I’m now thinking of that classic post from the old site that shows someone’s painstakingly cursive-written note of the entire text of a bluescreen (the old bluescreen with a lot of characters on screen) for tech support.
And thinking of a slightly more tech inclined grandma who doesn’t quite get all of it having a problem with a torrent and just reading the infohash/magnet link to the ISP’s support call center.
It probably would get her in some hot water, but a first name alone is a gray area. It becomes a definite violation if it’s combined with health information, even as simple “a baby was born here with the name X”. If she just says “I saw a name spelled X” then it may not be a violation of the law, but the hospital would probably still can her for it.
Yeah the other reply noted the same thing. This would have been about ~2015 and she was in pre-k so someone must have named their kid based on the legend. I can't recall if the girl was black or not but I don't think she was.
Only younger generations wear fanny packs “correctly”. They were originally a hip bag that stayed behind you, not something you wore in front of you. Because fanny was slang for ass in America.
So younger generations wear them “wrong” in the sense that they were originally meant to be worn behind you. But “correctly” in the British sense.
I remember reading an article about an airport staff person ( possibly TSA? ) laughing about a little girls name. Same exact name. Crazy stuff that any parent could start their children at square -3 upon being born.
I fully came in here with this name in mind. Lol in the 10 years since I've first heard it, I've never come across anyone else who has heard the same. I somehow hope we're all running into the same Abcde and there aren't just hordes of them out there.
Not so much the spelling, just... I went to school with a girl who's father fled the law and they ended up near us in Canada... they were originally from a trailer park in Tennessee
There's a girl in my kid's class named Eighmee. Pronounced "Amy". I thought it was weird but there's a street in a neighboring town named Eighmee Street.
I would like to provide a counterexample. There are plenty of these people in the US intermountain west, but there are at least some cases where there is no one at fault. Next time you see one of these names without context (though we clearly have the context in this case), before judging, consider Nariaw:
I am a teacher, and one year I found that my roster included a student named "Nariaw". As a public school, we register your student based on what's on the birth certificate. I ask all of my students to pronounce their names for me when I first meet them, for the reason we see in so many of the replies here and with shit like "abcde". However, when this girl came to my class, she said her name was pronounced "Miriam". I spent a good twenty seconds looking at my roster, and had to ask her to spell it for me. I didn't ask any rude and impertinent questions at that point, so it wasn't until a few months later that I got the full story:
Her mother, an immigrant from Ethiopia, was still unfamiliar with Latin script when her daughter was born here in the US. So when she attempted to write out the name, which she wanted to transliterate as "Mariam", she ended up writing only half of the first M, and wrote the second one upside-down. Whoever did the data entry for the government records dutifully recorded the child's name as "Nariaw". Was the mother at fault for being expected to write a name which, while she knew how to represent it in Amharic, she was forced to write in a language in which she was illiterate?
Wow. Yeah, definitely good to be gracious in that situation!
Another is, some cultures, not too far from home - like Irish and Welsh - have names written in ways that look Traighdiegh to English, but are the correct/traditional way to spell it for that culture.
That's super frustrating. The hospital should have easily been able to get someone who had at least a basic grasp of a common language to help ensure they understood the forms and got them filled out correctly.
I would argue that at least 15% of the blame lies with the racist expectation in the US that all names need be anglicized, when we have fucking Unicode. If someone whose second language is English can be expected to be able to pronounce "Rayleigh Monaghan McTavish", then the least that the anglophone people of the US could do is learn to pronounce things in a few other common languages. There is, quite simply, no excuse for the government of the united States, in which there is no official language (even though a traitor, invalidated by the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment, had some fuckwit draft a document trying to declare it without congressional approval), to mandate the use of a single language.
I also had a coworker named America and I'm pretty sure her parents were immigrants - English was pretty clearly not my coworker's first language. I think it works for her situation. (Funny enough, it was her reckless behavior that caused me to spend my last few weeks at that job on light duty...)
There's also America Ferrera, I don't think the name is that weird.
I was briefly married to a Georgia, but the family wasn't Southern. The fathers name was George and that is also what he named his first son, so his first daughter was Georgia.
