Friday, April 08, 2005

That's probably a nice name in another language.

Some interesting names I've come across.

A friend of mine had a student last year named Gunit (goo-neet). This was in a 7th or 8th grade class and this was a small little Indian girl who was not quite Americanized. All the kids in the class would get really excited when she would put her work on the board and write her name next to it. As she would go back to her desk all the kids would go, "g-g-g-g-g-g-g-G-Unit." Apparently she never quite got it.

An ESL teacher in my school has a student named Hardik (har-deek) who's either from India or Bnagladesh. Since all the students in the class are learning English, none of them really find it strange to mispronounce his name to sound like "hard dick". The teacher doesn't want to tell him what his name means, so I guess he'll find out some other way.

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Oh my lord... I have a cousin named Hardik. His mom finally saw the light when she was registering him for kindergarten and changed his middle name to Harry and made sure that came first on his records. He didn't get bugged and now, as a teen, LOVES his name.

The most precious part is that his full name is Harry Hardik (our surname).
 
By which I mean first name Harry, middle name Hardik, and then our surname. Word!
 
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