Ashley spelled Ashleigh
What's the worst spelling you've seen?
Submitted 10 months ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
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zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Stormdancer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Verbalee. I met this in IRL.
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Anybody else use their real name as their lemmy user name ?
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No but I use my Lemmy name IRL because my actual name is boring AF.
BlueRingedOctopus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
You should remember my name, stay away from me or suffer the fates of those who have come before you
tonywu@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I do :)
Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I am happy that here in Finland you can’t name your child whatever you want.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
‘Whatever you want’ would be a terrible name
Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yep, the government would say no to that name.
SnarkoPolo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I was at a medical appointment, and the (very cute) nurse was named “Kaelea” pronounced Kaylee.
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
supernicepojo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sure it was Caileigh?
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Jup, Caileeh for sure.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 10 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?
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That really qogA.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Wow. Yeah, definitely good to be gracious in that situation!
Another is, some cultures, not too far from home - like Irish and Welsh - have names written in ways that look Traighdiegh to English, but are the correct/traditional way to spell it for that culture.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That’s super frustrating. The hospital should have easily been able to get someone who had at least a basic grasp of a common language to help ensure they understood the forms and got them filled out correctly.
The fault is 100% with the hospital.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I would argue that at least 15% of the blame lies with the racist expectation in the US that all names need be anglicized, when we have fucking Unicode. If someone whose second language is English can be expected to be able to pronounce “Rayleigh Monaghan McTavish”, then the least that the anglophone people of the US could do is learn to pronounce things in a few other common languages. There is, quite simply, no excuse for the government of the united States, in which there is no official language (even though a traitor, invalidated by the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment, had some fuckwit draft a document trying to declare it without congressional approval).
nthavoc@lemmy.today 10 months ago
X Æ A-Xii . I could not resist. I apologize.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Apology not necessary.
tinkermeister@lemm.ee 10 months 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
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 10 months 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???
wabasso@lemmy.ca 10 months 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.
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 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.
Jeeve65@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
Middle name is not a thing where I live. People can have 1 or more given names (I know of people that have 9), but none of these are considered ‘middle name’.
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I found Kyle “The Yellow Dart” Smith, everyone!
kamen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s if you can choose a middle name at all. In many places (including where I am) you only get to choose the given name, then the middle name is for example the father’s, and the last name is the family name.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
How darw you. You dont beat me, Faustus
andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I named myself after two scientists, whose work I share with the world regularly 😉
svtdragon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Heulyn” pronounced Hay-lynn.
Domino@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Spelt 100% correctly in Welsh.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 months ago
I knew a guy so ghetto he got his first name as his Xbox Live Gamertag.
gerowen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A kid whose name is said “Akelah” phonetically, but is spelled “Akleah”.
kablammy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The parents probably pronounce “nuclear” as “nucular”.
jaschen@lemm.ee 10 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.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
JaXin would, I believe, be a normal Chinese name - but pronounced quite differently!
jaschen@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Ya people call him Ja Sin.
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Sorry, you are not legally permitted to name your son Jackson unless you carry the name Jack yourself.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Hate to pile on, but could have done Jackson and then called him Jax for short just as easily. Hell Dick is short for Richard, short names don’t have to be spelled the same.
jaschen@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I know. That is why I said i regret not just naming him Jackson. It’s too late now. His passports and legal name in 2 countries are already set. It would be hell to change it now.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Could have named him Jacob and called him Jax.
Etterra@discuss.online 10 months ago
Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Congrats to my brother Jerry and his stepdaughter!
💀
Emerald@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Omg I didn’t even notice that at first
Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Wonder what his wife thinks of this pregnancy
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 10 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 10 months ago
Think they’ll name their next daughter Cheaughtgeughn?
MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Clearly named after the girl in Disco 2000.
MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
She was like 50 so I doubt it lol
Amanduh@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Tell debdeb to calm down
oppy1984@lemm.ee 10 months 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.
MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
oppy1984@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Thank you for letting me know about that, please see my edit to the original post.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 10 months 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?Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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.
ronflex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Did she say, “and the dash don’t be silent”?
oppy1984@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Please see my edit on the original post.
g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wait I also knew a La-a. Now I’m worried that there are multiple…
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 10 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
Aurolei@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Toneigh 🐴🐴🐴. As in Toni or Tony.
jafffacakelemmy@mander.xyz 10 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.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Anferny.
adhocfungus@midwest.social 10 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.
Gowron_Howard@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Brayden, Braxton, Bentley, Aiden, Axel, Keith.
laranis@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
“Shithead”
Pronounced: shi-THEED
Spelled: Shit Head
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Keighty
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I used to know an Alyssa whose name was pronounced like Alicia
Marthirial@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Tree Grill. Real dude. Wacky parents.
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Butt is actually a common Kashmiri last name. If he was from India/ Pakistan that night make sense