Other than the standard Wang and Dong (and one with the alternative spelling Dung) I knew a Dickson who worked with a Cox. And one salesman with a normal last name "Ashman" and a first name starting with R whose company gave him the email address "rashman" rather than "ashmanr".
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Fagot. Nice guy, but God damn is that name unfortunate.
Fa-go?
I once met a guy by the name of Paul Sack. We were teenagers, and he was fortunately at peace with it.
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I remember someone was on Forensic Files pretty often, they either had the last name "Dickgardender" or their name was "Dick Gardener".
- Trust Unworried. Full name.
- My dear friend Thomas Dyck married his highschool sweetheart, Annie(Anita) Savage. They were going to hyphenate the surnames for the lulz. Yes, Anita Savage-dyck.
- Someone with a first-name sounding like 'offence' is messaging me on LinkedIn. It's for a weird "we'll maybe pay you for open-source work if we like it" bait/switch.
Wankhade
Pronounced 'wank a day'?
I don't know. I only message this chap on teams. I've never heard his name verbally before.
Reed. Her first name starts with a B. So her email is BReed@****** hahahah. And she's a grade school teacher
When I worked in a university one of the students in the Education department, specializing in High School teaching, was Ms. Assman.
I worked with a vendor years ago with the last name Hart. Same email address convention, his first name was Sean. shart@*****
Hahahahahaha that might be worse. I always wonder why they don't make exceptions to these shitty emails. At least put a period or something!
Is that JKR
Hoare
Ross. Doesn't sound bad until you're called Gina and the company email is "first letter of the name+surname" (GRoss@...)
Hitler. And he drove a lime green cybertruck.
I worked with someone at an international company whose surname meant βshitβ (verb) in my native language.
I wonder how names like that came to be in countries where the dominant language and the language of the name its in are the same
Who just names themself shit?
In this case the colleague was not from my country and not aware of the meaning his surname had here, but now that you mention itβ¦
There have been cases of forced surname registration for cultures and populations that historically did not have them or who did not want to identify themselves, so these people chose silly names, either not realizing or not caring that they would become permanent.
Hogg.
I once knew a guy called Wayne Triest, which translates to "cry sad" in Dutch
Funny, isnt tristesse french for sadness? Probably both derived from Latin or something
Ye, same root, quite some overlap between the languages
I've known of people named: *Left Ball *Right Ball - the brother of Mr Left Ball above *Two people named Pussy - pronounced Pu-See
I've also heard of these, but can't confirm if they are actually names or just interesting thoughts on names: *Peter Hollowpeter *Iva Hollowpeter