Ooh, I really like Evelyn Lastname. It has a very nice flow.

When my niece was born, the restricted zone was her grandmothers' names. Both grew up hating their first names and basically said, we love ya hon, but if you name her after us we're gonna haunt you till you die.

Which British book/movie was it where someone thought Clitoris sounded like a lovely girl's name?

Well, it does!

"Shirley Valentine"

Which British book/movie was it where someone thought Clitoris sounded like a lovely girl's name?

I think that was Shirley Valentine.

Seinfeld did a variation on that in one episode. He started dating a woman and blanked on her name. When he tried to start conversations that would cause her to mention her own name, the closest she came was mentioning that she was teased about it, by people rhyming it with the name of a female body part. He kept thinking "Mulva". At the end of the episode, she realizes he can't remember her name, and storms off in a huff, and then he realizes it is Delores.

then he realizes it is Delores.

It took me years to figure out what female body part would rhyme with "Dolores," because I pronounce "clitoris" as clit-er-is, with maybe a faint stress on the first syllable. I assume that other people pronounce it cli-TOR-isss? Because that's the only thing that makes sense.

I had the same exact problem, Steph. In fact, I think someone ended up telling me!

Delores

Now there's a name that's been badly mistreated by the English language. In Spanish, "Dolores" is lovely and meaningful, but "D'LORis" has no hope of ever sounding good. It's doomed to truckstop-waitressdom forever.

I had the same exact problem, Steph. In fact, I think someone ended up telling me!

Yeah, I think that ultimately I had to ask someone (with great sheepishness).

Tep is me. Again. Poor Tep. But that must be it, for the woman's name thing. One last way that I'm still vanilla is I can't remember saying it ever.