[identity profile] bewitchedxsoul.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] babynames
My little sister is about to start 4th grade and when I went with her to open house I was looking at/critiquing (in my head) the names of her classmates.

The worst?

Dilalable.

..that's pronounced as DelilahBelle.

I was speechless.

Date: 2009-08-24 08:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stillbefree.livejournal.com
It looks like gibberish to me! I wanted to say Di-lala-ble...sounds funny...lol.

Date: 2009-08-24 08:19 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-08-24 09:18 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-08-24 11:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] krosp.livejournal.com
Dial-a-lable?

Date: 2009-08-24 02:28 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-08-24 11:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arbus.livejournal.com
..that's pronounced as DelilahBelle.

um, no. no it isnt. i mean, it cant be. it just makes approximately ZERO sense. :(

Date: 2009-08-24 01:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] th3-unicorn.livejournal.com
It's more like Dil-eye-lab-ol to me.. (ending sound like "impredictable")

Date: 2009-08-24 12:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tabby-renee.livejournal.com
O.O That hurts my eyes

Date: 2009-08-24 12:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrssubee.livejournal.com
wow- I would never think to pronounce it that way

Date: 2009-08-24 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thellamaqueen.livejournal.com
ouch.
my first instinct was to pronounce it something like Diablo. :P
The poor teachers (and poorer yet, the substitute teachers) in that school who have to embarrass themselves by grossly mispronouncing that little girl's name and then being laughed at by the other students for it even though the teacher was just pronouncing it exactly the way it is written... *sigh*

Date: 2009-08-24 01:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] th3-unicorn.livejournal.com
I frowned IRL in confusion.

Date: 2009-08-24 01:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lovablemess.livejournal.com
Wow! Where do parents even get these horrific spellings?!

To me, it says Dila-label. You know, like it's spelled.

Date: 2009-08-24 05:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eeangel44.livejournal.com
no that woudld be dil-al-able... ugh..

Date: 2009-08-24 08:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snailrevolution.livejournal.com
I thought it was "diabolical" or maybe "delectable" for a sec. XD Just, wtf.

Date: 2009-08-24 10:37 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-08-25 07:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solitudete.livejournal.com
That really looks like gibberish.

Date: 2009-08-25 02:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aintlifesosweet.livejournal.com
Oh, that is so awful.

Date: 2009-08-26 09:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] qalanjo.livejournal.com
*Adds to my girl names list*
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