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

• KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I understand naming a kid after a city or region/state but a country seems a little far.

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  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    India is a name I’ve seen often.

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• boletus@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But which America is it? North or south?

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  • Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They compromised and it’s central.

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most places are named after people too

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Latierra

    If I had to bully her I’d call her Latrine

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    • zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “You changed your name to Latrine?”

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• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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