I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there is no evidence that anybody has ever named a child la-a. My mom used to tell this story all the time, and I believed her for years that this was a real name until I googled it and read up on it. The name is an old urban legend that may pre date Internet lore.
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Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Student names that really exist in my local area: “L-A” (pronounced “Elldashah” and Hazmat (shortened to Mat). Not had a Bobby Tables yet, but getting that dash into Eldashahs name was a difficult task, I am told.
McFarius@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
How odd you think that. She was on my roll call for a term. I am not going to tell you which school, as doxing a student is wrong, so I guess Elle is going to have to remain a myth for you.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Hazmat is such a badass name.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve heard so many claims of Ladasha and Elldasha, along with reports of Lamonjalo and Orangelo. I’d expect them to be more prevalent with so many people reporting they know one.
palordrolap@kbin.social 6 months ago
Allegedly real names that didn't break a database so much as people's brains:
Female (fe-MAA-leh) - the story goes that the mother didn't know the word "female" or didn't know it was spelled that way, so assumed the nurses named the child for her.
Ampersand (pronounced as the regular word) - the mother liked the sound of it, and well, IMO, it does have an "Amber" + "Amanda" + "Sandra" kind of ring to it (Not now, Lou Bega).
Shithead (shuh-THEED) - there may be at least two people with this name, or else I've heard the same urban legend / of the same person from two different directions. That is, I had heard of this name prior to chatting online with someone who claimed to have met a person by this name.
In before someone posts the Key & Peele sketch.
Jambone@lemmy.world 6 months ago
In the mid 80’s, a friend that worked in a hospital was telling about unusual names. My favorite:
Syphilis (SUH-fill-ess) - the word was on the mother’s chart, she liked it as a variant of “Phyllis”, and thusly named her baby.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I have encountered a fe-MAA-leh in the wild. Also a Darealest and Dacoldest (brothers), and I saw a sign from the hospital listing a new baby named “Yahansum Guy”
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
My name is Shithead and I walk like this.
Lamedonyx@lemmy.world 6 months ago
To be fair, [Gaylord is an actual name](en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_(given_name\)) that exists, and yet, you probably don’t know any.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I have personally known two Gaylords. And there was an olympic gymnast by that name.
But I only hear those other names in stories that have a weird class/race component, and the sheer volume of reports with no corroboration is suspect.
Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Dunno, teachers meet a lot of students, seems likely to me that a lot of us would encounter the same kid and not forget her.