All right, this isn't exactly Nobel Prize material here, but what can I say, I'm a sucker for this brand of dumb humor: Beautiful Stuff has posted a Ridiculously Large List of Silly Names, with links to still more silly names at the bottom of the page. (I search in vain, however, for Claude Balls, author of The Tiger's Revenge.)
Posted by languagehat at January 30, 2004 04:31 PMOral Vest, here in Portland.
Posted by: zizka at January 31, 2004 12:10 AMLived quite close to a certain C. Wright, Optician.
Posted by: Marco at January 31, 2004 12:38 AMOne of my Korean students chose her English name as Easy. To top it off, she is really hot! When I finally got around to telling her the connotations of her name, she turned every shade of red under the book.
Can't have your students travelling to Canada with an English name of Easy.
Posted by: Blinger at January 31, 2004 05:33 AMHee. I always wanted to change my last name to "Reckonwith."
Posted by: Amanda at February 1, 2004 12:51 AMHa!
Posted by: language hat at February 1, 2004 08:58 AMI got a laugh this past holiday season when my sister opened the local phone book (Cape Cod) and discovered both "Al Cohol" and "C. Breeze".
Posted by: Going Dotty in Kansas at February 2, 2004 04:56 PMi went to a performance of "la gran scena opera company" here in DC a few years ago and now remember the "great hungarian tenor" in the cast: fyodor szedan! hahaha!
Posted by: JayJ at February 4, 2004 02:09 AM