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What's the worst spelling you've seen?

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Submitted ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Aurolei@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Toneigh 🐴🐴🐴. As in Toni or Tony.

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  • jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Does using French count? Then I nominate “eau”. Impressive 300% bloat, 0 correct letters.

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  • officermike@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nothing could be worse than X Æ A-12.

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    • Sonor@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That is like a grandma reading a hash out loud

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      • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        …what kinda hash?

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    • Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What makes you so confident?

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  • adhocfungus@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Eighew! Ouarew?

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Anferny.

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    • Jackcooper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Penny Hardaway was legit!

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  • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Shithead”

    Pronounced: shi-THEED

    Spelled: Shit Head

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    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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

      Piped

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    • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Justdaveisfine@midwest.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    La-a (Pronounced La-dash-ah)

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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

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    • otter@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • don@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Found an interesting snopes article about that.

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Daedric lord of soul crushing corporate vocabulary.

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      • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That name is a trajideh.

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hopefully she didn’t become a prostitute

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dollarina Cappocino

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  • ReiRose@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hope she never goes to Britain…

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • aMockTie@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh dear lord no

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    • errer@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • generic_computers@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/

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      • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I too have been to the internet.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For once I’m on the cop’s side.

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  • Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Palpitate9461@lemmynsfw.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Weird. I knew an Alicia who pronounced it Alyssa.

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      • And009@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Cultural thing too. Sometimes words in their language are translated weirdly.

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  • Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Is it that uncommon?

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Ferrera

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      • Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Dont know. But its weird as hell

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Many people are named after places. This one doesn’t feel weird to me atleast

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      • boletus@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        But which America is it? North or south?

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Most places are named after people too

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      • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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      • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yup, I’ve known a Kenya, a Lesotho, and a Latierra (the Earth in Spanish).

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    • Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I know a Paris, a Virginia, and a Georgia, just off the top of my head. Location names are weird, but not unheard of.

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      • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        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?

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      • plyth@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The names were first. The locations are named after names.

        Even America was a name first.

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci

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      • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Those were all human names first. Places named after people, not the other way around.

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    • punksnotdead@slrpnk.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Related

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  • Gowron_Howard@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      You might dislike those names, but there nothing really wrong with their spellings.

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    • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Image
      What’s wrong with Axel?

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    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Axel is the normal spelling around here (Switzerland), so I’m interested what you would have expected instead? Aksel?

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      • And009@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Maybe it’s Excel

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  • _lilith@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • BlueCollarRockstar@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A-aron?

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Keighty

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  • j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Marthirial@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tree Grill. Real dude. Wacky parents.

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  • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Potoooooooo

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