How to pronounce this name

[Senior Citizen]

OKAY. How would you pronounce this child's name: "Le-a" ???

Leah?? NO

Lee - A?? NOPE

Lay - a?? NO

Lei?? Guess Again.

This child attends a school in Livingston Parish, LA. Her mother is irate because everyone is getting her name wrong.

It's pronounced "Ledasha", When the Mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she said, "the dash don't be silent."

SO, if you see something come across your desk like this please remember to pronounce the dash.
If they ax you why, tell them the dash don't be silent.

 

[Senior Citizen]

OKAY. How would you pronounce this child's name: "Le-a" ???

Leah?? NO

Lee - A?? NOPE

Lay - a?? NO

Lei?? Guess Again.

This child attends a school in Livingston Parish, LA. Her mother is irate because everyone is getting her name wrong.

It's pronounced "Ledasha", When the Mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she said, "the dash don't be silent."

SO, if you see something come across your desk like this please remember to pronounce the dash.
If they ax you why, tell them the dash don't be silent.

 

[SmithEC]

Louisiana must be one of those states where you pay by the letter (or character) when a birf certficate be produced.

The mother was just trying to save money when the child was born.


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[2Loud4You]

Yeah, that one has been around a few times. The boss plays tennis with a guy who has a hyphenated last name so they make sure "the dash don't be silent" to screw with him.

 

[Tom M]

One of my bosses had a hyphenated last name. We just called her "Dash". I can't imagine someone using punctuation as part of a legal name, though.

 

[lcdrdanr]

Probably no worse than R J Jones, a fellow with no name, just initials.
Went in the military and was very careful to write everything as R(only), J(only), Jones.

Ever since then, he has had to answer official correspondance as Ronly Jonly Jones. Even has to list it as an alias.

Dan R

 

[Amici]

Almost certainly just another internet fraud:

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp

Tell us again how cell phones can pop corn...

 

[marine2541]

I have a serious question about African-American names. Where do they come from? A Black comedian once commented that they aren't African. I taught for 34 years and had a young girl in class named Femalia. I wondered if it were because she was female, but I knew what would happen if I asked. A black man in Michigan years ago died during a confrontation with two Detroit police officers. His name was Malice. I wondered why someone would name his child Malice: "the desire to do harm to others."
I don't get it.

 

[walnutred]

There is a driver where I work whose everyone calls Reefer. The man is in his 60s and for a couple years I thought it was a nickname. Then I had reason to review his DOT file and discovered that Reefer is his legal first name.

 

[Muley Gil]

Many years ago, a fellow police officer told me about twin brothers whose names were pronounced "O-RON-gelo" and "La-MON-gelo". However, the spellings were Orangejello and Lemonjello!

Naturally, I told him he was full of it, but he insisted it was true.

A few years later, there was a burglar alarm at the high school, and while checking the office, I saw a list of graduates hanging on the wall.

Sure enough, both names were listed!

I went and found Joe and apoligized.

 

[paladin42]

The "42" is pronounced "Have Gun, Will Travel".

 

[marine2541]

Originally posted by Muley Gil:
Many years ago, a fellow police officer told me about twin brothers whose names were pronounced "O-RON-gelo" and "La-MON-gelo". However, the spellings were Orangejello and Lemonjello!

Naturally, I told him he was full of it, but he insisted it was true.

A few years later, there was a burglar alarm at the high school, and while checking the office, I saw a list of graduates hanging on the wall.

Sure enough, both names were listed!

I went and found Joe and apoligized.

This is the best I've heard yet!

 

[gunsmith11]

some parts of our population really like the names that start with La something, of course the spelling is usually stupid, but what do you expect, love reading the name tags on store clerks, it is always good for a smile

 

[Stevens]

I have a serious question about African-American names. Where do they come from?

I have heard several times that the residents and nursing staff in the hospitals often suggest these names. Kind of a competition to see who can get them to use the craziest name maybe someting like GENNY TALIA Jefferson. No idea if it is true or not. My Daughter in law is an OBGYN, maybe I'll ask her one day.
Steve

 

[okie john]

It's pronounced "Ledasha", When the Mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she said, "the dash don't be silent."

Mama must have been a Smith collector.

Why?

'Cause the dash don't be silent when you're talking about Smiths, either. One of my favorite Smiths for carrying is my twenty-nine-dash-two. But for hunting deer, I prefer my six-twenty-nine-dash-four.

And so on.


Okie John

 

[SmithEC]

Keep it up with the replies like that and somebody is gonna' come along and move this thread over to the S&W Revolvers section.


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[okie john]

I won't let it happen again.


Okie John

 

[David LaPell]

Wow, wait until I try pronouncing my wife's last name, she kept her last name and added mine, but its not a dash,(she calls it a hyphen). When she got married, she got hyphenated. If we ever get divorced for some unknown reason, she will get dehyphenated.

 

[David Sinko]

I've known a few people who pronounce punctuation when they talk, "comma" and "period" specifically. They do that when they want to make themselves appear smarter, yet they really have no idea what the hell they're talking about.

One of the most tragic last names I've ever seen belonged to a cute little blonde girl named Swallow. She did the unthinkable and enlisted in the Navy. She was at the language school in Monterey, CA, the same time I was and she was called Seaman Swallow. She took a whole lot of abuse over that.

Dave Sinko

 

[Guest]

Back when this Hyphenated Name thing was just getting started I was talking to a very good friend who is a Professional and has her PHD and has written a number of papers. She talked about the idea that if she ever got married she would have to hyphenate her last name. I made the comment that I thought the Hyphenated Name things was total non-sense and she asked why? I told her to think about it for a minute; she could always maintain her "Professional Name" and there would be nothing wrong with that. But, I also mentioned that if we were to get married and Hyphenate our names which would end up being K23456-L12345678 then we'd soon begin running out of space when filling out documents because most of them just aren't made for that many letters. I went beyond and asked what she thought would happen if our kids got married to someone who's parents had also chosen the Hyphenated name route???

K23456-L2345678-LaPell-Z234567 (David, sorry for the reference but you were handy). Of course, we could pronounce it "K23456dashL2345678dashLaPelldashZ234567" just for entertainment purposes!!!