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Originally Posted by masraum
The real question though is if the baby is named after the car or the band. Either way, "Chevelle" is not really a very good name for a girl, but she probably won't be made fun of as much as "Abcde" or "La-a"
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Have come across a woman named La-a. Only, she got upset when it was mispronounced "La dash a," and would (clearly upset) correct that it is actually "La daa sha." It's a dash, not a daash!
Have also known a caucasian/American guy whose name is spelled Adam. But it's not pronounced "A-dam," but rather "A-dom." He also would get upset when it was invariably mispronounced.
Southwest agent totally wrong for making fun of the name publicly. But if you're gonna have (or your parents are going to give you) some wildly unusual name or a name with some pronunciation that deviates greatly from typical American society/phonics, don't be surprised if people botch it for your entire life. Don't name your kid something like ABCDE (izzat for real, or some sort of typo?), and then get all self-righteous when people don't know it's supposed to be "Ab-si-dee." If you want your kid to be called "Ab-si-dee," then name your kid Absidy, not something eyebrow raising like Abcde.
Nice that we live in a society with the leisure to manufacture such problems in life.