Name of the Year 2018

[John]

This year's list is, somehow, probably better than last year's.

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Early favourites are Jimbob Ghostkeeper and Mahogany Loggins, but once again there isn't a bad one in the bunch.

[Magic]

It's like a combination of my portmanteaus from the football threads.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's like a combination of my portmanteaus from the football threads.

Absolutely not, these names are actually good.

[John]

It's like a combination of my portmanteaus from the football threads.

In what way?

[wullie]

We had Duckens Nazon on loan, apparently his first name is pronounced 'Dukes'. Dead to me from then on.

[Ian]

No place for this guy?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equanimeous_St._Brown

Fuck off.

[Pleb]

How do you vote?

[John]

No place for this guy?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equanimeous_St._Brown

Fuck off.

He might have been in a previous version. They've been doing it for years.

[John]

How do you vote?

Www.nameoftheyear.com

Boats Botes won last year's edition.

[Ian]

He might have been in a previous version. They've been doing it for years.

He's in the NFL draft this year but given some of the obscure shit they dredged up in the last two years brackets it's possible they had him as a college or high school player or something.

[John]

I've looked back at the 2016 list and he isn't there either. I'd put money on him being in next year's. The 2016 one has alerted me to the existence of Bevis Mugabe though, which should really have called a halt to the whole enterprise. That's the winner.

I reckon there are plenty of names this year that are heavily underseeded. Yo'Heinz Tyler and Obra Kernodle IV being in the bottom quarter of their respective sections seems as mad as the names themselves.

[mugbull]

Why is Lukas Chalupa in this? Pretty standard Czech name. Idk if it’s because it’s got a lol cadence when you say it in English but it’s def the weakest of them all

[ItalAussie]

Tuna Altuna is my low-key favourite.

[Spikey M]

Where do I move to to have Dr. Dimple Royalty as my GP?

[Giggles]

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[Ian]

He ought to go work in America with that name, don't see a problem at all.

I encountered somebody, also American, whose real life surname is "Bonzo."

[Offshore Toon]

I have a Bangladeshi mate called Monzoor who once got called Bonzo at work by a customer, so that's his new name and he hates it.

[Ian]

:D

I'd like to think if I'd ever heard somebody tell me their name and I thought I'd heard "Bonzo" I'd assume I'd heard wrong.

[wullie]

Someone at work is called Ding Ding. I assumed it was that they'd mistakenly set their preferred name as their surname also but no

[SvN]

We had a guy called Bhupinder at work a few years ago, and one client called him "Burrito".

[Jimmy Floyd]

There is a certain category of person in this country who is psychologically unable to compute non-English names, even if they're ridiculously easy. It actually pisses me off. 'Bhupinder' is a classic example, it's the easiest thing in the world to read and say, but they just can't process it. It's not dyslexia, or else multi-syllable English names, or words like 'thoroughbred' would also be hard for them.

There's a guy who comes on the Football Weekly podcast sometimes, whose name escapes me, who does it as well. It's unbelievably annoying to listen to.

[Ian]

I'm trying to think who that is but I reckon at least 30% of football pundits / commentators in this country are still pronouncing Solskjaer whichever way they decided back in 1996.

[Shindig]

I heard an American the other week refer to Trafalgar Square as Truffle Gar.

[Giggles]

I'm trying to think who that is but I reckon at least 30% of football pundits / commentators in this country are still pronouncing Solskjaer whichever way they decided back in 1996.

At the time of his signing wasn’t Fred supposed to be something like Freshay in reality too?

[Ian]

Really?? If so that's totally escaped me.

[Giggles]

Almost: https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/soccer-news/how-correctly-pronounce-freds-name-12655990

Fucking hell that website is a shit show.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If you go by Tim Vickery logic then Fred would be Fre-dji, or maybe even F-he-dji.

That stuff is fine though, just say it in English, but people even still struggle with 'Jose Mourinho' sometimes.

[Giggles]

I also had missed the little nugget about Willian being oo-ill-yan instead of will-yan.

[wullie]

We still get people arguing over Ndlovu being Und-luv or nud-luv or possibly neither, so signing Viktor Gyokeres seems a cruel trick to play.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ndlovu is as it's spelled. The und-luv stuff was very confusing, though I suppose we all need a bit more und-love in our lives.

