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I often use strange or unusual names for my characters, so yes, I guess I would :)
I read on a blog once (haven't read all the amazon thread) about a heroine called 'Belly'. The reviewer said she couldn't take her seriously.
Shaun wrote: "I often use strange or unusual names for my characters, so yes, I guess I would :)"You grew up in a graveyard though, so Dank to you is like everyone else's Rosie
Who was that character whose name was the noise his father made during conception/death..... Garp?
I remember reading a book many years ago (long enough that I don't remember the title or who wrote it. But it was one of the standards of Apocalyptic/Dystopian fiction at the time). Anyhow, the hero's name was Cadillac, and one of the other characters went by the name of Mac Truck...
The original thread I linked to was on the romance forum, and specifically talking about romance books. Not much romance in the name Dank, but I could see it working in other genres...
Dank is the friend of the hero who is trying to find out who murdered his wife & kids and then starts to suspect Dank and the reader is led to suspect but then turns out they didn't do it after all
I've just read a YA paranormal romance where the lead male was called Dank.Kind of fitted the character but from a romance perspective I just had to ignore that that was his name because I think it's awful.
It makes me think of my favourite Goons quote - "the dungeon was dark, dank and donk" !
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I must say one name that really threw me when I was reading 'Dombey and Son' is the hero's name: Wally.Every time I read it I thought: stupid!
haha...and yet it is just short for Walter! but I see what you mean!
My minions don't have names. They don't understand the concept. I just point and say 'Hey you' when I want one.
Walter was a name of considerable nobility at the time.I wonder how some of the modern names will sit on grannies and grandads. Kylie for instance.
And short for Wallace. My dad's name was Wallace...
Ignite wrote: "Walter was a name of considerable nobility at the time.I wonder how some of the modern names will sit on grannies and grandads. Kylie for instance."
Lol!
Mind you, if it were in German, Dank would almost be thanks. Always makes me smile when I write 'Gift' on the customs slip for parcels sent abroad. German for poison. Still they seem to get thru ok.
Karen wrote: "Mind you, if it were in German, Dank would almost be thanks. Always makes me smile when I write 'Gift' on the customs slip for parcels sent abroad. German for poison. Still they seem to get thru ok."Lol!
Karen wrote: "Mind you, if it were in German, Dank would almost be thanks. Always makes me smile when I write 'Gift' on the customs slip for parcels sent abroad. German for poison. Still they seem to get thru ok."Just don't send them any 'mist'.
Wunderbar. Makes the phrase 'scotch mist' all the more potent.
produced by all those highland coos!
I get all my character names from "friends of friends" lists on Facebook. If I need something more exotic, I do the same thing on Twitter...
My publisher told me off on VM for having more than one Welsh Character called 'Dai'.In vain, I protested that I know od a whole street full of 'Dai's round here.
I suppose it helps if you all come home drunk from the pub. Doesn't matter which house you go in, you can get told off all the same.
Good grief, there was on the other week and it was quite possible the male-st name ever for a female character.I wouldn't say it was 'bad' because rock on any name you want but it was ANNOYING to read.
Doing our family history research, we've got quite a few 'interesting' Welsh names - Eurgan crops up quite a bit (she's a Welsh saint), and Othneil (Biblical). Don't think I've ever come across them in fiction. Yet.
Yozzer.There was also this book I read a while ago which specifically says how you pronounce his name 3 CHAPTERS IN.
You cannot even imagine how annoying that is.
His name was Adin. I started off pronouncing it AY-Din but 3 chapters in she tells us you need to pronounce it AH-Din - drove me crazy!
I try and pick charcter names that invoke animpression of the character. This sometimes changes halfway throughthe novel, which can be a redrafting nightmare
If you use Word you can use the 'replace' feature.
Karen wrote: "Doing our family history research, we've got quite a few 'interesting' Welsh names - Eurgan crops up quite a bit (she's a Welsh saint), and Othneil (Biblical). Don't think I've ever come across the..."I have also come across some weird and wonderful names whilst researching my family history. If anyone wants they are welcome to use any of them ..............here is a short list for you to start with
Obededom
Obstrupus
Friend
Mahala
Farewell
Bathia
Christiana Burgle
Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "Yozzer.There was also this book I read a while ago which specifically says how you pronounce his name 3 CHAPTERS IN.
You cannot even imagine how annoying that is.
His name was Adin. I started o..."
I read that too Elle (although for the life of me cant remember what book it was now) and pronounced it Ay din in my head too
I found it hard to get my head around it, that Anne, of Green Gables fame called one of her sons Shirley - I know that she was naming him after her surname, but it's not very masculine!! Also reminds me of Airplane when the doctor, Leslie Nielson, keeps replying after anyone says "Surely you can't be serious..." - "Don't call me Shirley!"
Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "Yozzer.There was also this book I read a while ago which specifically says how you pronounce his name 3 CHAPTERS IN.
You cannot even imagine how annoying that is.
His name was Adin. I started o..."
I have a character who pronounces his name differently to the way it's spelt. But he tells you that every opportunity he gets! It's spelt Bumpenny, but I'll leave you to figure out the pronunciation... ;)
That would do my head in Tim. It completely WRECKS your flow of reading.
Karen (Kew) wrote: "I found it hard to get my head around it, that Anne, of Green Gables fame called one of her sons Shirley - I know that she was naming him after her surname, but it's not very masculine!! Also remin..."HAHA! Aw, I'm not going to be able to read that again without laughing !!
Karen (Kew) wrote: "I found it hard to get my head around it, that Anne, of Green Gables fame called one of her sons Shirley - I know that she was naming him after her surname, but it's not very masculine!! Also remin..."I think the only man I've heard of named Shirley was a wrestler...I think it was Big Daddy, real name Shirley Crabtree.
It's like John Wayne's real name was Marion Morrison.
Emma (The Underwear Queen) wrote: "Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "Yozzer.There was also this book I read a while ago which specifically says how you pronounce his name 3 CHAPTERS IN.
You cannot even imagine how annoying that is.
H..."
I think you might be remembering Adin from Broken City, Emz! ;-P
I don't think it's the same book Em!! This one is not something you'd read!!!
Sara wrote: "If you use Word you can use the 'replace' feature."I've always written on my apple mac on Quark Express (a page layout programme for print/design not a word processing programme). Only just getting into word, and found that feature. Should have said it used to be a nightmare.
Sara wrote: "If you use Word you can use the 'replace' feature."Need to be careful using the 'replace' though, as I found when I changed a name from Grace to May. Disgrace then became dismay...
I have used one of our ancestors names tho, as 'Eugenia' took my fancy.
Karen (Kew) wrote: "I found it hard to get my head around it, that Anne, of Green Gables fame called one of her sons Shirley - I know that she was naming him after her surname, but it's not very masculine!! Also remin..."My uncle's name was Shirley.
Geoff (G. Robbins) (The noisy passionfruit) wrote: "Karen (Kew) wrote: "My uncle's name was Shirley"
*hides*
*hides*
I was reading for someone once who kept saying lead when he meant led. I suggested he went carefully with the 'replace' feature or all his roofs would leak!
Hehe Vanessa, I was going to mention Big Daddy's real name.I have to say it takes me ages to come up with an appropriate name. I believe I have a corker for the MC of my next series! :-)
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