Never have understood the phenomenon of fathers passing down their name, you've already cursed your child with the family name, why make things harder on the poor whelp?
I used to work with someone who changed a letter for their child’s name, then posted on Facebook moaning cause people spelt it the correct way (Not the way they had spelt it.), in the comments someone posted how they had deliberately spelt their child’s name some different way and were complaining that everyone was spelling it properly. Can’t remember either names or spellings now, this was well over a decade ago.
Hate to pile on, but could have done Jackson and then called him Jax for short just as easily. Hell Dick is short for Richard, short names don't have to be spelled the same.
I know. That is why I said i regret not just naming him Jackson. It's too late now. His passports and legal name in 2 countries are already set. It would be hell to change it now.
The guiness book of records had an entry for the worst spelling in the old days before the book was dumbed down. Trying to spell 'usage' the incorrect attempt was youzitch achieving only one correct letter.
Not a baby name but I worked with a devops engineer who had dyslexia so all of our IaC variable names had misspellings in them. We just lived with it because it would have been expensive to teardown the resources and reprovision them with the correct spellings.
Brayden, Hayden, jayden, tayden, kayden, rayden, shayden, cayden, pretty much the whole alphabet ending in den. And yes I met every single one of these
I have no interest in having children, and if I did I wouldn't name them Tayden, but if somehow both of those things were true, I certainly wouldn't spell it Teighden.
The solution is to put all of the uniqueness in the middle name. Then you still get to feel “special” while not forcing your kid to go by “tragedeigh” or whatever.
When I chose my name - I made my first as milquetoast and appropriate to my age as possible. My middle I went balls out - I guarantee I have a cooler middle name than you do.
Middle name is not a thing where I live. People can have 1 or more given names (I know of people that have 9), but none of these are considered 'middle name'.
That's if you can choose a middle name at all. In many places (including where I am) you only get to choose the given name, then the middle name is for example the father's, and the last name is the family name.
I don't have an issue with that depending on where you are. It's a nice name but lends itself well to a shortening of nahzee. In my area of the US and in the UK they often pronounce Nazi as Naht-zee so I don't think it's as bad as it could be.
Yeah when she said it, it wasn't as bad because this was in Canada and we pronounce it like you guys do, too. It's just that she actually SPELLED it that way. It was so weird.
Now that you spell it out, Absedee (or maybe Abesede?) is actually kind of cute and not too hard to read. The parents could have spelled it phonetically and then later explained it comes from abcde.
"Abesede" is getting too close to "obesity", but I think "Absedee" works. But yeah, people need to stop trying to use letters and symbols to replace the phonemes of that letter's name.
LaQuisha. I think there was an apostrophe or two thrown in there but I don't recall where or even the spelling exactly at that was ~26 years ago in highschool. I just recall the LaQ... There were several that I do not recall specifically ATM that seemed like their folks were trying to find the most unrelated syllables to link into a name. It was funny to me. It was a school in Tennessee designed for Uni prep that was supposed to uplift people in the surrounding poorer black community. There were several black students that acted like they always had a chip on their shoulder (aggravated, just looking for any excuse to argue or fight). These are the kids that typically had the most odd names. It was funny because I viewed them like the inverse of typical white trailer trash also present in the area but not at that school. The rednecks seemed to name all their kids some indecisive hyphenated name like Mary-Ann or Betty-Sue while the equivalently backwards black families went with stuff like Keishfonda and Quinmothy. Like y'all are doing the same thing thinking you're different.
Well, it's not like some with a common name like Michael for instance can ever be really famous. Even less if you have a common surname, like Jackson, or Jordan.
I once had a student named Dominca. It was supposedly pronounced Duh-mawn-i-ca. She would get very irritated that people “didn’t know how to read” when they pronounced it doh-minca
I had a customer once at an old job whose name was spelled Deborah. Seems completely normal until she got super mad at me for calling her "Debra" because I was somehow supposed to know her name was pronounced "Deb-Or-Ah". With the "Or" being stressed.
