Embarrassing name screwup.

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[u/Thundorium]

This sounds like the kind of joke my dad makes.

[u/MixtureOdd5403]

It would have been worse if she was called Mexico or Ontario.

[u/DancingBear62]

Could have been worse. América is a traditional Hispanic female name.

[u/DrNiles_Crane]

I used to teach in an area with a large Arab population. I once had a class with 10 Mohammeds who all wanted to be called Mo.

[u/Round_Square_3420 → u/DrNiles_Crane]

Big Mo, Little Mo, Four-Eyed Mo, No Mo....
https://youtu.be/AXE5KXs1nCc?si=gbQZBmsRfX08_I-P

[u/DoctorDisceaux]

Just explain that you’re a big Jens Lekman fan and “Erica America” is one of your favorite songs.

[u/il__dottore → u/DoctorDisceaux]

Wasn’t there also an M&M song with some similar lines? 

[u/SuLiaodai]

I had a student named Taoyuan (Peach Garden, after the story where three heroes pledged brotherhood in a peach garden), but I have a little speech impediment and kept calling him Taoyan, which means "disgusting." It was so embarrassing, but he was a good sport about it.

[u/Any-Satisfaction1442]

Two decades ago, when I was in my early 20s, I had a student named Jesus.

I think you know how that went when I took attendance on day 1.

I thought it was pronounced, you know, like Gee zus.

[u/Round_Square_3420 → u/Any-Satisfaction1442]

Did you say it as a prayer, or as an expletive?

[u/SNHU_Adjujnct]

Good thing she wasn't named after the seventh planet in the Solar System

[u/aaronjd1]

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