Yay for butchering names!

[nothingtolose19.livejournal.com]

I work at Dairy Queen, and today I happened to see two interesting names on cake orders:

Chilo and Jewelia.

I was looking at Chilo going ... 'Chi-lo? WTF?' Then I thought about Shiloh .. and I was like ... no way. But yes, the mom came in and when she got the cake, she pronounced the name with an 'sh' sound.

For Jewelia, I just saw the cake order, but I'm assuming it's a butchering of the name Julia. As a Julianne, it made me do a severe D: face. I'm just hoping that it's a spelling some little kid wants, and not how the name is actually spelled.

Comments

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Chilo is funny to me, because it's the word for "kilo" in italian (pronounced as kilo too).

Jewelia makes me want to read it Jew-EL-ee-ah, but I guess you're right that it's "Julia"

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend said the same thing about Chilo.