Do you think that you can get used to almost any name?

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No matter how strange it may appear at first?

Just thinking of people I've known with unusual names. It didn't take more than a day or two to get used to them.

Examples being a man called Fudge. Another called Elton. (I thought of Elton John for a day or two then it was just his name.) A girl called Sunday. One called London.

Does it take you long to get used to unusual names?

I used to teach a girl with a horrendously racist name
Oswalda-Mosley?
Adolfa-Hitler?

I would guess Aryan. I have actually met a child named this so it isn’t as out there as you’d think. I realise it is actually a real name but why would you, with the connotations it carries?

A girl I was friends with was called Tuesday. It actually really suited her

I knew a Tuesday too! Could this be another ‘small world’ moment? When I knew her mum she had a horse, Tuesday was home schooled. She’d be in her mid-late twenties now.

@MaMelon and @Katefoster, I used to teach a Tuesday years ago. If it’s the same person, she also has unusual middle name/s and surname.

I wish I could remember her surname - it was a v long time ago. I don’t think it would be the Tuesday I knew as she was home schooled (at the time I knew her).

@MaMelon

I wish I could remember her surname - it was a v long time ago. I don’t think it would be the Tuesday I knew as she was home schooled (at the time I knew her).

This was at a university, @MaMelon — and I didn’t know her in person because it was in large lectures, not small group teaching, but I remember uploading her marks because her whole name was so unusual. It would have been somewhere between around 2005 and 2011.

I knew a Wednesday. But she had changed it by deed poll and it went brilliantly with her surname. I was well impressed and loved it.

It would have been somewhere between around 2005 and 2011

I think the Tuesday I knew would have been younger - but it’s possible. I wonder?!

I know a Missy, Sonny , Shelby, Chardonnay, Diamanté I just hate the names, like the children but inside just think 'no' everytime I hear it.

@BajanB

I used to teach a girl with a horrendously racist name Oswalda-Mosley? Adolfa-Hitler?

Nope. It was a racial slur, and I don't see how the parents didn't know it as it's one that's used worldwide.

My nephews (DH brothers kid) has a name which means “wasp” in my second language.
I still can’t think of him without thinking of an annoying wasp buzzing about.