Never knew anyone with a weird spelling but I knew a dude who had the unfortunate name of Harry Butt. Already bad enough your family name is "Butt" but his parents did him hella dirty naming him Harry.
Was always funny getting a sub thinking he was just fucking with them tho.
I appreciate you posting the snopes. I am more bothered than I probably should be when someone claims this is real and if OP is willing to lie about something so mundane then none of their posts should be believed.
Honestly there is something to the idea of pretending a joke is personal experience, as it's always funnier. Like, instead of saying "so this guy was talking to his neighbor..." I'll say "so I was talking to my neighbor yesterday and.."
The real issue (well besides the possible racist connotations) is this joke is SO overused, this is the fourth time I've seen it while scrolling this thread. At least give a different variation like "-andra" (dashandra) or "beu-ious" (bodacious lmao I'm actually kinda proud of that one).
My mom taught nursing and La-A was one of her students, she said her mother had her at 15 after dropping out of highschool her freshman year and wanted a unique name for her.
Edit Ok wow, I did not know that there was a racist aspect about this name. Sorry I didn't go into more detail originally. She was real, and from what little interaction I had with her she was a very nice and down to earth woman, who put herself through nursing school. I met her at the pinning ceremony because I always ran the audio for it to help my mom out. I didn't get to spend any meaningful time talking to her, but I heard her name called out when it was her turn on stage to get her pin and saw her come up and receive her nursing pin.
Again I had no idea about the racist aspect of this name, if I had I would have either given more detail upfront or just not posted. I've met a handful of people with interesting sounding and spelled names and didn't think anything about it when originally posting. I apologize if anyone felt I was being offensive.
Oh this is way older than 20 years old. My grandpa was telling this joke like 50 years ago. He also was a school teacher, I suspect it has been circulating through schools for the last 60+ years.
What's with the <!--- comments that seem to add a level of snark to the article? Did some editor try an fail to insert these into the html source only?
Nothing could be worse than X Æ A-12.
That is like a grandma reading a hash out loud
I’m now thinking of that classic post from the old site that shows someone’s painstakingly cursive-written note of the entire text of a bluescreen (the old bluescreen with a lot of characters on screen) for tech support.
And thinking of a slightly more tech inclined grandma who doesn’t quite get all of it having a problem with a torrent and just reading the infohash/magnet link to the ISP’s support call center.
...what kinda hash?
Hashashin, get stabbed loser.
Why did I read that in Napoleon Dynamite's voice?
Brownie
like a sha-512 for example, if you are not familiar with the concept. go ahead and google it :)
Yeah that dude is obsessed with x. He slaps it everywhere he can
That's what happens when you prevent your kid from exploring X sites till your adulthood
There are a lot of reasons why musk should be (and soon enough will be) jailed, this is one of them. This is child abuse, literally
In the USA, rich people are quite obviously above the law, so no, I don't think he will.
What makes you so confident?
Can you just use all of unicode in the US for baby names?
"Breighdone" (Brayden) is probably the most egregious one I haven't brain-bleached yet.
My friend works in the billing department of a local hospital, and she will occasionally text me some crazy spellings she comes across.
yeah that's literally a HIPAA violation lol
esp if the spelling is that unique, it's definitely identifying info
It probably would get her in some hot water, but a first name alone is a gray area. It becomes a definite violation if it’s combined with health information, even as simple “a baby was born here with the name X”. If she just says “I saw a name spelled X” then it may not be a violation of the law, but the hospital would probably still can her for it.
La-a (Pronounced La-dash-ah) is the weirdest one I've seen
I've seen that as La-ah. Somehow La-a is so much worse.
Found an interesting snopes article about that.
Seems the article is from 2008, and the La-a I know of was in pre-k in ~2015, so it seems someone named their kid based on the legend.
Seems to be an urban legend tough. Also racist.
https://lemmy.world/comment/17103405
Yeah the other reply noted the same thing. This would have been about ~2015 and she was in pre-k so someone must have named their kid based on the legend. I can't recall if the girl was black or not but I don't think she was.
I've seen one in real life. Maybe they just carried a fake id card as a joke, but this was in a billing department so I'm assuming it was real.
