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

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  • Marthirial@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tree Grill. Real dude. Wacky parents.

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Jesus

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      • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not that bad of a spelling…

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  • SnarkoPolo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was at a medical appointment, and the (very cute) nurse was named “Kaelea” pronounced Kaylee.

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    • supernicepojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure it was Caileigh?

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      • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Jup, Caileeh for sure.

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    • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    washingtonpost.com/…/little-girl-named-abcde-was-…

    A girl named Abcde

    tbf, it supposed to ve pronounced Absedee. which isn’t ugly phonetically, but being named Abcde???

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    • wabasso@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • atx_aquarian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “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.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I knew a guy so ghetto he got his first name as his Xbox Live Gamertag.

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  • j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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    • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think the weird-ass names are an attempt not for the parents to be different, but a generally severely misguided desire for their kids to appear different in a “Wowee, that’s special” kinda way. Everyone else has a ‘normal’ name. But not my kid; my child is so different and special and s/he’s going places, s/he’s gonna get out of here & do important things or be a famous athlete.

      As we know, oftentimes that’s simply not the case…and it’s just a nightmare for the rest of us (and that child) to spell, say, etc. I find it incredibly frustrating, even though I know this wasn’t their choice, but their parents’. If their last name is weird shit, I politely ask for the first name. If the first name is also weird shit, I politely make a best guess phonetic whatever & move on.

      Fun fact, it’s not exactly ghetto made-up name territory, but Oprah Winfrey…isn’t Oprah. Her given name is Orpah, named after a biblical figure in the book of Ruth. Very obscure, ancient name! Nobody knew how to spell or pronounce it properly, and they started calling her Oprah instead. 🙂 Now…we’ve got Oprah.

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        or be a famous athlete.

        Hol up I’ll be right back…

        one

        two

        and 3

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      • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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  • Stormdancer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Verbalee. I met this in IRL.

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  • MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Amanduh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tell debdeb to calm down

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    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Clearly named after the girl in Disco 2000.

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      • MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        She was like 50 so I doubt it lol

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  • oppy1984@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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      • oppy1984@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thank you for letting me know about that, please see my edit to the original post.

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      • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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?

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    • ronflex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Did she say, “and the dash don’t be silent”?

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      • oppy1984@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Please see my edit on the original post.

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    • g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wait I also knew a La-a. Now I’m worried that there are multiple…

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  • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Potoooooooo

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    • kalpol@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Quite the stud as I recall

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      • lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hung like a horse

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  • tinkermeister@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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

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  • svtdragon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Heulyn” pronounced Hay-lynn.

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    • Domino@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Spelt 100% correctly in Welsh.

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  • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Anybody else use their real name as their lemmy user name ?

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    • BlueRingedOctopus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You should remember my name, stay away from me or suffer the fates of those who have come before you

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    • PillowTalk420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No but I use my Lemmy name IRL because my actual name is boring AF.

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    • tonywu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do :)

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  • gerowen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A kid whose name is said “Akelah” phonetically, but is spelled “Akleah”.

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    • kablammy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The parents probably pronounce “nuclear” as “nucular”.

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  • PillowTalk420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I knew a dude who had the unfortunate name of Harry Butt. Already had enough your family name is “Butt” but his parents did him hella dirty naming him Harry.

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Butt is actually a common Kashmiri last name. If he was from India/ Pakistan that night make sense

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  • zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ashley spelled Ashleigh

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