[blparent] Baby names

Fri Apr 27 21:32:03 UTC 2012

Maybe those were the boys my aunt saw delivered in the hospital! LOL  I'm
sure those poor boys got royally teased despite how their names were
supposed to be pronounced.  When my husband's cousin was in high school
there was a foreign exchange student who came to her school from an Asian
country and I kid you not her name was Bitch Luwong.  The principle of the
school greeted this girl on the first name and told her what Bitch means to
Americans and the girl quickly agreed to changing her name to Betty just
while she was in the states.  It was very nice of that principle to care
enough about this poor girl's reputation to help her avoid the humiliation
and labeling she would have if she had gone on with her name while attending
that school.

Erin

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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the names orangejello and lemonjello are pronounced differently, It is a
more comen name then you think My step dad was a baseball coach and had a
couple of boys on his team names those names.

On 4/27/12, Erin Rumer <erinrumer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I know what you're saying!  Even though I have a pretty mellow 
> name as far as taunts go I still got my name constantly spelled wrong 
> like the male version as Aaron instead of the Irish version Erin.  The 
> only one kids would use regularly when I was little is, "Erin's scarin 
> everyone in town".  My last name was Elliott which I really liked and 
> the only mean thing kids would say with that is "smelliott Elliott" 
> but that was only mainly by one boy in particular and he stopped 
> bugging me when I gave him a bit of a beat down on the playground with 
> my cane. LOL  It is amazing how bullying really affects us all though 
> because even though I didn't have a problem with hygiene, I still 
> became a little self-conscious about it and kept checking my arm pits 
> in the bathroom for a short period of time after that.  I know 
> bullying is another topic but it just goes to show how powerful words 
> are and names are something we live with forever.  I just feel 
> terrible for those kids whose parents were obviously smoking something 
> when they decided to name them!  My aunt is a maternity nurse  in a 
> hospital and I kid you not when I tell you that a woman came in and 
> had twin boys that she named Orangejello and Lemonjello.  I just hope 
> for those boys sakes, they grow up to be really large so they can 
> defend themselves on the playground. Grin
>
> Erin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> On Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 12:21 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Baby names
>
> Kids can come up with taunts you wouldn't believe.  Here are just a 
> few I got with Jo as my name!
>
> "Whoa, Jo, you're too slow."
> "Jo-Jo was a man who thought he was a woman ..."
> "Jo, Jo, you stepped on my toe."
> "Yo, Jo, whadda ya know?"
> "Hey Jo, you're a pro.  I'm a poet and didn't know it."
>
> And so on, and so forth.  My brother got teased mercilessly for having 
> the name Peter, which he didn't shorten to Pete.  I knew a kid in 
> school who got called Fartin' Martin so much that he started going by 
> his middle name.
>
> Actually, I think Daphy is a cute nickname.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and 
> tolerant of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will 
> have been all of these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, 
> American scientist
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:12 PM
> To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blparent] Baby names
>
>> I really like Dawson and Preston. For the girls, I like Daphne, 
>> although a potential nicname, or taunt, could be Daffy. I may 
>> over-analyze things, but I have considered possible nicnames and mean 
>> names other kids could give, along with what the initials may spell.
>> When my cousin was naming his first daughter, they wanted Alexis 
>> Susan Stoakes, which I had to point out would spell A S S, and they 
>> promptly changed the middle name, smile.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
>> Read my blog at:
>> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>>
>> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
>> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>>
>> Message: 15
>> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:34:01 -0700
>> From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
>> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Baby names
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>>
>> Some of the names I love include:
>>
>> Boys names
>> Dawson, meaning "son of David"
>> Gideon
>> Preston
>> Levi
>> Grant
>> Avery
>> Denning
>>
>> Girls
>> Valerie
>> Laura
>> Theresa
>> Emerald
>> Daphne
>> Sierra
>> Vienna
>>
>> I love reading the names you all have been sharing.
>>
>> Erin
>>
>>
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