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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • officermike@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nothing could be worse than X Æ A-12.

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    • Sonor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That is like a grandma reading a hash out loud

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      • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        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.

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      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        …what kinda hash?

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    • Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah that dude is obsessed with x. He slaps it everywhere he can

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      • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s what happens when you prevent your kid from exploring X sites till your adulthood

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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

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      • jenesaisquoi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        In the USA, rich people are quite obviously above the law, so no, I don’t think he will.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What makes you so confident?

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can you just use all of unicode in the US for baby names?

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  • Justdaveisfine@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    La-a (Pronounced La-dash-ah)

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    • otter@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • don@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Found an interesting snopes article about that.

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    • Gloomy@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Seems to be an urban legend tough. Also racist.

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      • Justdaveisfine@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The dash don’t be silent

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  • ReiRose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    T’Fanny for Tiffany. She’s about 30 now, so that was a bad decision from a long time ago.

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hope she never goes to Britain…

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        How did Americans get fanny backwards but they wear fanny packs correctly?

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  • aMockTie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Abcde (pronounced AB-sid-ee) was certainly memorable if nothing else.

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh dear lord no

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    • errer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve seen this name also in the wild. Girl was pretty fat too. Poor kid.

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    • AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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    • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Reminds me of that kids book CDB

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    • potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is actually a tuff name

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I once met a girl called “Xinhergi” (Synergy).

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    • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Looks like its the name of a Daedric prince or something.

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      • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Daedric lord of soul crushing corporate vocabulary.

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      • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You are thinking about Xivilai from Oblivion, not lords, but daedric dudes who don’t hold tneir punches.

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    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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    • jimmux@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This has to be a muskspawn.

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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”

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That name is a trajideh.

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hopefully she didn’t become a prostitute

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Dollarina Cappocino

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  • adhocfungus@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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    • pipes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Eighew! Ouarew?

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wow. So maybe it wasn’t an “I’m so new and unique” Traighdiegh. I wonder what the history of Eighmee Street is.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For once I’m on the cop’s side.

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  • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Shithead”

    Pronounced: shi-THEED

    Spelled: Shit Head

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    • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How can it be legal to literally name your kid an insult? Child protection gotta intervene.

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Parents of Richards are very upset by this.

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      • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s an Indian name, so the spelling is a bit weird.

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    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “It’s pronounced “Weener-Slave.””

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    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m Shithead and I’m allergic to my tongue

      Piped

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Charlxmagne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Congrats to my brother Jerry and his stepdaughter!

      💀

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      • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Omg I didn’t even notice that at first

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    • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can we just start using cosmic horror entity names already? Reighfyl is definitely something I could see being some sort of Lovecraftian alien

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Think they’ll name their next daughter Cheaughtgeughn?

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    • Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wonder what his wife thinks of this pregnancy

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  • _lilith@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Jewelee (Julie) because they wanted Jewel in there I guess

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It sounds like theres two people named Ellie. One of whom is Jewish.

      And they decided to distinguish her by calling her Jew Ellie.

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      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ah the original working name for the villain of 101 Damnations. Jew Ellie DeVille.

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    • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Even Jewelie would have been better despite being atrocious on its own

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  • cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I knew a guy once whose last name was “EA.” Two capital letters. He pronounced it “Yeah.” His first name was Rodrake.

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  • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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, 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 the OP and with shit like “abcde”. However, when this 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?

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  • Aurolei@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Toneigh 🐴🐴🐴. As in Toni or Tony.

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  • Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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

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  • nthavoc@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    X Æ A-Xii . I could not resist. I apologize.

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  • rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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  • jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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  • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A-aron?

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Anferny.

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  • Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I used to know an Alyssa whose name was pronounced like Alicia

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  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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

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  • BlueCollarRockstar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve encountered a lot of the reverse of this. Danielle pronounced “Dah Nell”. Brittany pronounced “Brih Tanny”. Jonathan pronounced “Joe Nathan”.

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  • jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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  • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Gowron_Howard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Brayden, Braxton, Bentley, Aiden, Axel, Keith.

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  • bruhduh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Tragedeigh

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  • Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I am happy that here in Finland you can’t name your child whatever you want.

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Keighty

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