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HelpRe: How much does your accent influence your favourite name choices?
in reply to a message by ShioTanbo1
On the name Lachlan,
There was a boy who came to England from somewhere in Africa. I do not know exactly where and I do not know if Lachlan was his original name or not. He was in my high school and I remember there being a petitian being brought round to stop his family from being deported - and that's most of what I know about the boy.
I bring this up because everybody called him "Laxan" as in "Lack-san". It's only fairly recently (I've been out of high school for nearly half my life now), that I found out his name was actually Lachlan.
Now, I do not know at all if this was an actual pronunciation of Lachlan, or if it was misprounounced in Year 7 and he never corrected anybody because he was too polite and/or embarassed to (presumably) correct the teachers during the first week.
Though, I have to admit, that Lachlan is also hard for me to pronounce and that's probably entirely what happened, somehow. Probably more like Chinese whispers but from 11 year olds mispronouncing the name more and more until you get the "Lax" sound.
I've been half wishing I could bump into him and ask how he's doing and also to put to bed the mystery behind his name lol
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"one particular boogie will move mirror massaging with stirring crepe mixture, positioning loaves while in the furnace then toting items in containers" ~ best Russian daing sites (guest, 198.144.149.xxx) (2020)
Formally PrincessZ and Princess Magpie
There was a boy who came to England from somewhere in Africa. I do not know exactly where and I do not know if Lachlan was his original name or not. He was in my high school and I remember there being a petitian being brought round to stop his family from being deported - and that's most of what I know about the boy.
I bring this up because everybody called him "Laxan" as in "Lack-san". It's only fairly recently (I've been out of high school for nearly half my life now), that I found out his name was actually Lachlan.
Now, I do not know at all if this was an actual pronunciation of Lachlan, or if it was misprounounced in Year 7 and he never corrected anybody because he was too polite and/or embarassed to (presumably) correct the teachers during the first week.
Though, I have to admit, that Lachlan is also hard for me to pronounce and that's probably entirely what happened, somehow. Probably more like Chinese whispers but from 11 year olds mispronouncing the name more and more until you get the "Lax" sound.
I've been half wishing I could bump into him and ask how he's doing and also to put to bed the mystery behind his name lol
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"one particular boogie will move mirror massaging with stirring crepe mixture, positioning loaves while in the furnace then toting items in containers" ~ best Russian daing sites (guest, 198.144.149.xxx) (2020)
Formally PrincessZ and Princess Magpie
