Did she say, “and the dash don’t be silent”?
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oppy1984@lemm.ee 4 days 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.
ronflex@lemmy.world 4 days ago
oppy1984@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Please see my edit on the original post.
g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Wait I also knew a La-a. Now I’m worried that there are multiple…
MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 4 days 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.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 days 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.
oppy1984@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Thank you for letting me know about that, please see my edit to the original post.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 days 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?