What Funny Names Are In Your Family?

[digitS']

Dad's 2nd oldest brother was Orville.

Now, remember that they are in southeast Oklahoma. The 1920 census taker put him down as Arvil ... you'd have thought that a spelling would have been asked for.

Maternal grandmother was one of 3 sisters: Ilma, Ida and Orda. I had never even heard of another I.L.M.A until I did some research on that name but that is what they named my grandmother.

BTW, if you wondered why I changed the font in the previous post, it was because I started to write about Ilma. Lower case L's and upper case I's are about the same in all of the font choices. I forgot which was the default.

Steve

 

[Sam BigDeer]

Bay, did that cousin named Lurlene marry a man named George Wallace by any chance??
Sam

 

[Sam BigDeer]

[QUOTE="digitS', post: 188822, ]
BTW, if you wondered why I changed the font in the previous post, it was because I started to write about Ilma. Lower case L's and upper case I's are about the same in all of the font choices. I forgot which was the default.

Steve[/QUOTE]
Add to your comment the numeral one (1) and you have hit on one of my pet peeves with the way software engineers do 'word processing'; l I 1.... Now, after typing those characters, I'm happier with the word processor used by this Forum..
sam

 

[baymule]

Bay, did that cousin named Lurlene marry a man named George Wallace by any chance??
Sam

I just looked through the family history book, and no, she didn't.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

I have a book called Remarkable Names of Real People. My favorite in there is Supraporn Poopatana

Personally, I've always loved that of the noted mid nineteenth century New York City financier, Preserved Fish (of the Hamilton-Fishes)

Can't really think of any. I've already mentioned my Aunt Hillary, but that's really only funny in terms of realizing there were MEN with that first name too. I had a Great Grandmother Yetta, who I am technically named after (there is a Jewish custom that you are supposed to name children after relatives who have died, which tends to keep the same names rolling around) but that's really more ethnic than odd (among Yiddish speaking Jewish women, it was a perfectly common first name, like Hershel or Schlomo for men) I had an great grandpa Israel as well though everyone called him Red. There was also Great Uncle Selly (Selwynn).

 

[so lucky]

One day when I worked in a flower shop, a young very pregnant gal came in and asked to see a picture of a protea. (my spell check is challenging the spelling on this)
She said she was planning on naming her baby Protea, and wanted to know what it looked like.

 

[thistlebloom]

One day when I worked in a flower shop, a young very pregnant gal came in and asked to see a picture of a protea. (my spell check is challenging the spelling on this)
She said she was planning on naming her baby Protea, and wanted to know what it looked like.

Poor child.

 

[Smart Red]

My Mom had a cousin named Lurlene. Now put a southern drawl on that and you get LUR (like fur, but with a L) LEEN (emphasis on both syllables ) And try to roll the R a little, just to drag it out.

Funny story, IMHO, about a southern drawl on names. My cousin from Louisiana came for a once in a lifetime visit to south-est, central-est Wisconsin. Not remembering my male cousin's name, I asked. He said something I heard as "Lawrd".

Not thinking anyone would really name their (tubby) son "Lard", I went to ask his sister the same question. She also said what sounded to me like "Lawrd".

I disbelief now, I ran to ask Mom what his name was. "Lloyd, of course."

There was a good reason all the radio and TV stations sent their reporters and announcers to the Midwest to learn to speak so all of America understood them.

My biggest question was always "How do you learn to spell down south or in New England where words are twisted, letters added or dropped in speaking?"

 

[Smart Red]

As for baby names, a friend used to work in a poor down town Chicago hospital. There a young mother listened to the nurses and doctors around her. He recalls a young woman who thought "Vagina" was the prettiest word she had ever heard and was determined to name her baby that.

 

[thistlebloom]

As for baby names, a friend used to work in a poor down town Chicago hospital. There a young mother listened to the nurses and doctors around her. He recalls a young woman who thought "Vagina" was the prettiest word she had ever heard and was determined to name her baby that.

I hope somebody stopped her and explained what she would be doing to her daughter!