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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Was in the Corps with a guy whose last name was Anus. I tried to pronounce it a couple different ways and he finally said, "Don't worry about it. It's pronounced just like it looks." He was a real nice guy, said he'd heard every joke there could be about it including the mean ones. He as also a boxer and IIRC some sort of Golden Gloves champ. Tough guy, but I guess he had to be.
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It's become that way, here, too.
RBHarter
West Central AR
A boy named Sue has nothing on my Dad's dad , vs his father , whose given name was Bonnie Alonzo born in the SE corner of TX in 1901 .
Yep he was in a fair number of scrapes . Most of his adult life he was Bryant Al , I think from about the time he lied about his age to get in the Army he was 23 and too old and the court house where his birth certificate was burned down so they verified by census and accepted 1903 .
Yep he was in a fair number of scrapes . Most of his adult life he was Bryant Al , I think from about the time he lied about his age to get in the Army he was 23 and too old and the court house where his birth certificate was burned down so they verified by census and accepted 1903 .
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That would be a Lawyer...
oscarflytyer
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Have a customer with last name Assman! I really struggle with that phone call every time!
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
We had a local police chief down in the mountians whose name was Richard Payne, and he went by Dick. Growing up I knew several men with names like Carrol, Beverley and Marion, and nicknames like Peg, Fairy, Ann and a few others. One gents name was pronounced "Margaret" but it was spelled way different, I think it was Swedish or Norwegian maybe. Women had some strange names too. Both my family and my wifes have "Mehetabelle" although with different spellings. Mine was Mehetabelle Belcher. Boy, no one is ever going to accuse that lady of having a porn star name!
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RBHarter
West Central AR
My grandmother was Leora James Reed . I went to school with a girl named Stevie , not short for Stephanie . I can't even begin to count the Terry's and Tracy's with no consistency in y, i , and ie . Also Jamie with at least 3 spellings .
Dick as a Sir name was quite common in the area I grew up in .
There was a story about a young girl named Ima adopted by her step father Mr Hore .
Had an insurance agent/agency Bob Downs , a falactious slang reference .
Sherry Peck a red head too happy to steal a kiss .
I dated Tracy Lee Cherry and Traci Lee Charles ........ TLC twice .
Dick as a Sir name was quite common in the area I grew up in .
There was a story about a young girl named Ima adopted by her step father Mr Hore .
Had an insurance agent/agency Bob Downs , a falactious slang reference .
Sherry Peck a red head too happy to steal a kiss .
I dated Tracy Lee Cherry and Traci Lee Charles ........ TLC twice .
Rick H
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My step dad just passed last December at 104 yrs of age. He was a small man, 5'4" tall standing on his tip toes. He grew up in rural Wisconsin before WWII.....he was named Wilbur Laverne Hass. He was an all American Gymnast in college and served in the Navy on a DE in the killer group that captured U-505 that is on exhibit in Chicago.
He claimed he never realized he was short until he saw his college gym team photo. He was a tough little $h!t. I expect with a name like that he had to be. He was called Bill by his friends.
He claimed he never realized he was short until he saw his college gym team photo. He was a tough little $h!t. I expect with a name like that he had to be. He was called Bill by his friends.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I still know a couple Lavernes and alot of Francis's, some of whom go by "Fran" rather than "Frank"
Popular girls names in my area that passed with time- Viola, Agnes, Phyllis, Fern, Lucretia, Silvia, Gertrude, Lenore, Hortense, Gladys, Doris, Dorene, Mavis, Winifred, Edna, Enid, Milly/Mildred, Agatha, Goldie (wife just lost her aunt Goldie), Wanda, Starla , Edith, Dorothy/Dot (musta been 40 ladies called Dot where I grew up) and my all time 2nd favorite nominee for an awful girls name- Myrtle. Every lady I knew named Myrtle either went by "Mert" or more likely a nickname like "Tilly", "Skipper" or "Sandy" if they had light colored hair at all. First nominee has to be Hortense. Good Lord, why would you name you girl baby Hortense?
My wife has an ancestral grandmother named "Freelove Bucklin". I have a couple way back when with names like "Smervimore", "Duibhn", "Findoig", "Fynewald", "Dwbhn", and my personal favorite "The Treacherous Gabran". Honestly, that's how his name was recorded! We're talking Scotland roughly 900AD around Argyle. He married a, presumably, lovely girl named Lleian Ingenach from Wales. She died in France, he was probably hung or killed doing something nasty in Bonnie Old Scotland. When we get over into the Welsh side you may as well just assume every name is spelled with at least one w or y and either 2 d's, f's or g's in procession. "Gwyddiffid", "Dyddyffany" or "Hedydd" crop up as examples. No clue how you pronounce any of them!
Popular girls names in my area that passed with time- Viola, Agnes, Phyllis, Fern, Lucretia, Silvia, Gertrude, Lenore, Hortense, Gladys, Doris, Dorene, Mavis, Winifred, Edna, Enid, Milly/Mildred, Agatha, Goldie (wife just lost her aunt Goldie), Wanda, Starla , Edith, Dorothy/Dot (musta been 40 ladies called Dot where I grew up) and my all time 2nd favorite nominee for an awful girls name- Myrtle. Every lady I knew named Myrtle either went by "Mert" or more likely a nickname like "Tilly", "Skipper" or "Sandy" if they had light colored hair at all. First nominee has to be Hortense. Good Lord, why would you name you girl baby Hortense?
My wife has an ancestral grandmother named "Freelove Bucklin". I have a couple way back when with names like "Smervimore", "Duibhn", "Findoig", "Fynewald", "Dwbhn", and my personal favorite "The Treacherous Gabran". Honestly, that's how his name was recorded! We're talking Scotland roughly 900AD around Argyle. He married a, presumably, lovely girl named Lleian Ingenach from Wales. She died in France, he was probably hung or killed doing something nasty in Bonnie Old Scotland. When we get over into the Welsh side you may as well just assume every name is spelled with at least one w or y and either 2 d's, f's or g's in procession. "Gwyddiffid", "Dyddyffany" or "Hedydd" crop up as examples. No clue how you pronounce any of them!