heh, well I've heard people pronounce that 2 different ways "Michael with an A at the end" and "ma-kay-luh" (sorry about butchering the phonetics of that), but mine's the second pronunciation. My mom just spelled it her own way after she heard the name at the hospital while in labor, so it's unusual that I see anything similar to mine. :)
See, my mom used to volunteer at a Crisis Pregnancy center, and would occasionally take me with her since I was little and babysitter's cost money. Most of her clients that she counseled were very poor, very badly educated young women (mostly black) who had little comprehension of large chunks of the English language and VERY thick Southern accents. (She encountered one named "Female" - say it: Fuh-mah-lee - but that's another story.)
This one young lady had been seeing her for some time, and was determined to keep her baby, which, up until the last minute was thought to be a very large boy. Instead she ended up with a pair of very large boys. (YIPES.)
She came in to introduce them to my mother, who asked their names, and she proudly announces that she heard these really great names the other day, she LOVED the way they rolled off the tongue so she name her kids Limonjillo (Lemon J-ello) and Oranjillo (Orange J-ello). It took a good long time before anyone present could figure those names out. Yipes.
Where was this center your mom worked at? My fiance used to help babysit for two African-American boys with those names, in Redondo Beach, CA.
Those names are up on snopes (http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm) but I suppose they must be valid; I trust my fiance, and I can't see why you'd lie.
Also, Conuly, didn't we have a very similar discussion in your journal a while ago?
This was in Starkville, MS, though I suppose it's entirely possible the family could have moved. (Or possible another woman gave her children the same names, however unlikely....)
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Date: 2004-12-28 07:58 pm (UTC)"Gracee and her older sister, 5- year-old Makaylah"
that's the closest spelling to my name that I've seen (Makalah).
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Date: 2004-12-28 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-28 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-28 08:01 pm (UTC)(Or MacAylah, I've seen both.)
Or Mikaela!
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Date: 2004-12-28 08:02 pm (UTC)See, now, logically I shouldn't be opposed to new spellings of older names... but, man, it grates on my soul.
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Date: 2004-12-28 08:03 pm (UTC)...True story.
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Date: 2004-12-28 08:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-28 08:14 pm (UTC)See, my mom used to volunteer at a Crisis Pregnancy center, and would occasionally take me with her since I was little and babysitter's cost money. Most of her clients that she counseled were very poor, very badly educated young women (mostly black) who had little comprehension of large chunks of the English language and VERY thick Southern accents. (She encountered one named "Female" - say it: Fuh-mah-lee - but that's another story.)
This one young lady had been seeing her for some time, and was determined to keep her baby, which, up until the last minute was thought to be a very large boy. Instead she ended up with a pair of very large boys. (YIPES.)
She came in to introduce them to my mother, who asked their names, and she proudly announces that she heard these really great names the other day, she LOVED the way they rolled off the tongue so she name her kids Limonjillo (Lemon J-ello) and Oranjillo (Orange J-ello). It took a good long time before anyone present could figure those names out. Yipes.
But it is a true story. Scary as that may seem.
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Date: 2004-12-29 04:11 am (UTC)Those names are up on snopes (http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm) but I suppose they must be valid; I trust my fiance, and I can't see why you'd lie.
Also, Conuly, didn't we have a very similar discussion in your journal a while ago?
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Date: 2004-12-29 07:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-29 11:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-28 08:14 pm (UTC)~_~ Speaking of a grasp of the English language, look who's abusing apostrophes.