'Most unfortunate names' revealed

Silvio

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Monday, June 28th 2010, 9:08pm

'Most unfortunate names' revealed

How would you react if someone's telling you her/his name and it sounds like 'pageturner' (Paige Turner), 'merry christmas' (Mary Christmas) or 'stand still' (Stan Still)? You might start laughing or giggling - not the best condition to start a conversation.

BBC UK wrote an interesting article about it and got also quite a few feedbacks from affected people.

Check the article out

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samir88

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Monday, June 28th 2010, 9:26pm

lol .. u remind me with a friend who called Gomaa! (Friday)

I always ask him what does he feel each Friday? if it sounds familiar that he is our weekend

(here in Egypt Friday is the weekend

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PS; that's his usual reaction "Shit NOT again! :cursing:

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Nike

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Monday, June 28th 2010, 9:41pm

Barry Cade is quite funny xD
I think the hardest part is indeed taking a certain name seriously when you here it partly.
In the Netherlands they also have a list of such names, where they call it 'schaam name' (shame name, literally translated). The 'winner' of most unfortunate name of the year (in 2009 I guess) was 'Fokje Modder', which can be heard as... F* your mother xD

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