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Ms Redford said the gate agent "started laughing, pointing at me and my daughter, talking to other employees", and her daughter had asked her why they were mocking her.
"She said: 'Mom, why is she laughing at my name?' And I said not everyone is nice and not everyone is going to be nice and it's unfortunate," Ms Redford said.
You named your little girl Abcde for ****'s sake!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46393501
I met someone named Qwerty once, but I assumed this was a nickname or a deed poll effort. Now I'm not sure.
Am torn on this one.
On the one hand, the airline/employee shouldn't have responded to the name in that way. Very unprofessional .
However...Abcde?
How’s it pronounced?
They pointed and laughed because abcde is a boy’s name.
How’s it pronounced?
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My wife teahces a kid called McCartney. His brothers are called Lennon and Harrison.
No Ringo...Yet.
The sign of true professionalism is to keep a straight face and laugh at the parent once they leave.
Living with the name Abcde would be bad but her younger brother Fghij is really screwed.
The kid deserves sympathy but the mum deserves all the mocking coming her way. American though - so nothing surprising.
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My wife teahces a kid called McCartney. His brothers are called Lennon and Harrison.
No Ringo…Yet.
You're testing us, right? Or is there really a flaw in your thinking?!?
Well Frank Zappa named his kids Dweezil, Ahmet, Moon-Unit and Diva (a bit ordinary that last one). But he said it was their surname that would cause them trouble.
Moon-Unit’s vocal on Valley Girl is excellent.
With a name like that I'm assuming that School register time is probably like this :
How’s it pronounced?
parricide
How’s it pronounced?
Alphabet.
How’s it pronounced?
Pronounced ab-si-dee apparently, and because Absidee isn't weird enough Abcde it is. I wonder if the mum is secretly raging because it took until her girl was 5 years old before she could get some viral social media publicity out of it.
@psling: I was thinking the same thing.
Her sister is called Ella Minnow Pea
As if life isn't hard enough without being lumbered with a ridiculous name.
I had a delivery man come into work yesterday laughing and joking about the pisstake name some one had put on the parcel.
It was just my name 😂
Yet her brother Stu breezed through check in without so much as a s****.
^ Razor sharp there Perchmeister, razor sharp.
According to the article in 2014 there were 328 children named Abcde in the US...!
From over fifty years ago:
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Edit: sorry - not very visible. It’s a “Peanuts” cartoon from the early ‘Sixties, with a character called ‘5’, full name 555-95472.
Wifes a health visitor based in one of the Chav strongholds of east manchester,
The kids names there are crackers,
2 sisters called Dolce and Gabbana,I kid you not.
It's a common Hawaiian name apparently, nothing to do with Jackson 5.
The laughing is one thing (and not on) but the other is taking a photo of a passengers boarding pass and posting it on social media - surely that is a cause for instant dismissal?
I'm not surprised this is a US airline though. I get a glowing feeling of pride when I fly a British airline like BA back to back with a US airline and a sense of dread when I am about to board a US plane as I know there is a strong chance I am about to be subjected to a complete lack of professionalism and customer service. But then to them it's like getting on a National Express coach.
Nothing like an US immigration looking at your passport and saying with your surname you look like a Portuguese pirate!!
I love that it's pronounced ab-si-dee, how much of an idiot parent do you have to be to that to your child?
Even David Bowie's son has changed his name to Duncan.
Have a friend, Jerg. When he flew to the States the guy checking his passport laughed and said "your name sounds like jerk".
But Abcde...? That's just ridiculous.
, Her father , Robert has a real sense of humor tho
nope. image posting fail
Should have been Hijklmno, pronounced Worter.
328 children called Abcde... imagine the fun with internet logons
My parents used to work at a school where one mother had named her two children Tia Maria and Tequila. Any wonder social services were involved at an early stage?
I encountered somebody through work this week whose daughter is called "Latte", however they didn't check the spelling before the registration of birth and they've spelled it "Laate" .
^ although sounding like an IKEA furniture item, that's the Urdu word for fetch or carry.
anyone who pronounces latte as laate needs flogging anyway.
on a separate note, we wanted to give our daughter an old fashioned name such as Gladys, Phyllis, Minna or similar. Loads to choose from, but In the end we just called her "Nan".
Loads to choose from, but In the end we just called her “Nan”.
After your Grandma?
I met someone named Qwerty once
The airline staff were simply preparing the child for what she’s going to get for the rest of her life.
She'll be well set up for a job in Google's parent company
At my friend's daughter's school there was another girl called La-a, it's pronounced Ladasha.
Poor kid.
She must get called Lahyphena a lot.
There's a chav family up the road from me, they've a young girl and a younger lad. The girl's name is Portia, I know this because it's bellowed across the street several times a minute in the evenings. For ages I thought it was an unusual choice of name for the child of a not-working-class family. Then it suddenly dawned on me... it's not going to be Portia at all is it, it's bloody Porsche...
It’s a “Peanuts” cartoon from the early ‘Sixties, with a character called ‘5’
I've seen that very strip in real life. I used to know a lad (from the US, because of course he was) with the middle name of Seven. His mum reckoned that some day we'd all be numbers so he should be ahead of the curve.
