horrible/interesting names...

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

I work at a call centre so I come across some interesting names sometimes...

today I had a caller named Ayrieka- I had no idea on earth how i would say that...*headdesk* It was Erica... honestly do you really need ten extra letters to make your name 'different'?

Also I had a caller who's name was Precious...I must admit I had trouble using her name during the call, every time I said it I wanted to laugh...I felt as if I was talking to a little child... my co-worker joked one of us should name a child Sweetheart. Ugh.


Also some more interesting ones I've come across that are more names than misspellings:

Africa
Kenya
Joel (pron Joe-El-which i thought was kind of neat)
Carlisa

WDYT?

Comments

[274-days.livejournal.com]

I have a couple of friends who's names are pronounced Joe-el, both girls:
Jo`el & Joelle.
I think it's a pretty name :)

I once looked after a little girl (she was two at the time, and this was going back about five years) whose name was Sunshine.

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah i never thought to connect it with Joel- as this was a guy and had he not said his name i would have called joel-plain and simple...I do love Joelle for a girl though.

Sunshine isn't too awful though- she could always go by Sunny- but what can you go by if your name is Precious? Presh?

[amyames.livejournal.com]

Sunny is a guilty pleasure name of mine :)

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

My cat's name was Precious. It's horrid on a person.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

The first Joel I ever met said his name like that too (he had an umlaut over the E). I only learned much later that the name is usually pronounced Jole ... I like Joe-El so much better!

[classiestkid.livejournal.com]

Joel(Jo-el) is my friend's husband's name, I kinda like it.

[fangirlism]

Ewww at Ayrieka. (Doubly so because I'm Erika.)

Precious is my mom's dog's name. :\

I'd use Africa and Kenya on Sims, but not people. Joel (but I'd pronounce it Jole) and Carlisa are okay.

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

My ex-husband went to school with a girl named Precious Cox. No joke. :o/

If that was my name,

[nandy-pandy.livejournal.com]

I'd never speak to my parents again.

[nandy-pandy.livejournal.com]

Growing up, most people named Joel I knew pronounced it "jo-EL". Same with Noel = no-EL/"Noelle". I think one kid was named Noel pronounced "knoll". Wonder whatever happened to him...

[ihatebibimbap.livejournal.com]

I knew someone in church named Precious. She had two sisters named Angel and Blessing.

People made many Gollum jokes :D