I was at a medical appointment, and the (very cute) nurse was named “Kaelea” pronounced Kaylee.
What's the worst spelling you've seen?
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SnarkoPolo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
supernicepojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure it was Caileigh?
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Jup, Caileeh for sure.
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 2 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.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 2 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 2 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 2 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.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I knew a guy so ghetto he got his first name as his Xbox Live Gamertag.
j4k3@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 2 months 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.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Tja@programming.dev 2 months 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.
Stormdancer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Verbalee. I met this in IRL.
MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 2 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.
Amanduh@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Tell debdeb to calm down
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Clearly named after the girl in Disco 2000.
MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
She was like 50 so I doubt it lol
oppy1984@lemm.ee 2 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 2 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.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 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.
oppy1984@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Thank you for letting me know about that, please see my edit to the original post.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 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?
ronflex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Did she say, “and the dash don’t be silent”?
oppy1984@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Please see my edit on the original post.
g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wait I also knew a La-a. Now I’m worried that there are multiple…
brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Potoooooooo
kalpol@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Quite the stud as I recall
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Hung like a horse
tinkermeister@lemm.ee 2 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
svtdragon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Heulyn” pronounced Hay-lynn.
Domino@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Spelt 100% correctly in Welsh.
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anybody else use their real name as their lemmy user name ?
BlueRingedOctopus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You should remember my name, stay away from me or suffer the fates of those who have come before you
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No but I use my Lemmy name IRL because my actual name is boring AF.
tonywu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I do :)
gerowen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A kid whose name is said “Akelah” phonetically, but is spelled “Akleah”.
kablammy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The parents probably pronounce “nuclear” as “nucular”.
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 2 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 2 months ago
Butt is actually a common Kashmiri last name. If he was from India/ Pakistan that night make sense
zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Ashley spelled Ashleigh
Marthirial@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tree Grill. Real dude. Wacky parents.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Jesus
Tja@programming.dev 2 months ago
Not that bad of a spelling…