A girl named Abcde
tbf, it supposed to ve pronounced Absedee. which isn’t ugly phonetically, but being named Abcde???
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.
“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.
I am happy that here in Finland you can’t name your child whatever you want.
‘Whatever you want’ would be a terrible name
The downside is, neither can any adult. I think the first name limitations should only apply to kids; legal adults should be able to change their names to whatever they want, no matter how stupid it is. It could only hurt themselves after all
I used to know an Alyssa whose name was pronounced like Alicia. Her parents went let’s give her one name but spell it just like another name.
Weird. I knew an Alicia who pronounced it Alyssa.
Cultural thing too. Sometimes words in their language are translated weirdly.
I used to work with someone who changed a letter for their child’s name, then posted on Facebook moaning cause people spelt it the correct way (Not the way they had spelt it.), in the comments someone posted how they had deliberately spelt their child’s name some different way and were complaining that everyone was spelling it properly. Can’t remember either names or spellings now, this was well over a decade ago.
“Shithead”
Pronounced: shi-THEED
Spelled: Shit Head
How can it be legal to literally name your kid an insult? Child protection gotta intervene.
It’s an Indian name, so the spelling is a bit weird.
Parents of Richards are very upset by this.
“It’s pronounced “Weener-Slave.””
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.
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.
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.
Wait I also knew a La-a. Now I’m worried that there are multiple…
Did she say, “and the dash don’t be silent”?
I was at a medical appointment, and the (very cute) nurse was named “Kaelea” pronounced Kaylee.
I once met a girl called “Xinhergi” (Synergy).
I once met a girl called Xinhergi
Who thrived on late-night energy.
She’d moan and she’d grind,
With a very keen mind
For positions defying liturgy.
Looks like its the name of a Daedric lord or something.
Daedric lord of soul crushing corporate vocabulary.
You are thinking about Xivilai from Oblivion, not lords, but daedric dudes who don’t hold tneir punches.
This has to be a muskspawn.
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
Is it that uncommon?
Dont know. But its weird as hell
Many people are named after places. This one doesn’t feel weird to me atleast
I understand naming a kid after a city or region/state but a country seems a little far.
Yup, I’ve known a Kenya, a Lesotho, and a Latierra (the Earth in Spanish).
Latierra
If I had to bully her I’d call her Latrine
But which America is it? North or south?
They compromised and it’s central.
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.
Most places are named after people too
I know a Paris, a Virginia, and a Georgia, just off the top of my head. Location names are weird, but not unheard of.
Those were all human names first. Places named after people, not the other way around.
I was briefly married to a Georgia, but the family wasn’t Southern. The fathers name was George and that is also what he named his first son, so his first daughter was Georgia.
Never have understood the phenomenon of fathers passing down their name, you’ve already cursed your child with the family name, why make things harder on the poor whelp?
Vanity isn’t it? Pathetic male vanity. Never hear women doing it do you.
I know plenty of women that carry an old school second name because there grandmother’s names are passed down. Like Elisabeth, or Rose or the like.
You must be able to see that giving your daughter your mother’s name as a middle name is not at all the same as giving your son your own name?
The names were first. The locations are named after names.
Even America was a name first.
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
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.
How dare you. You dont beat me, Faustus
I named myself after two scientists, whose work I share with the world regularly 😉
Dunning-Kruger, as an example case?
Verbalee. I met this in IRL.
Potoooooooo
Quite the stud as I recall
Hung like a horse
Keighty / Keeeeeeee
Is Keeeeeeee related to Potoooooooo the racehorse?
Related. No. But there was that one party in Tijuana…
K eighty? Katie? K80? Lord that’s a new low.
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.
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.
Honestly there is something to the idea of pretending a joke is personal experience, as it’s always funnier. Like, instead of saying “so this guy was talking to his neighbor…” I’ll say “so I was talking to my neighbor yesterday and…”
The real issue (well besides the possible racist connotations) is this joke is SO overused, this is the fourth time I’ve seen it while scrolling this thread. At least give a different variation like “-andra” (dashandra) or “beu-ious” (bodacious lmao I’m actually kinda proud of that one).
I too have been to the internet.
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 (though we clearly have the context in this case), 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 so many of the replies here and with shit like “abcde”. However, when this girl 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?
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.
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), to mandate the use of a single language.
Never knew anyone with a weird spelling but I knew a dude who had the unfortunate name of Harry Butt. Already bad enough your family name is “Butt” but his parents did him hella dirty naming him Harry.
Was always funny getting a sub thinking he was just fucking with them tho.
Butt is actually a common Kashmiri last name. If he was from India/ Pakistan that night make sense
