I Can’t Trick You … Or Can I?

Here I am again posting a Foolishness...Or Is It? about names. Please do read on because I have put a different spin on it this time.

Below is a list of ten Modern American Names. As a side note, I gather such names from the Police Reports or the Sports Pages of my local daily newspaper.

Attention Modern American Parent:

If you use these kinds of names, your offspring will either end up in jail or they will sign a multi-million dollar professional sports contract and they will buy you a house.

Those are the chances you take when you choose (or make up) such names.

Here are the ten names I promised. Five are from the Police Reports or from the Sports Pages and five I made up all by myself. Test your skills. Can you tell which ones are real Modern American Names and which ones are Smartfella Made Up Names? ...

Jadeveon or Brundae or Dunchein or Joylinda or Ke$ha or

Lupeleon or Manjit or Doruchia or Shekinna or Monnussia

Do not look at the answer until you have tried to figure them out on your own.

I tried to get the Jeopardy Thinking Tune for you to click on here but the download failed.

Just imagine Alex Trebek humming it to you for a bit and then look at the next paragraph to see which were real names and which ones I made up.

Was not easy was it? The answer is: Every other name, starting with the second name, are the five names I made up.

Go back up and look them over again. I would be willing to bet that you would have been willing to bet I had made up the one with the Dollar Sign in it.

I did not list my favorite name... Tai-ler. It is my favorite because I saw little Tai-ler’s mother interviewed on TV. The interviewer was having trouble with the little fellow’s name so he asked mama how to pronounce it. Mama seemed to get miffed at the interviewer’s ignorance and responded, “The dash is silent!”

Would I kid u?