maury gems

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

Here's an interesting sibset heard on Maury on Friday:
Anthony
Allessa
Aushtyn & Aundrue (twin boys)

Thoughts?

Comments

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

Anthony is fine, not my style but it's fine.

My only comment on the others: :( :( :( :(

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah. Anthony totally wins the name award of his family.

I don't think Allessa is that bad either.

But the twins have equally atrocious names.

[mommaalli.livejournal.com]

I saw that episode actually lol! And I wanted to post this, but I didn't even have any idea on how to spell the names!

[mrssubee.livejournal.com]

I think Allessa is pretty- although maybe one less L

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

Poor Anthony! He lost out on the "Cree8yve Nayme Spellying" lottery. He will be teased unmercifully at school!

Seriously, Allessa, Aushtyn and Aundrue? There is no way you can pronounce these as Alyssa, Ashton or Andrew. All vowels are ~NOT~ interchangeable! Adding a "u" after an "a" ~DOES~ change the pronunciation. Sheesh. English 101 here folks. :/

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

I thought they were going for a kre8iv twist on Austin not Ashton. Either way it sucks.

The names get progressively worse. I hope they're stopping at 4 kids because I can't imagine how you'd top those last two (maybe they'll start with random punctuation to go with the random spelling changes).

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm. Maybe they ~were~ going for Austin. I saw the "sh" and thought it was Ashton they were butchering. Maybe it's supposed to by a mash-up of the two? Any way you slice it, it sucks like a Hoover.

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

She pronounced them like they're written.

ah-LESS-ah, OSH-ten, ON-dru.

I don't think that makes it better, though, haha.

[xuse-soapx.livejournal.com]

I like Allessa for some strange reason, though I'd probably never use it. Aushtyn and Aundrue are just gross.

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

How is Allessa said? Alyssa? Aleesa?

I do love Anthony. It is my husband's name, but I've always liked it. If he'd let me, I'd use it as a child's middle name, but he wants to avoid that.

The rest of them are pretty atrocious.

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

I would pronounce Allessa as Uh-LESS-uh. That's how it looks, anyway.

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

So would I. It's not a name I've heard, but even if it's made up it's fairly pretty and not too bad. Although I think I'd go for Alessa as a spelling.

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

I agree. It's one of the prettier sounding made-up names. I would also use just one "l".

[bl4ck-r3ign.livejournal.com]

Aushtyn sounds like someone with a bit of a speech impediment would say Austin... don't like.

Aundreu just sounds (and looks) weird.

[nothingtolose19.livejournal.com]

Anthony is okay - while not my style, it's a perfectly acceptable name.
Allessa actually sounds very pretty, but I would spell it with one l - though I really like Alyssa, so... :)
The other two are just atrocious.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

My thoughts are...no wonder she's on Maury.

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

lol

[bl4ck-r3ign.livejournal.com]

LOL, yeah! Why is it that people on these talk shows have such odd names? It's so strange.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

There was a girl on that very same show last week named Shy'oosh. Pronounced EXACTLY like it looks. Her sister's name was...Rita.

[bl4ck-r3ign.livejournal.com]

What?! LOL I just sat here like "O_O" and then I was like "o_O".. so odd, especially for Rita, who seems to (thankfully) have missed the "creative" stick.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Anthony's a great name. Allessa isn't...too bad, though I'd drop an L.

Aushtyn and Aundrue? Now that's just child abuse.