Most of my work has been in Human Resources. Below are some of the ones I remember. I had a sheet that I saved assorted names in along with how to pronounce as it is a matter of respect to speak a persons name correctly. Sure wish I could find that now. There were some real tongue twisters I wish I could remember.
Worked for male Colonel in the Army whose first name was June.
Jesus pronounced hey zoo
A man named Celeste - pronounced C Less
Growing up there was a local family with the last name Screws. Went to school with one of the daughters. As I remember she and her family were all good people. Solid citizens. Unfortunately she was constantly being bullied/harassed about her name.
A local family of lawyers with the last name Law
A local family with the last name Blows
Knew a family with the last name Missouri
Knew a family with the last name Brazil like the country
Women named:
Queen
Mercedes - Mer C Dees - Mer as in mercy C as in the letter C and Dees as in the plural of the letter D
Lexis
Lexus
Baby Girl
Precious
Almond
Sky
Santana
Aroma
Angel
Angle
Archie
Augusta
Beautiful
Beauty
Berklee - like the famous music school in Boston
Chablis - like the wine
Candy
Kandy
De’efay pronounced Day E fay
Cat
Charity
Princess
January
China
Conyers
Chyna
Cookie.
Corvairy pronounced Core vary
Yale pronounced Ya Lee - kinda like Ali
India
Ivory and Ivoree
Jazz
Laquanda pronounced La quan da
Shawntay
Shortee
Stormy
Paris
Trip
Regal
Viola - her parents were both classically trained professional orchestra violin players
Men named:
Christmas - never knew Mr Hill to be teased about his name
Artist - pronounced Ar Teese
Pizant - you guessed it -pronounced piss ant
Boogie
Pilot
Columbus
Paris
Montana
Othello
Orlando
Tre - pronounced tray
Trip Day
I’m sure there are many more that I do not recall at the moment.
