dying with laughter over this name

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I hate being bitchy over names but this has to be a joke, it's too good not to share!

A friend of a friend is a midwife and over the weekend whilst she was working, apparently a family named their little girl VaGina.

Just saw a pp joke about Chlamydia as a possible ridiculous name....
In all seriousness, my Nan has a friend called Honoria. Me and my sister always chuckle and call her gonorrhoea (not to her face!)

wOndered, wOndering

Wandering is walking around aimlessly.

Gina pronounced Gyna to rhyme with mynah bird? How odd. It's normally pronounced Geena to rhyme with Tina.

Having said that, my mum has a friend who is called Nina and it's pronounced Nyna, like mynah bird, rather than Neena, which must be a much commoner pronunciation.

Maybe lay off the OP a bit, folks. She hasn't killed anyone.

Thanks Walter my god, I apologise for my spelling also

Also, do registrars in the UK have any legal power to prevent parents bestowing a stupid name? I didn't think they did. This BBC article seems to agree that only a really offensive name can be blocked - would Vagina be considered offensive?

As far as you know Walter.` She's dancing dangerously close to the 'guess what a stupid migrant said/did' genre of 'humour' so it's hard to tell if she's a wrongun or just gullible.

Excuse me Fidel I may be a gullible idiot but i am not nasty or offensive nor would I post anything to be deliberately hurtful.

I found something funny and posted it. That's that.

Oh I thought a midwife acquaintance told you.

What you have to realise is that there have been a lot of similar tales.

Yes this morning she had mentioned to me a midwife friend of hers had delivered this baby over the weekend and I said what really and she said yes! I couldn't believe it but assumed it must be true whilst obviously having slight doubts but just found it funny.
Since posting on here I've seen my pal was obviously pulling my leg, I don't even know if she has a midwife friend, but regardless found it funny.

Never mind

Ex DP worked with someone called Fuk Yu. Tis true, and funny.

Yes, Gina to rhyme with mynah, exactly. No idea why. This wasn't a 'friend of a friend' situation, I met her loads of times and that was definitely how it was pronounced.

Sparkly, Honoria has been around since ancient Rome, and is pronounced 'On-OH-ria' (to rhyme with Gloria), so not remotely like gonorrhoea.

OP, not to worry, but the next time a friend of a friend supposedly passes on a baby called Vagina/La-da/the babysitter with the clown statue in the baby's bedroom etc etc, check it out on Snopes!

I was wondering that gaspode.

We don't have registrars saying 'meh, don't like that' in this country.

So if she had the full version would Georgina have rhymed with mynah? Even odder! But a very brief sojourn on the Baby Names threads here suffices to show that people can indeed be very odd about names.

She's dancing dangerously close to the 'guess what a stupid migrant said/did' genre of 'humour'

What???

This place sometimes...

What a fucking stupid comment fidel. Unnecessarily insulting as well. No need.

SIL is a Registrar. She says she cannot refuse a name (except, I believe, in very extreme circumstances), but sometimes has to explain gently to the parents that their chosen name does not translate well in to English.

She works in a major UK city, so will often see people who have chosen what is a beautiful name in their own language - but not so much in English. If they still want the name after SIL's explanation, then they still have it however.

I had a colleague called Ufuk. I managed to work with him for over a year without referring to him by name out loud.

He was a lovely bloke.

Probably Vagena or something that sounds similar and could be a name in some countries, or a myth.

Re 'Gina pronounced to rhyme with Mynah' - I know it isn't normally pronounced like that, but it was in this case. She's probably long since shuffled off the mortal coil, like my mum, but I might be able to dig up a few neighbours who knew her if I went up there for a couple of days and did a thorough investigation. Or you could just take my word for it, as it was only a passing comment in answer to 'Who on earth would call their child VaGina?' and we've now established that probably they didn't.

Regina is sometimes pronounced re-gyna instead of re-geena. Don't know why anyone would choose that pronunciation though!

What a fucking stupid comment fidel

Oh really?

So the story isn't uncannily like the 'Migrant named their baby Chlamydia lolz' story so beloved of Britain First and EDL and so on?

I'm with Fidel1ne. Not one person with an ounce of intelligence would believe a story like this.

No-one has even mentioned migrants fidel1ne, get a grip
Bet you're wishing you hadn't bothered now OP