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What's the worst spelling you've seen?

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Submitted ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Anferny.

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    • Jackcooper@lemmy.world ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Penny Hardaway was legit!

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  • officermike@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nothing could be worse than X Æ A-12.

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    • Sonor@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That is like a grandma reading a hash out loud

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      • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        …what kinda hash?

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    • Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah that dude is obsessed with x. He slaps it everywhere he can

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What makes you so confident?

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  • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Shithead”

    Pronounced: shi-THEED

    Spelled: Shit Head

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  • adhocfungus@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Justdaveisfine@midwest.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    La-a (Pronounced La-dash-ah)

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    • otter@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve seen that as La-ah. Somehow that is so much worse.

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      • don@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Found an interesting snopes article about that.

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  • rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • generic_computers@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/

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      • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I appreciate you posting the snopes. I am more bothered than I probably should be when someone claims this is real and if OP is willing to lie about something so mundane then none of their posts should be believed.

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    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I too have been to the internet.

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  • Gowron_Howard@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Brayden, Braxton, Bentley, Aiden, Axel, Keith.

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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”

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That name is a trajideh.

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hopefully she didn’t become a prostitute

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dollarina Cappocino

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  • ReiRose@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    T’Fanny for Tiffany. She’s about 30 now, so that was a bad decision from a long time ago.

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hope she never goes to Britain…

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        How did Americans get fanny backwards but they wear fanny packs correctly?

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I once met a girl called “Xinhergi” (Synergy).

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    • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Looks like its the name of a Daedric prince or something.

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      • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Daedric lord of soul crushing corporate vocabulary.

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      • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        You are thinking about Xivilai from Oblivion, not lords, but daedric dudes who don’t hold tneir punches.

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  • aMockTie@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Abcde (pronounced AB-sid-ee) was certainly memorable if nothing else.

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh dear lord no

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    • errer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve seen this name also in the wild. Girl was pretty fat too. Poor kid.

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    • AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For once I’m on the cop’s side.

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  • Tungsten5@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Many people are named after places. This one doesn’t feel weird to me atleast

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      • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There was a player on Big Brother named America, which was a tiny bit confusing because the show routinely refers to the audience as America

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I know a Paris, a Virginia, and a Georgia, just off the top of my head. Location names are weird, but not unheard of.

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      • plyth@feddit.org ⁨53⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

        The names were first. The locations are named after names.

        Even America was a name first.

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci

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      • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Those were all human names first. Places named after people, not the other way around.

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    • punksnotdead@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Related

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  • Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I used to know an Alyssa whose name was pronounced like Alicia

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    • Palpitate9461@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Weird. I knew an Alicia who pronounced it Alyssa.

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  • cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I knew a guy once whose last name was “EA.” Two capital letters. He pronounced it “Yeah.” His first name was Rodrake.

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I guess it wasnt in the name afterall

      (Is it “ea sports its in the game or name”?)

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      • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        E A Sports, its in the blame!

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      • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wasn’t it, EA sports, it’s in the lame?

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  • _lilith@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jewelee (Julie) because they wanted Jewel in there I guess

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ah the original working name for the villain of 101 Damnations. Jew Ellie DeVille.

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    • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Even Jewelie would have been better despite being atrocious on its own

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why did I read this in Chris-Chans voice??? Why am I this brainrotted?

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  • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Keighty

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  • BlueCollarRockstar@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve encountered a lot of the reverse of this. Danielle pronounced “Dah Nell”. Brittany pronounced “Brih Tanny”. Jonathan pronounced “Joe Nathan”.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Jonathan pronounced “Joe Nathan”

      I would call that fucker Jonah-T-Han purely out of spite.

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      • BlueCollarRockstar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        There was also a “Jathan” and it wath tho hard to thay hith name without thlipping into a lithp.

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  • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A-aron?

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Better than bl-ake

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      • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Jay Quellin? Dee-nice?

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  • j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • Marthirial@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tree Grill. Real dude. Wacky parents.

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Jesus

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  • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Potoooooooo

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    • kalpol@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Quite the stud as I recall

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      • lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Hung like a horse

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