A couple names

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

A couple classmates. All born between 1987-1990ish.

Kemuel - male, pronounced kemm-well. Unique, but ehhh.
Gian - male, pronounced like John. Ehhh.

Comments

[auxoriousrex.livejournal.com]

atleast it isnt sarah rose

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

WTF, why the personal attack?

[auxoriousrex.livejournal.com]

for funsies

[songspell.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't Gian be the Italian form of John? I knew a guy from a very Italian family whose name was Gianni, pronounced "Johnny"...

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're having fun. You sound like an idiot.

(Pssst - learn how to use your 'shift' keys!)

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think it probably is. I'd never heard it pronounced that way!

[auxoriousrex.livejournal.com]

I don't have shift keys.

[djador.livejournal.com]

I know a Lemuel but I've never heard of Kemuel.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Gian is usually used in Italy in combined names, like Gianluca, Gian Piero, Giancarlo, etc. Never on its own.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Gian is the shortened version of Gianni (which is a contracted form of Giovanni), but it's never used on its own, always in combined names (see post below)

It's pronounced JAHN (JAHN-nee, Joe-VAHN-nee)

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was thinking about the Italian names as well, but this guy pronounces it John.

[auxoriousrex.livejournal.com]

NEVER?!?

[songspell.livejournal.com]

Never? Really? Maybe "not traditionally done in Italy", but sarahrose appears to be in the USA.

And with my pronunciation, "Johnny" is pronounced JAHN-nee.

But hey, maybe the family isn't even Italian and they just wanted a creative spelling. Hard to tell.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Well I once had a boyfriend named Johnny and my mom (who is american, but we live in Italy) would ALWAYS call him Gianni (JAHN-nee). Go figure :P

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess they wanted the italian spelling but also to make sure it had the english pronounciation!

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Not typically. I've never heard of it. It would be nearly impossible to pronounce on its own,as basically all our names and words end in a vowel.

[satunian.livejournal.com]

My roommate's name is Gian-Carlo, but he's actually from Latin America, not Italy. but his parents liked Gian-Carlo better than Juan Carlos, so that's what he got.

[songspell.livejournal.com]

I'm intrigued now... how do you pronounce "Johnny"?

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

More like JAW-nee.

[nandy-pandy.livejournal.com]

Now it's getting ridiculous.

[nandy-pandy.livejournal.com]

One of my classmates was named Giancarlo where in the "gian" sounded like "john" but he had people call him Gian, pronounced "gee-on" (rhymes with neon).