Train Wreck Name

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

This is one of the most awkward names I've ever encountered. A local church has the pastor's name on the sign: Renty E. Kitty. Where to start? Well, a family can't help having a really odd last name like Kitty, but you'd think they could take it into account and not give a first name that makes him sound like some kind of rent-a-pet company. What kind of name is Renty anyway? I mean seriously, what the heck? I don't know what the middle E stands for. It may be a perfectly normal name and it may flow as well with Renty Kitty as any name can be expected to. But Renty E. is so very awkward to say, and then there's another "ee" at the end of the last name... To me, this whole name is a train wreck. (Disclaimer: I've never met the man, he may be a perfectly lovely person. It doesn't keep him from having a disastrous name!)

ETA: Today's library gem: a 50-60-year-old lady name Zylphia!

Comments

[jeweledvixen.livejournal.com]

Actually, Renty Kitty sounds like a porn name or a stripper name to me. For a female. What a wonderful name for a man to be stuck with for life. :/

Actually, I like Zylphia. I wonder if it's Russian or Hungarian, or something from that region.

[sal_amanda]

Yeah, I gotta second the stripper name comment. Ironic that he's a man and a pastor.

[frost.livejournal.com]

Agreeing with the stripper name comments, though my first thought was about rent-a-pets, haha. ^^

I really dislike Zylphia.

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

I would like to nominate your icon for Supreme Monarch of the Internet.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't necessarily label it a train wreck, but it certainly is an awkward name. You're absolutely right, too much of the "ee" sound!

Zylphia is an interesting name...I'm not sure how I feel about it. I think I'd like it without the "i": Zylpha, or something like that.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Wait, it just hit me--it kinda sounds like Sylvia. Could the names be related somehow??

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

That was my thought, that Zylphia might be, I don't know, the old Roman ancestor of Sylvia or something. I don't like that F sound in the middle of it. I really like Sylvia, though.

[frost.livejournal.com]

Haha! :D