My family carries names like Deloris Delrio, Galileo, Herschel, Nonaine, Gilette, Olivine, Tekla, and many others I can't remember without consulting the family tree. My parents and their siblings don't go by their given names for a variety of reasons. My dad goes by his mother's maiden name as his first name, having ditched his given middle name and initialised his first name. My mother goes by her first name professionally, but her family calls her...well, basically a homonym of my father's chosen name. Not that his family calls him that--he gets called Moore because he has a brother that goes by Les.
Zoe: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let 'em know where you are. Mal: Whoo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah, you do! Come on! Come on! Aaah! Whoo-hoo! Zoe: Of course, there are other schools of thought...
'The Message'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2009 5:48:25 pm PST #38 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sarameg - Jan 07, 2009 5:50:06 pm PST #39 of 30000
I always think of your family when the name convo comes up, ita.
Typo Boy - Jan 07, 2009 5:53:01 pm PST #40 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Herschel
No one in your family tree was named Herschel Opostrolier were they?
Hil R. - Jan 07, 2009 5:53:31 pm PST #41 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My family's names are fairly boring, except for one side, where I realized that there were at least three boys named Hermann Stern born within ten years of each other in a village of only 78 people.
§ ita § - Jan 07, 2009 5:55:00 pm PST #42 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Who's Opostrolier? Actually, the Herschel is Herschel Galileo--a lurking astronomy buff, I suppose.
I always think of your family when the name convo comes up, ita.
Jamaicans be crazy.
Pix - Jan 07, 2009 5:58:23 pm PST #43 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
That you should be named Not!Prudent?
Ha!
JenP - Jan 07, 2009 5:58:51 pm PST #44 of 30000
The most stunning (to me) of my family names is Catherinus. I know it's a great-grandfather - I think my father's father's father.
Off to bed. Name day in Natter was a fun day to have off.
Typo Boy - Jan 07, 2009 5:59:38 pm PST #45 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Herschel Opostrolier was one of the greatest jester in Jewish history. Not seriously asked, I always forget he is not that well known cause I grew up with him. Actually there are lots of Jews who never heard of him, so it was an unjustifiably obscure joke.
dcp - Jan 07, 2009 6:00:07 pm PST #46 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I mean, great-grandpa was Eber, and I can only guess if that's another phonetic spelling for something French.
Might be short for Eberhart/Eberhard/Eberhardt. I've also got a couple of guys named Trieber and one named Reber in my genealogy file.
The ones I boggle at are when titles get used as first names. Examples from my (extremely extended) family file: Admiral, Baron, Bishop, Colonel, Commodore, Earl, Judge, King, Lady, LeRoy, Major, Marquis, Marshal, Master, Princess, Queen, Royal, Duke, General, Major, Pope, Squire, Sid, Sargeant/Sergeant, Priest, Deacon.
Earl and Duke and Leroy and Sid are pretty common now, but the rest? Too weird.
meara - Jan 07, 2009 6:09:33 pm PST #47 of 30000
I met a guy (who'd be early 30s now) who was named SIR, at a scholarship weekend, before I started college. Like, we were looking at the list of participants and went "...he's not seriously a knight, is he?" and then realized no, his parents had named him Sir. I guess they figured that way it'd always sound like he was being respected...