Supply Teacher giggling at name of child in class

[everythingflies]

Is it very unprofessional for a supply teacher to start giggling when taking the register in a class which they have not taught in before, because one of the children's names is "Bourbon"? Supply teacher in question is normally very professional but couldn't help themselves when hearing the name of the child.

Is it the kid’s first name? And is it pronounced how we’d say it, bore-bon? Or the American way, burr-bun?

if it’s a first name, and no matter which way it was spoken, I think I’d chuckle inside, too!

What sort of person calls their kid bourbon come on no one would be that daft may as well hand your kid over to the school bully on day one n tell them to get on with it

Well a biscuit is certainly the most commonly known use of the word surely?

Probably posts on here from the suggestions I have read on the baby names threads

Seriously do the people suggesting such ridiculous names not understand that a poor child has to live with this name and they will grow up and go to school and the real world or are they to airhead to realise this

Possibly a surname... which is French. Amazingly, the whole world doesn't revolve around British products.

I agree. Whilst it’s unprofessional and not nice for the child that’s what happens when you give your kid a stupid name

Perhaps she was giggling anxiously because she had no idea if it was pronounced like the biscuit or the drink - and neither seemed like a good choice?
I bet the dad's a whisky drinker personally.

Possibly a surname... which is French. Amazingly, the whole world doesn't revolve around British products

It’s 10/8. When did this happen?

I would say what’s more unreasonable is calling a child after a biscuit. Is bourbon male or female?

Yeah amazing!

It was a joke.

Tudur was a first name before it was a surname, it's the Welsh equivalent of Theodore. Welsh surnames used to be patronymic before they were frozen into the English system. Henry VII's great great grandfather was Tudur ap Goronwy. Tudur is just as valid a first name as Gruffudd (Griffiths), Ioan (Jones), or William (Williams).

Whether it's after biscuit /alcohol/ history

i just think it's stupid. I don't see how it's in any way funny.

same as the parents of a child I looked after. Children both born & intended to be raised in England... they called her Hershita. I don't care how common a name it is in India. The poor kid lives in England.

Unprofessional yes, but I probably would have giggled too. We’re only human.
Some names have gone a bit too far including bourbon. I think of Royal dynasties, American whiskey and horrible English biscuits (they just aren’t chocolatey enough)

Slightly disappointed I’m not having any more children because naming them after biscuits would be a fitting tribute to that which is most important to me 😁

It's still a place name, no matter how many people fume about biscuits. Peak Freans used "bourbon" after Rue Bourbon in Paris, just as Bourbon French used the name to reference Bourbon Street in New Orleans. But I suspect that the n@M3d aFteR a bI$cUit! idiots posters here also think that Flora MacDonald was named after the dairy spread and Siri Hustvedt was named after the Apple AI. There's no reasoning with willful ignorance.

It's not intentional that I chose black actors, its just that theyre the only ones with well known biscuit memes that have been around for years. I didn't create the memes myself.
Why do some people have to jump on everything and take offence. if they'd have been white actors/singers I'd have posted them too.

That's a point. @everythingflies how come this came up in the middle of August?

And also why have you not been back?

I'm also a supply teacher, and some of the names I come across are pretty out there.

For one of those more batshit names, of which Bourbon is definitely one, I might say something like, "Bourbon? Am I saying that right?"

Hershita reminded me of a child I met on supply not long ago. No joke, his name as written on the register was Arshit. My brain immediately went arse-shit, but I managed to keep it together and say, "Ar-sheet?"

Well, I doubt theses people are reading Siri Hustvedt, or have heard of her, but yes, absolutely to your point in general.

I imagine it was the surname. The dad was called Ron.

Anyway, this thread is excellent.

And Bourbon’s parents were very foolish. poor, poor kid. The supply teacher won’t have been the first person to laugh and won’t be the last.

(I am clinging to the belief that this story is true, for the comedy.)

I’d be howling! What a ridiculous name

i Think that’s the worst name yet. Certainly takes the biscuit… 🍪