Comments on: Batman Bin Suparman And Other Ridiculous Names For Children

By: Mule Taker

Mule Taker — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:57:31 +0000

I was at the birth party(as opposed to christening) of a child named Geronimo.I spent the whole day sneering,but it’s not really funny.Well maybe just a bit.

By: Bock

Bock — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:06:35 +0000

African-American or not, it’s still bullshit.

By: K

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:24:52 +0000

Oddly many of the African American names ARE in fact built on the names of the mom and dad. So if your parents’ names are robert and mary it could be bertma or robma etc. That’s why they are often unique.
One of my son’s here in the US is Dara and he would love to kick Dora the Explorer’s head in as she is screwing up how people pronounce his name left and right.
Barrick for BaRock drives me up the wall but I know it’s payback for the US pronounciation of EYEraq
It’s hard to live in two worlds

By: Bock

Bock — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:53:56 +0000

It’s a bit of an in-joke.

By: Nora

Nora — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:43:24 +0000

Er, what’s wrong with Snopes? Seriously.
I thought they were ok.

By: Darwin

Darwin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:01:35 +0000

Snopes said you can eff off too.

By: His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:36:48 +0000

La-a was one of the best ones yet.

For my part,
there’s Shy-anne instead of Cheyenne (after the Native American Indian Tribe)

also, Shi’thead (watch how you prounce with the apostrophe…)
and,
Le’monjello, Or’anjello
(mother had twins, and she really liked the hospital’s orange and lemon jello)

As I work a baby unit, I’ve seen some others, but these have been the best so far.

By: Bock

Bock — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:07:01 +0000

That’s because the surname Keane is just an anglicisation of Ãƒâ€œ CathÃƒÂ¡in.

By: sakimoto

sakimoto — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:50:55 +0000

Like the R’n'B (I’m pretty sure the B stands for bollocks) singer Ciara. I read about her before and thought she must be of Irish origin with a name like that, then I heard it pronounced ’sierra’ and assumed it was just people from outside of Ireland reading it incorrectly. But nope, that was it, sickened I was.

Then again ‘Keane’ is pronounced ‘Kane’ in many parts of Mayo.

By: Glitterkitty

Glitterkitty — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:03:54 +0000

a friend of a friend knows a pochahontas o’connor
hate hate the americanisation of irish names, it’s spelt a particular way, pronounced a particular way, don’t change it!
kian from westlife used to be cian from westlife but it was changed for the uk market cos they couldn’t get their heads around the ‘c’ being pronounced ‘k’ and were pronouncing it ’see’, as in ’see-an’, enough said