Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen?

Justdaveisfine@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• otter@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve seen that as La-ah. Somehow that is so much worse.

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  • don@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Found an interesting snopes article about that.

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    • Justdaveisfine@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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• Gloomy@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Seems to be an urban legend tough. Also racist.

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  • Justdaveisfine@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The first time I read that it was le-a , which could be read as les without the dash

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• CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The dash don’t be silent

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