At my friend’s daughter’s school there was another girl called La-a, it’s pronounced Ladasha.
FFS, what's wrong with people? I'm all for interesting names, I'd draw the line at bloody stupid ones. She's going to spend half of her waking life explaining it to people.
I worked a kids Summer camp type thing one year in sunny Corby, and one lass rejoiced in the name of Scarlet Bliss Kettle.
You can really imagine it as the name of Chairwoman of the Board, can you?
At my friend’s daughter’s school there was another girl called La-a, it’s pronounced Ladasha.
Not in Glasgow is it? One of my colleagues was telling me the same about a young lass up there. Can't be many, can there???!!
According to the article in 2014 there were 328 children named Abcde in the US…!
Surely 327 of those have to be administrative errors - 'oh cock, I've started an entry by mistake and need to type something in... abcde 12345 it is'
At my friend’s daughter’s school there was another girl called La-a, it’s pronounced Ladasha.
Not in Glasgow is it? One of my colleagues was telling me the same about a young lass up there. Can’t be many, can there???!!
That's just a story taken from the Freakonomics book and regurgitated isn't it?
How about this one, someone named 1234 but pronounced Juan Tutrifor.
May not be true but seen it posted on Facebook somewhere yesterday.
People should have to pass sone kind of common sense test before they can have kids.
Some countries don't allow parents to burden their children with idiotic names, I think that is the case in Germany, although it is getting more difficult to administer with parents who have migrated there.
The daughter's name is Abcde (pronounced ab-si-dee) ...
To be honest I don't know how to pronounce her name other than ... A-B-C-D-E.
Having said that how many of you can pronouce the surname Ng. (Not pronounce as N-G).
😀
Ning.
Aren't these all urban myths?
Not in Glasgow is it? One of my colleagues was telling me the same about a young lass up there. Can’t be many, can there???!!
North east London.
Having said that how many of you can pronouce the surname Ng
Lad at my secondary school had that surname, I think the name was from Vietnam. Like Drac says we pronounced it Ning although this was Lanarkshire in 80s (not exactly a haven of multiculturalism) so was probably wrong and hugely insulting although also the best we could do.
I used to have in-laws with kids who had the names "Bailey" and "Morgan" pretty sure they were their favourite drinks as both were apparently conceived under the influence!
Well Frank Zappa named his kids Dweezil, Ahmet, Moon-Unit and Diva (a bit ordinary that last one). But he said it was their surname that would cause them trouble.
1) No he didn't - his daughter's name is Moon. Unit is her middle name.
2) Ahmet is not an unusual name. Certainly more common in the world, I would guess, than "Diva" (could be wrong about that last part, not researched this).
Having said that how many of you can pronouce the surname Ng. (Not pronounce as N-G).
All of us (unless there's anyone here without the power of speech) - the question would be better framed as "how many of you can be bothered to pronounce.." - If you can say words that end "-ing" then you can say words starting "ng-" you can just say "ing" and not voice the first bit. If you can say "-ing" then you can get your tongue and mouth into the right position. But it takes a little bit of conscious effort (at first) as it is an unfamiliar way of using it. So people who don't are just broadcasting that they don't have sufficient respect to make that little bit of effort.
I never knew that Unit was her middle name, I always thought it was a two word first name. cool name 🙂
Obvious urban legend about the chav parents wanting to name their daughter after the nice climbing flower: Chlamydia. Thankfully corrected by the registry staff before cursing the poor girl to a life of Pratchett-esq nominative determination.
All leading to the inevitable in a few years...
My eldest is called Charlotte. When I went to register her birth the Registrar asked me how we were spelling that. "C H A R L O T T E", I said, "how many other ways are there to spell it?"
The registrar looked over her glasses, lowered her voice ans said "I could tell you some stories..."
10 mins later I was educated just how thick some people can be,
Having said that how many of you can pronouce the surname Ng.
There was a family at our school (well, the son & two daughters) with the family name of Ng. They were Chinese. My sister was fairly good friends with Mai Yee, the youngest girl.
Pretty sure their surname was pronounced like uungh - kinda like the muted noise you make as your crotch hits the stem during an uncontrolled dismount.
Although most people just said N G.
pronounced like uungh
There's some variations (as with most words / languages) but whereas that isn't as far from "right" as many, there's no "u" at the start usually - if you think about your tongue when you say "ung" the tongue starts at the bottom of the mouth for the "u" and moves up and contacts the roof of the mouth as it becomes "ng" - so you just skip that first bit and start with your tongue against the roof of your mouth and you've cracked it. This is the bit that native English speakers find hard to get - while we can do the "ng" till the cows come home, we're not used to the starting position of the tongue / mouth as we're used to it running off a vowel sound of some kind.
This is taking me back to university linguistics tutorials with groups of students all making weird noises!
At my friend’s daughter’s school there was another girl called La-a, it’s pronounced Ladasha.
Poor kid.
I quite like this yin! 😆 creative!