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so someone i know has

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nappyaddict · 16/04/2008 19:06

a dd1 called shaynie-leigh

and has now called her dd2 shayla

going to get confusing when both are called shay at school!!

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ImflightbutIcantlogintoday · 17/04/2008 19:35

Shem, Ham and Japhet always sounded good for some reason.

ImflightbutIcantlogintoday · 17/04/2008 19:35

Lol at George Travis Walls!! Is that after the sausages?

Boy and Newboy is wonderful, I really can relate to the thinking behind that...

Ladidadi, I spent a few minutes double taking your post and by the time I'd figured out that you meant 'Daily Mail readers' I saw your correction

sparkybabe · 17/04/2008 19:32

Sham?

NotDoingTheHousework · 17/04/2008 19:29

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JoyS · 17/04/2008 19:25

www.duggarfamily.com/

These people have 17 children and their names all start with J. They've gotten rather creative with the girls' names.

sparkybabe · 17/04/2008 19:24

I knew a set of twins called amy and jamie.

Scotia · 17/04/2008 19:11

Then of course, there's Michael Jackson with Prince Michael and Prince Michael II - and I'm not sure but is his dd not Paris Michael?

Scotia · 17/04/2008 19:09

I know a Leanne, with twin brothers called Lee and Liam.

CoteDAzur · 17/04/2008 15:07

Yes. Most expats avoid ç as well when naming their kids because the letter doesn't exist on qwerty keyboard and will get written as c and then pronounced as k.

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nappyaddict · 17/04/2008 14:56

isn't ç just pronounced ch?

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CoteDAzur · 17/04/2008 14:27

hatrick - Turkish English
Özlem and Özcan's parents must be very courageous.

Anglophones never correctly pronounce that first letter (it is not pronounced as "O"), nor any Turkish word that has 'c' in it. That last syllable -can is pronounced as "john".

Expat Turks I know tend to name their kids with simple names that don't have any Turkish-specific letters like ö, ç, ş, ü, etc.

stripeymama · 17/04/2008 14:20

To be followed by NextBoy and TooManyBoys, we wondered?

lottiejenkins · 17/04/2008 14:17

Have posted on here before... my mum met a lady once with 3 sons called Dirk Dean and Darren!!!

CoteDAzur · 17/04/2008 14:16

LOL @ "Boy" & "Newboy"

Sazisi · 17/04/2008 14:14

I used to live next door to twins called Paula and Paulette. They had a brother called Paul [hmm}
I never knew their dad's name, but I could make a guess

CoteDAzur · 17/04/2008 14:14

Of course that is not a Muslim tradition

AHLH · 17/04/2008 14:12

cyteen Isn't it Muslim tradition that all boys are called Mohammed though?

branflake81 · 17/04/2008 14:07

Not the same but I know a married couple called Peter and Greta - it always makes me laugh, they sound like they should be in a children's story.

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nappyaddict · 17/04/2008 12:42

see i think samantha and samuel is as bad as shaynie and shayla.

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suwoo · 17/04/2008 11:27

I went to school with twins called Timmy and Tammy. I'm loving Boy and Newboy

eidsvold · 17/04/2008 11:18

i knew a family - Dad was Peter Peters - no biggy, he married a woman called Peta Peters and when their son was born - you guessed it - they named him Peter Peters too.

sparkybabe · 17/04/2008 11:11

A woman in my antenatal group had a girl, called it samantha. Her ds was called samuel.

shelleylou · 17/04/2008 11:06

ye that is my brothers name was just with someone saying about the first four letters being the same

SirDigbyChickenCaesar · 17/04/2008 09:35

George foreman named all his kids george because he figured that with his past it was likely that he would get dementia and forget their names otherwise. quite clever really.

throckenholt · 17/04/2008 09:02

I read a book recently by a woman from the Outer Hebrides where the tradition is to name after family members - she had 3 brothers called Donald - something like Donald John, Donald Alexander and just plain Donald (I guess at number 3 they ran out of relatives to name him after !).

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