Try growing up in Appalachia...
*Candy Apples
*E. Harmon (on official paperwork that's "Harmon, E." Say it out loud.)
*Chanda Leer (And her brother King)
*Female Smith (mom saw "female" on the BC and thought the hospital had named her child for her... at least it's pronounced to rhyme with "tamale")
*A girl named "Miss" (the parents hadn't named her when they came home from the hospital, so the daycare workers called her "Miss Jones", which the parents decided was a fine name.)
*Patricia I. Green (look at the initials)
*A football player named Doug Izzy (on his football jersey was "D.Izzy"--dizzy)
*And finally an unfortunate foreign spelling... Luzabet (Teachers pronounced it "Lizabeth", kids pronounced it "loose-a-bet")
Gosh, I know there were more but I can't remember them...
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