La-a (Pronounced La-dash-ah)
What's the worst spelling you've seen?
Submitted 3 months ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
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Justdaveisfine@midwest.social 3 months ago
otter@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I’ve seen that as La-ah. Somehow that is so much worse.
don@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Gloomy@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Seems to be an urban legend tough. Also racist.
Justdaveisfine@midwest.social 3 months 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.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 3 months 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.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 months ago
The first time I read that it was le-a , which could be read as les without the dash
CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
The dash don’t be silent
ReiRose@lemmy.world 3 months ago
T’Fanny for Tiffany. She’s about 30 now, so that was a bad decision from a long time ago.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hope she never goes to Britain…
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
How did Americans get fanny backwards but they wear fanny packs correctly?
aMockTie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Abcde (pronounced AB-sid-ee) was certainly memorable if nothing else.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Oh dear lord no
errer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve seen this name also in the wild. Girl was pretty fat too. Poor kid.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Reminds me of that kids book CDB
potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 3 months ago
This is actually a tuff name
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I once met a girl called “Xinhergi” (Synergy).
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Looks like its the name of a Daedric prince or something.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Daedric lord of soul crushing corporate vocabulary.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
jimmux@programming.dev 3 months ago
This has to be a muskspawn.
Krudler@lemmy.world 3 months 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”
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
That name is a trajideh.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Hopefully she didn’t become a prostitute
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Dollarina Cappocino
adhocfungus@midwest.social 3 months 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.
pipes@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Eighew! Ouarew?
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Wow. So maybe it wasn’t an “I’m so new and unique” Traighdiegh. I wonder what the history of Eighmee Street is.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
For once I’m on the cop’s side.
laranis@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
“Shithead”
Pronounced: shi-THEED
Spelled: Shit Head
tomi000@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How can it be legal to literally name your kid an insult? Child protection gotta intervene.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Parents of Richards are very upset by this.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It’s an Indian name, so the spelling is a bit weird.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“It’s pronounced “Weener-Slave.””
Etterra@discuss.online 3 months ago
Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Congrats to my brother Jerry and his stepdaughter!
💀
Emerald@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Omg I didn’t even notice that at first
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Can we just start using cosmic horror entity names already? Reighfyl is definitely something I could see being some sort of Lovecraftian alien
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Think they’ll name their next daughter Cheaughtgeughn?
Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Wonder what his wife thinks of this pregnancy
_lilith@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Jewelee (Julie) because they wanted Jewel in there I guess
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months 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.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Ah the original working name for the villain of 101 Damnations. Jew Ellie DeVille.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Even Jewelie would have been better despite being atrocious on its own
cobysev@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I knew a guy once whose last name was “EA.” Two capital letters. He pronounced it “Yeah.” His first name was Rodrake.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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?
Aurolei@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Toneigh 🐴🐴🐴. As in Toni or Tony.
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 3 months 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
nthavoc@lemmy.today 3 months ago
X Æ A-Xii . I could not resist. I apologize.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 months 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.
jaschen@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
A-aron?
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Anferny.
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I used to know an Alyssa whose name was pronounced like Alicia
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 3 months 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
BlueCollarRockstar@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’ve encountered a lot of the reverse of this. Danielle pronounced “Dah Nell”. Brittany pronounced “Brih Tanny”. Jonathan pronounced “Joe Nathan”.
jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz 3 months 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.
steeznson@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
Gowron_Howard@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Brayden, Braxton, Bentley, Aiden, Axel, Keith.
bruhduh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Tragedeigh
Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I am happy that here in Finland you can’t name your child whatever you want.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Keighty
officermike@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nothing could be worse than X Æ A-12.
Sonor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That is like a grandma reading a hash out loud
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months 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.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
…what kinda hash?
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yeah that dude is obsessed with x. He slaps it everywhere he can
REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 months ago
That’s what happens when you prevent your kid from exploring X sites till your adulthood
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 months 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
jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 3 months ago
In the USA, rich people are quite obviously above the law, so no, I don’t think he will.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
What makes you so confident?
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Can you just use all of unicode in the US for baby names?