The first time I read that it was le-a , which could be read as lea without the dash
The dash don't be silent
T'Fanny for Tiffany. She's about 30 now, so that was a bad decision from a long time ago.
T'Fanny sounds like the name of a Vulcan stripper lol.
"Live long, t'werk that t'fanny, and prosper 🖖"
Worst lap dance in the quadrant ..... yeah right it was scientifically measured and performed
Hope she never goes to Britain...
How did Americans get fanny backwards but they wear fanny packs correctly?
Only younger generations wear fanny packs “correctly”. They were originally a hip bag that stayed behind you, not something you wore in front of you. Because fanny was slang for ass in America.
So younger generations wear them “wrong” in the sense that they were originally meant to be worn behind you. But “correctly” in the British sense.
Nah they’re called “bum bags”
Abcde (pronounced AB-sid-ee) was certainly memorable if nothing else.
Oh dear lord no
I’ve seen this name also in the wild. Girl was pretty fat too. Poor kid.
I remember reading an article about an airport staff person ( possibly TSA? ) laughing about a little girls name. Same exact name. Crazy stuff that any parent could start their children at square -3 upon being born.
I fully came in here with this name in mind. Lol in the 10 years since I've first heard it, I've never come across anyone else who has heard the same. I somehow hope we're all running into the same Abcde and there aren't just hordes of them out there.
Reminds me of that kids book CDB
This is actually a tuff name
Not so much the spelling, just... I went to school with a girl who's father fled the law and they ended up near us in Canada... they were originally from a trailer park in Tennessee
Her name was "Dollarina"
That name is a trajideh.
Literally the "why did mum name me Rose" meme.
Dollarina Cappocino
Hopefully she didn't become a prostitute
I once met a girl called "Xinhergi" (Synergy).
Looks like its the name of a Daedric lord or something.
Daedric lord of soul crushing corporate vocabulary.
You are thinking about Xivilai from Oblivion, not lords, but daedric dudes who don't hold their punches.
I once met a girl called Xinhergi
Who thrived on late-night energy.
She’d moan and she’d grind,
With a very keen mind
For positions defying liturgy.
This has to be a muskspawn.
There's a girl in my kid's class named Eighmee. Pronounced "Amy". I thought it was weird but there's a street in a neighboring town named Eighmee Street.
Eighew! Ouarew?
Wow. So maybe it wasn't an "I'm so new and unique" Traighdiegh. I wonder what the history of Eighmee Street is.
"Shithead"
Pronounced: shi-THEED
Spelled: Shit Head
How can it be legal to literally name your kid an insult? Child protection gotta intervene.
Parents of Richards are very upset by this.
It's an Indian name, so the spelling is a bit weird.
I'm Shithead and I'm allergic to my tongue
(Piped)
“It’s pronounced “Weener-Slave.””
Jewelee (Julie) because they wanted Jewel in there I guess
It sounds like theres two people named Ellie. One of whom is Jewish.
And they decided to distinguish her by calling her Jew Ellie.
Ah the original working name for the villain of 101 Damnations. Jew Ellie DeVille. That was Walt's contribution.
Even Jewelie would have been better despite being atrocious on its own
Once had a friend who said she had 3 middle names. Then she said what I thought I heard as Julianne. I thought she was joking and laughed at her joke.
Then she got mad, called me stupid, then clarified that her 3 middle names were Jewel Lee Ann.
I still thought she was joking. She was not.
I have a friend with three middle names too but he seemed used to people being confused and just told me where they came from.
Jewel is a perfectly fine name on its own, wtf
Why did I read this in Chris-Chans voice???? Why am I this brainrotted?
For once I’m on the cop’s side.
💀
Omg I didn't even notice that at first
Can we just start using cosmic horror entity names already? Reighfyl is definitely something I could see being some sort of Lovecraftian alien
Think they'll name their next daughter Cheaughtgeughn?
Hah, maybe. I am gunning for just going full tilt and naming their next daughter Shub-Niggurath
Ia! The black goat of the woods with a thousand young! Ia!
