When your mom enunciates the Bruce, you know you’re in big trouble.
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zaphod@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
It’s the name of the twin you absorbed in the womb.
shadshack@feddit.online 5 hours ago
New guy at work’s legal name is Emilejustin, and goes by Justin. Effectively the Emile is silent.
breadleyloafsyou@lemmy.zip 43 minutes ago
toynbee@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I used to work with a guy whose first name was Lordprince. His parents must have had high hopes for him.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 hour ago
A friend’s brother was named ‘Suprman’. Yes, it was spelled without the e
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
I’ve had classmates named after large numbers, like trillion and billion.
toynbee@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That’s Nathan for you.
four@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Middle names are kinda like that
PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
I know only one sentence in gaelic: Tiocfaidh ár lá
… the “faidh” is silent.KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
I don’t know if this is exactly how it works in Irish Gaelic, but in Scottish Gaelic the reason there are so many silent letters is because of vowel combinations, broad and slender consonants and lenition
The Scottish Gaelic equivalent of that phrase would be “Thig ar latha” i think, which funnily enough I don’t think contains any silent letters
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
Since when did the alien comic guy stray into microblogging?
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Since forever I think but tbh I only follow his comics so I don’t know what else is he writing about
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
I’m gonna guess since 2018 at least
felixrostrum@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Same with the town of Derry, the first six letters are silent
BilSabab@lemmy.world 27 minutes ago
Now that’s a reasonable idea that won’t go out of hand!