the strangest name i have ever heard

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

My mom is a nurse in a hospital. One of her friends at work had a patient on Friday with a most unusual name, this is how it was spelled:

La-A.

Ladasha. Yeah. The dash in the name is pronounced "dash" within the name.

I was floored. I just sat there with my mouth open for a good 30 seconds. That is so not ok. Definitely the strangest name I have ever heard. 

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[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

your mom's friend did not have a patient with this name.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

I wish that were true. :)

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

this has been going around the internet forever, and has been posted here at least three other times. it's just a funny story people like to say happened to someone they know.

but hey, if there's an online nursery page for it, I'll eat my words.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

Hm, well I have never heard of it. Her friend works in another department, wrote it down (so she would remember how to spell it) and brought it to her to show her. Mom kept the paper and brought it to dinner to show me.

And the patient was a grown woman, not a baby, so there is no nursery page to speak of.

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

her friend probably saw it online and decided to write it down.

[sublime29girlie.livejournal.com]

just because its a joke doesnt mean it cant be real too, ya know. that was kinda a snap judgement.

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

because anytime it get's posted anywhere it's always "my best friend's cousin's neighbors FOR REAL saw this name. trufax"

[sublime29girlie.livejournal.com]

and those people MIGHT just be telling the truth too...

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

and maybe there are 100s of nosmo kings out there too?

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

"Ladasha" is an actual name, with a meaning and an origin (supposedly, say so several baby name sites). Is it such a stretch to think that some moron decided to change the spelling to be different?

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

to la-a? yes.

[sublime29girlie.livejournal.com]

could be, whos to say.

i was just saying, it was a pretty quick that this girl is an OMG LIAR trufax... *shrug*

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

when did I call her a liar? I said her mom's friend probably saw it, thought it was cute and decided to be funny. nothing malicious here dude. let's just calm down a bit.

[sublime29girlie.livejournal.com]

when you said "your mom did not" that implied that when she said "my mom did" she was lying. i dont really care, just seemed like a quick judgement to me.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

MTE. Perhaps it started as a joke and is now a cool name. lol.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

If it is true maybe someone saw the joke and thought it was a great idea?

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. It's one of her oldest friends who works in the ER. I doubt she made it up. It takes all kinds ya know?

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

http://thatisracist.tumblr.com/post/90403096/its-ladasha-la-a-the-dash-dont-be-silent

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

I'm confused as to what that page is.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

If you enter La-a in google they go "did you mean Ladasha?" and I found that site. *shrugs* Not sure if that means it's real or isn't real. But with the stupid names people come up with, I'm not above believing someone really did decide to do so.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

I agree with you.

I worked in direct care for several years and in that time I had a Diamond, Raven, and a Prince and Precious (they were brother and sister). I also went to school with a girl named Sparkle. I don't really think that Ladasha with a fucked up spelling is all that farfetched.

[matika88.livejournal.com]

lol.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Urban Legend

Your mom's coworker didn't help deliver twins named Lemongello and Orangello either.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Nor did she deliver a baby boy named Shithead (pronounced sha-TEED) whose mother "named him what his daddy be."

[kort-ni.livejournal.com]

but there is a wake forest university football player named Gelo Orange (and yes it's pronounced Jello).
http://wakeforestsports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/orange_gelo00.html

So it is possible for those urban legend names to get some play. (*devil's advocate*)

[quite-rosie.livejournal.com]

My co-teacher has a teacher friend who honest to God, has a student with that name. She showed her the class roster.

When her friend wasn't sure how to pronounce the student's name, the girl got very offended and said, "DUH, LADASHA!"

It may be an internet joke, but someone was probably lame enough to name their child that.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU. I love how everyone things I'm lying or my mom's friend is so attention starved to make this up.

"Ladasha" is an actual name, with an actual meaning, according to several baby name websites. It isn't so far off to me that someone idiot would take that name and fuck with the spelling to be cre8tive.

[quite-rosie.livejournal.com]

You never know! As a teacher, I've seen some names that make my eyes pop.

[satunian.livejournal.com]

I KNOW (Without looking)
Leh-dash-uh!

Do your mom work in Florida? My friend is a doctor there, he told us about a patient he encountered with that name too - I wonder if it's the same person! D:

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Everyone says it's an urban legend but one of my good friends found a license with the name La-a and had to pronounce it over the loud speaker at her job - "Will La-a come to the front desk" type of deal. Of course she pronounced it like "Laya" or something along those lines but the girl said "My name is La-dash-uh."

Now, could she have been fucking with me? Possibly. But I don't know.

I posted it too and got all the LOL's at me too.

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

My sister is a teacher and taught a girl with this name. I swear. Only hers was Le-a. So naturally my sister called the girl Leah and had to endure the mom tearing into her for ten minutes about mispronouncing her daughter's name. And I quote: "The dash be not silent."

I so wish I was kidding.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

It's so stupid hey... you can't just decide that an unpronouncable symbol is pronounced. Why is it Ladasha and not Lahyphena anyway? I say hyphen more than I say dash.

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

Lahyphena! I love that. Of course the awful thing is that someone will probably do that, and some poor child will wail, "Mom, why couldn't you just call me Ladasha like a normal person?!"

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Seriously, one freaking day, I will use the dash in a name, and I will pronounce it like that just so that this stupid internet meme will be true.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

And no one will believe you because obviously, if it's an internet joke there is certainly no one in the world who would see that name and think it's cool and name their kid that. No one. Nope. Couldn't happen. :)

I mean, really? My mom was an L&D nurse for 15 years and in that time had a woman name her daughter Meconium and Syphillis (she saw it on her chart and thought it was pretty...she pronounced in Sy-phillis). People name their babies some stupid shit.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

And I am now seeing that those names are considered internet urban legands too. ::shurgs:: Oh well. My mom was there and I believe her. This was also many years ago, before the internet was something everyone had in their homes. Eh, it's funny anyway. :)

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

It's like a whole new creativity to name. I should name a child...

*-esk+d

Astrid!