Roll Call.... "Unpronounceable, Painfully"

O to be a student! Listening to the teacher take roll, waiting for your name to be read, a stay of execution before a test.

O to be a substitute teacher! Taking roll is the test.

Every day as a substitute I'm faced with roll call, a collection, of what I'm told, are names. They look like a near random arrangement of letters; I'm convinced the attendance office is using World War 2 enigma machines. I have to slog my way thru, butchering first names, and mangling last names; I'm doing a poor job convincing these kids I'm an adequate sub. I also realized, had I not seen the name in context, I would have not been able to determine if it were a first or last name.

I thought maybe you'd like to join in the fun. Below is a list of names. I'm not revealing if the following is a first name, last name. You have to decide. Let me know the results you get, I'll reveal the actual first/last name breakdown in a later blog. I think this'll be a fun experiment. Oh, and the following list was taken from one period.

Beresford
Azusa
Nikolay
Nasim
Vyacheslav
Yong-o
Yurixel
Alona
Ruslana
Ihar
Gurpreet
Vikramjeet
Yesenia
Igor
Shahub
Serhiy
Liudmilla
Sohui
Yekateri
Konstantin

Phew! That's a mouthful. Now, I'll leave you in peace to determine which are first names, and which are last names.