Forgive me... is that supposed to be shotgun?
Yeah, at maximum Feloneigh spelling.
It hurt to read, well done
Maybe Caoilfhionn?
Wonder what his wife thinks of this pregnancy
I knew a guy once whose last name was "EA." Two capital letters. He pronounced it "Yeah." His first name was Rodrake.
I guess it wasnt in the name afterall
(Is it "ea sports its in the game or name"?)
E A Sports, its in the blame!
Wasn't it, EA sports, it's in the lame?
EA Sports. It's the same game you bought last year with slightly updated graphics and rosters, but a whole new set of DLC to buy.
E. A. Sports. It's just the same.
Toneigh 🐴🐴🐴. As in Toni or Tony.
Ptoughneigh
Brothers with Phteven
Full name, Toneigh Lynne Groan.
Damn why don't they have a toe emoji.
I would like to provide a counterexample. There are plenty of these people in the US intermountain west, but there are at least some cases where there is no one at fault. Next time you see one of these names without context (though we clearly have the context in this case), before judging, consider Nariaw:
I am a teacher, and one year I found that my roster included a student named "Nariaw". As a public school, we register your student based on what's on the birth certificate. I ask all of my students to pronounce their names for me when I first meet them, for the reason we see in so many of the replies here and with shit like "abcde". However, when this girl came to my class, she said her name was pronounced "Miriam". I spent a good twenty seconds looking at my roster, and had to ask her to spell it for me. I didn't ask any rude and impertinent questions at that point, so it wasn't until a few months later that I got the full story:
Her mother, an immigrant from Ethiopia, was still unfamiliar with Latin script when her daughter was born here in the US. So when she attempted to write out the name, which she wanted to transliterate as "Mariam", she ended up writing only half of the first M, and wrote the second one upside-down. Whoever did the data entry for the government records dutifully recorded the child's name as "Nariaw". Was the mother at fault for being expected to write a name which, while she knew how to represent it in Amharic, she was forced to write in a language in which she was illiterate?
Wow. Yeah, definitely good to be gracious in that situation!
Another is, some cultures, not too far from home - like Irish and Welsh - have names written in ways that look Traighdiegh to English, but are the correct/traditional way to spell it for that culture.
That's super frustrating. The hospital should have easily been able to get someone who had at least a basic grasp of a common language to help ensure they understood the forms and got them filled out correctly.
The fault is 100% with the hospital.
I would argue that at least 15% of the blame lies with the racist expectation in the US that all names need be anglicized, when we have fucking Unicode. If someone whose second language is English can be expected to be able to pronounce "Rayleigh Monaghan McTavish", then the least that the anglophone people of the US could do is learn to pronounce things in a few other common languages. There is, quite simply, no excuse for the government of the united States, in which there is no official language (even though a traitor, invalidated by the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment, had some fuckwit draft a document trying to declare it without congressional approval), to mandate the use of a single language.
That really qogA.
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I haven’t met any one with a terribly spelt name but one girl I worked with was named America. Weird as hell if you ask me
Many people are named after places. This one doesn't feel weird to me atleast
I also had a coworker named America and I'm pretty sure her parents were immigrants - English was pretty clearly not my coworker's first language. I think it works for her situation. (Funny enough, it was her reckless behavior that caused me to spend my last few weeks at that job on light duty...)
There's also America Ferrera, I don't think the name is that weird.
Yup, I've known a Kenya, a Lesotho, and a Latierra (the Earth in Spanish).
If I had to bully her I'd call her Latrine
"You changed your name to Latrine?"
Most places are named after people too
I understand naming a kid after a city or region/state but a country seems a little far.
India is a name I've seen often.
But which America is it? North or south?
They compromised and it's central.
There was a player on Big Brother named America, which was a tiny bit confusing because the show routinely refers to the audience as America
I know a Paris, a Virginia, and a Georgia, just off the top of my head. Location names are weird, but not unheard of.
I was briefly married to a Georgia, but the family wasn't Southern. The fathers name was George and that is also what he named his first son, so his first daughter was Georgia.