[Raoul Duke]

There was an article about this on The Guardian the other day: link (https://www.theguardian.com/football/the-set-pieces-blog/2021/sep/30/how-pronounce-footballers-names-bruno-fernandes-gianluigi-buffon-wojciech-szczesny) - Derek Rae always seems to do a pretty good job with his Bruno Fernandsch stuff

[Jimmy Floyd]

Emmanuel Ebway is the hill I will always die on. There is no oo in that name, nor in names like it.

Similarly, Diop / Diouf / Diallo etc all start with a J, not 'Di'.

[Pepe]

Many people struggle with my name (José) around here. It might be the most common name in the US by now, ffs.

[Ian]

I don't have this but I do have people who aren't of the UK assuming that for some reason I don't bother capitalising my name and emailing me "Hi Lan."

[Pepe]

Lan. :D

[Giggles]

Many people struggle with my name (José) around here. It might be the most common name in the US by now, ffs.

Hose-ay? Or is there another way?

[Pepe]

Hoss-eh, I guess.

I don't care how people pronounce it, but when someone asks my name and I tell them and they have a blank look on their faces. Surely you've heard that name by now, right? So many times I have to spell it.

[Spikey M]

Maybe you're saying it wrong?

[Pepe]

That is a possibility that I will need to consider.

Speaking of names, my sister will have her second son soon, and she is calling him Kai Tatum. :face:

[Ian]

That is, objectively, an atrocious name for a child.

[Pepe]

Imagine him, twenty years from today, trying to convince people that he is half mexican.

[Guybrush]

There is a certain category of person in this country who is psychologically unable to compute non-English names, even if they're ridiculously easy. It actually pisses me off. 'Bhupinder' is a classic example, it's the easiest thing in the world to read and say, but they just can't process it. It's not dyslexia, or else multi-syllable English names, or words like 'thoroughbred' would also be hard for them.

There's a guy who comes on the Football Weekly podcast sometimes, whose name escapes me, who does it as well. It's unbelievably annoying to listen to.

This drives me mad. There's a guy who does the post where I work and every time I hand him a parcel or letter, he reads out the name on it and tries (and fails) to say it. Today I sent one for a Parminder Khalsa and he stared at and went, "Who have we got now? P... Pander Kashal? Sure that's not a curry?"

Get fucked.

[Foe]

Bring back the Bill and Gary’s of the world.

You’d probably get looked at as a wrongun if you named your kid Gary.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I can confirm from doing the junior cricket roll call every year that there is an epidemic of Archies born circa 2008-12. No patient zero has yet been found.

[Ian]

I've probably said this on here before that based on the kids my nieces know Scottish men will largely be called Kaiden or a variant thereof in a few years.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've heard about 100 different variations on my name. I've never really cared if someone got it wrong but I hated if they kept asking me how to pronounce it and then would still proceed to fuck it up.

Teachers who would say they're going to write down how to say it phonetically on the register and then still get it wrong were the worst. I'd usually just say yes when they paused to try and say my name so they wouldn't have to say it.

[randomlegend]

The youngest baby to survive from our NICU is called Lilly Rae Rumbles, which sounds like a boxer from the 80s and is my favourite name ever.

This information is widely available in the media, no confidentiality laws were breached in this post.

[Pen]

Hoss-eh, I guess.

I don't care how people pronounce it, but when someone asks my name and I tell them and they have a blank look on their faces. Surely you've heard that name by now, right? So many times I have to spell it.
No way Hozay.

[Pen]

Someone at work is called Ding Ding. I assumed it was that they'd mistakenly set their preferred name as their surname also but no
I’ve seen a Win Win Nokia, unlucky kid.

[Kikó]

Hoss-eh, I guess.

I don't care how people pronounce it, but when someone asks my name and I tell them and they have a blank look on their faces. Surely you've heard that name by now, right? So many times I have to spell it.

Tbh when I spent a year in New York, no one could understand my name was Andrew and not Andre. Fucking Andre, you daft cunts.

[Pepe]

:D

Was it Benny who once got interviewed while in New York and posted a video in here? I remember watching that and not being able to understand a single word he said.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:D

Was it Benny who once got interviewed while in New York and posted a video in here? I remember watching that and not being able to understand a single word he said.

He did indeed.

It was about shopping IIRC.