name he just forgot to change it before running for public office.

lol totally

there was a college baseball player named Quintavious Drains who i was hoping would make it to the majors but seems like it hasn't happened

― ciderpress, Tuesday, April 15, 2014 4:45 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As a consolation prize you can have Cleveland Browns player Barkevious Mingo.

Barkevious has an older brother called Hughtavious

the only one of those that is actively bad is hughtavious

quintavious drains is a bit of a curate's egg

Jadeveon Clowney

Beeb Bertles, George McArdle, Graeham Goble, 3/5 of the OG Little River Band

Quintavious Drains sounds like a supporting character from Gormenghast

speaking of NFL players, I always liked Yancey Thigpen because of his unusual name. He was a Steelers player IIRC.

Thurman Munson (sic?). Even as a kid the name made me flinch.

I have a friend named B@rby who married a guy with the last name "B@rb@ra"

having @ signs in your name is pretty abysmal, yeah

i hate the name b4rb4r4 on its own

from Latin barbaria "foreign country," from Greek barbaros "foreign, strange, ignorant," from PIE root *barbar- echoic of unintelligible speech of foreigners (compare Sanskrit barbara- "stammering," also "non-Aryan," Latin balbus "stammering," Czech blblati "to stammer").

Well im sure someone somewhere named Barbara hates your name.

i was told how to pronounce 'nakhchivan' recently

can remember having an argument with my latin teacher about that etymology when i was about 13, he vociferously argued against the onomatopoeic root

how should one pronounce it then? xp

na-ker-hee-chee-van, basically - two extra syllables where you don't rly expect them

did a russian tell you that

no, but it was an englishman of about 60 years whom i know well, and who happens to be genuinely knowledgeable about indo-european history & cultures

essentially i respect everything he says, and there is a small handful of people i would say this about - he might be one of 2 or 3 individuals perhaps

the best approximation to an english speaker is probably the fifth one here afaik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhchivan_Autonomous_Republic#Etymology

^ correct afaik

cressida bonas

See also Chelsy Davy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Kitchen

the old name-is-a-noun thing never gets old, especially paired with a verb sounding name

Storm Duck is one for the pantheon

but just who is True Grant?

https://www.mancity.com/news/mens/who-is-true-grant-manchester-city-63838067