Never have understood the phenomenon of fathers passing down their name, you've already cursed your child with the family name, why make things harder on the poor whelp?
Vanity isn't it? Pathetic male vanity. Never hear women doing it do you.
I know plenty of women that carry an old school second name because there grandmother's names are passed down. Like Elisabeth, or Rose or the like.
You must be able to see that giving your daughter your mother's name as a middle name is not at all the same as giving your son your own name?
Fair enoth I guess, it's not the same.
The names were first. The locations are named after names.
Even America was a name first.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci
Those were all human names first. Places named after people, not the other way around.
Is it that uncommon?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Ferrera
Dont know. But its weird as hell
Is it a feminine form of Amerigo maybe?
Related
Apology not necessary.
I used to know an Alyssa whose name was pronounced like Alicia. Her parents went let's give her one name but spell it just like another name.
Weird. I knew an Alicia who pronounced it Alyssa.
Cultural thing too. Sometimes words in their language are translated weirdly.
I used to work with someone who changed a letter for their child’s name, then posted on Facebook moaning cause people spelt it the correct way (Not the way they had spelt it.), in the comments someone posted how they had deliberately spelt their child’s name some different way and were complaining that everyone was spelling it properly. Can’t remember either names or spellings now, this was well over a decade ago.
Anferny.
Penny Hardaway was legit!
A-aron?
Better than bl-ake
Jay Quellin? Dee-nice?
Dammit, now I'm subconsciously pronouncing the dash with all these names.
I named my son Jaxin because my wife wanted Jax and I didn't want my son to have a dog's name.
I regret not just naming him Jackson because nobody in Taiwan knows how to pronounce Jaxin.
Sorry, you are not legally permitted to name your son Jackson unless you carry the name Jack yourself.
Hate to pile on, but could have done Jackson and then called him Jax for short just as easily. Hell Dick is short for Richard, short names don't have to be spelled the same.
Could have named him Jacob and called him Jax.
Or basically any J name, honestly.
Joseph, shortened as jax
Jay.
Jacob was just the most basic I could think of
I know. That is why I said i regret not just naming him Jackson. It's too late now. His passports and legal name in 2 countries are already set. It would be hell to change it now.
JaXin would, I believe, be a normal Chinese name - but pronounced quite differently!
Ya people call him Ja Sin.
I've encountered a lot of the reverse of this. Danielle pronounced "Dah Nell". Brittany pronounced "Brih Tanny". Jonathan pronounced "Joe Nathan".
I would call that fucker Jonah-T-Han purely out of spite.
There was also a "Jathan" and it wath tho hard to thay hith name without thlipping into a lithp.
The guiness book of records had an entry for the worst spelling in the old days before the book was dumbed down. Trying to spell 'usage' the incorrect attempt was youzitch achieving only one correct letter.
Does using French count? Then I nominate "eau". Impressive 300% bloat, 0 correct letters.
I present to you the plural : eaux 400% bloat still 0correct letters
Not a baby name but I worked with a devops engineer who had dyslexia so all of our IaC variable names had misspellings in them. We just lived with it because it would have been expensive to teardown the resources and reprovision them with the correct spellings.
Brayden, Hayden, jayden, tayden, kayden, rayden, shayden, cayden, pretty much the whole alphabet ending in den. And yes I met every single one of these
None of those are bad. It's when it's when it's like Breighleigh or stuff that it's bad.
Welp found taydens mom
I have no interest in having children, and if I did I wouldn't name them Tayden, but if somehow both of those things were true, I certainly wouldn't spell it Teighden.
It is unusual and I don't like it, but I wouldn't say it is bad. If I liked the person I would probably come to like the name.
Breighden.
Most of these are normal names tf 💀
Tragedeigh
Kommie-dagh
The solution is to put all of the uniqueness in the middle name. Then you still get to feel “special” while not forcing your kid to go by “tragedeigh” or whatever.
When I chose my name - I made my first as milquetoast and appropriate to my age as possible. My middle I went balls out - I guarantee I have a cooler middle name than you do.
How dare you. You dont beat me, Faustus
I named myself after two scientists, whose work I share with the world regularly 😉
Dunning-Kruger, as an example case?
Funnily enough, I’ve seen some compelling criticism of good old D & K.
Do you also regularly visit 1885 in a steam-powered flying time machine?
I found Kyle "The Yellow Dart" Smith, everyone!
Middle name is not a thing where I live. People can have 1 or more given names (I know of people that have 9), but none of these are considered 'middle name'.
That's if you can choose a middle name at all. In many places (including where I am) you only get to choose the given name, then the middle name is for example the father's, and the last name is the family name.
kayleigh and stuff like that is pretty common where I'm from.
Have you run into a Teancum?
For those that are not up on your mormonisms, it's pronounced:
Tea-an-cum
An it's a boy's name.
I'm always up for tea n' cum with the boys.
Tea-an-sum
or
Tea-an-kum?
But which one is cuter: Kayleigh or Kaylee?
Kaylee, and it is readable using only English grammar rules (the -eigh uses rules from a different language like Sean does)
Keighleigh.
Morridor is the funniest name I’ve ever heard of for the Wasatch front (shot in the dark)
Tree Grill. Real dude. Wacky parents.
Jesus
Not that bad of a spelling...
I am happy that here in Finland you can't name your child whatever you want.
'Whatever you want' would be a terrible name
Yep, the government would say no to that name.
Keighty / Keeeeeeee
K eighty? Katie? K80? Lord that's a new low.
Is Keeeeeeee related to Potoooooooo the racehorse?
Related. No. But there was that one party in Tijuana...
A girl in highschool whose name was Nazanine went by Nazi (Nah zee). Like, why? Your name was beautiful.
Edit: sorry, replied to the wrong comment
I don't have an issue with that depending on where you are. It's a nice name but lends itself well to a shortening of nahzee. In my area of the US and in the UK they often pronounce Nazi as Naht-zee so I don't think it's as bad as it could be.
Yeah when she said it, it wasn't as bad because this was in Canada and we pronounce it like you guys do, too. It's just that she actually SPELLED it that way. It was so weird.
Brayden, Braxton, Bentley, Aiden, Axel, Keith.
Axel is the normal spelling around here (Switzerland), so I'm interested what you would have expected instead? Aksel?
Maybe it's Excel
What's wrong with Axel?
You might dislike those names, but there nothing really wrong with their spellings.
Ugh, no! Brayden is fine. Breighden is the problem.
Brayden is a problem. Breighden is a tragedeigh.
Treighgeighdeigh
Okay, now you're just showing off.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2018/11/29/little-girl-named-abcde-was-mocked-by-southwest-gate-agent-airline-has-apologized/
A girl named Abcde
tbf, it supposed to ve pronounced Absedee. which isn't ugly phonetically, but being named Abcde???
Now that you spell it out, Absedee (or maybe Abesede?) is actually kind of cute and not too hard to read. The parents could have spelled it phonetically and then later explained it comes from abcde.
"Abesede" is getting too close to "obesity", but I think "Absedee" works. But yeah, people need to stop trying to use letters and symbols to replace the phonemes of that letter's name.
The whole point of written language is to replace phonemes and other concepts to symbols.
Unbeknown to us, those Karen creating Tragedighs are actually evolving human language.
/j
I was at a medical appointment, and the (very cute) nurse was named "Kaelea" pronounced Kaylee.
Sure it was Caileigh?
Jup, Caileeh for sure.
I once worked with a Kaylee, but she pronounced it Kali, like Cali-fornia, or Kali-mah...
Took me a month to get that sorted in my head.
I knew a guy so ghetto he got his first name as his Xbox Live Gamertag.
LaQuisha. I think there was an apostrophe or two thrown in there but I don't recall where or even the spelling exactly at that was ~26 years ago in highschool. I just recall the LaQ... There were several that I do not recall specifically ATM that seemed like their folks were trying to find the most unrelated syllables to link into a name. It was funny to me. It was a school in Tennessee designed for Uni prep that was supposed to uplift people in the surrounding poorer black community. There were several black students that acted like they always had a chip on their shoulder (aggravated, just looking for any excuse to argue or fight). These are the kids that typically had the most odd names. It was funny because I viewed them like the inverse of typical white trailer trash also present in the area but not at that school. The rednecks seemed to name all their kids some indecisive hyphenated name like Mary-Ann or Betty-Sue while the equivalently backwards black families went with stuff like Keishfonda and Quinmothy. Like y'all are doing the same thing thinking you're different.
Hol up I'll be right back..
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Well, it's not like some with a common name like Michael for instance can ever be really famous. Even less if you have a common surname, like Jackson, or Jordan.
Potoooooooo
Quite the stud as I recall
Hung like a horse
Verbalee. I met this in IRL.
I once had a student named Dominca. It was supposedly pronounced Duh-mawn-i-ca. She would get very irritated that people “didn’t know how to read” when they pronounced it doh-minca
"Heulyn" pronounced Hay-lynn.
That's spelt 100% correctly in Welsh.
Anybody else use their real name as their lemmy user name ?
You should remember my name, stay away from me or suffer the fates of those who have come before you
I do :)
No but I use my Lemmy name IRL because my actual name is boring AF.
A kid whose name is said "Akelah" phonetically, but is spelled "Akleah".
The parents probably pronounce "nuclear" as "nucular".
I had a customer once at an old job whose name was spelled Deborah. Seems completely normal until she got super mad at me for calling her "Debra" because I was somehow supposed to know her name was pronounced "Deb-Or-Ah". With the "Or" being stressed.
Tell debdeb to calm down
Clearly named after the girl in Disco 2000.
She was like 50 so I doubt it lol
Never knew anyone with a weird spelling but I knew a dude who had the unfortunate name of Harry Butt. Already bad enough your family name is "Butt" but his parents did him hella dirty naming him Harry.
Was always funny getting a sub thinking he was just fucking with them tho.
Butt is actually a common Kashmiri last name. If he was from India/ Pakistan that night make sense
Ashley spelled Ashleigh
I knew of an African-American named Le-a.
Not spoken as “ley-ah”, but as “ledasha”.
Because you are supposed to say the dash.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/
I appreciate you posting the snopes. I am more bothered than I probably should be when someone claims this is real and if OP is willing to lie about something so mundane then none of their posts should be believed.
Honestly there is something to the idea of pretending a joke is personal experience, as it's always funnier. Like, instead of saying "so this guy was talking to his neighbor..." I'll say "so I was talking to my neighbor yesterday and.."
The real issue (well besides the possible racist connotations) is this joke is SO overused, this is the fourth time I've seen it while scrolling this thread. At least give a different variation like "-andra" (dashandra) or "beu-ious" (bodacious lmao I'm actually kinda proud of that one).
I too have been to the internet.
La-A, it's pronounced La-Dash-A
My mom taught nursing and La-A was one of her students, she said her mother had her at 15 after dropping out of highschool her freshman year and wanted a unique name for her.
Edit Ok wow, I did not know that there was a racist aspect about this name. Sorry I didn't go into more detail originally. She was real, and from what little interaction I had with her she was a very nice and down to earth woman, who put herself through nursing school. I met her at the pinning ceremony because I always ran the audio for it to help my mom out. I didn't get to spend any meaningful time talking to her, but I heard her name called out when it was her turn on stage to get her pin and saw her come up and receive her nursing pin.
Again I had no idea about the racist aspect of this name, if I had I would have either given more detail upfront or just not posted. I've met a handful of people with interesting sounding and spelled names and didn't think anything about it when originally posting. I apologize if anyone felt I was being offensive.
Crazy to me that this is still going around. I remember hearing this myth back when I was in middle school almost 20 years ago.
Its almost certainly untrue and probably racist. Though there are women named Ladasha fully spelled out.
Oh this is way older than 20 years old. My grandpa was telling this joke like 50 years ago. He also was a school teacher, I suspect it has been circulating through schools for the last 60+ years.
What's with the
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Did she say, "and the dash don't be silent"?
Please see my edit on the original post.
Wait I also knew a La-a. Now I'm worried that there are multiple...