Tragedeigh
Kommie-dagh
“Heulyn” pronounced Hay-lynn.
That’s spelt 100% correctly in Welsh.
I knew a guy once whose last name was “EA.” Two capital letters. He pronounced it “Yeah.” His first name was Rodrake.
I guess it wasnt in the name afterall
(Is it “ea sports its in the game or name”?)
Wasn’t it, EA sports, it’s in the lame?
EA Sports. It’s the same game you bought last year with slightly updated graphics and rosters, but a whole new set of DLC to buy.
E. A. Sports. It’s just the same.
E A Sports, its in the blame!
A kid whose name is said “Akelah” phonetically, but is spelled “Akleah”.
The parents probably pronounce “nuclear” as “nucular”.
T’Fanny for Tiffany. She’s about 30 now, so that was a bad decision from a long time ago.
Hope she never goes to Britain…
How did Americans get fanny backwards but they wear fanny packs correctly?
Nah they’re called “bum bags”
Only younger generations wear fanny packs “correctly”. They were originally a hip bag that stayed behind you, not something you wore in front of you. Because fanny was slang for ass in America.
So younger generations wear them “wrong” in the sense that they were originally meant to be worn behind you. But “correctly” in the British sense.
T’Fanny sounds like the name of a Vulcan stripper lol.
“Live long, t’werk that t’fanny, and prosper 🖖”
Fkn lol!
Worst lap dance in the quadrant … yeah right it was scientifically measured and performed
Abcde (pronounced AB-sid-ee) was certainly memorable if nothing else.
Reminds me of that kids book CDB
I’ve seen this name also in the wild. Girl was pretty fat too. Poor kid.
I fully came in here with this name in mind. Lol in the 10 years since I’ve first heard it, I’ve never come across anyone else who has heard the same. I somehow hope we’re all running into the same Abcde and there aren’t just hordes of them out there.
This is actually a tuff name
Oh dear lord no
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.
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.
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.
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.
I love Key & Peele
I love Key & Peele 🙂
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 too have been to the internet.
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).
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.
I found Kyle “The Yellow Dart” Smith, everyone!
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.
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?
Do you also regularly visit 1885 in a steam-powered flying time machine?
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”
Literally the “why did mum name me Rose” meme.
That name is a trajideh.
Dollarina Cappocino
Hopefully she didn’t become a prostitute
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.
This has to be a muskspawn.
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 their punches.
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.
Tell debdeb to calm down
Clearly named after the girl in Disco 2000.
She was like 50 so I doubt it lol
Nothing could be worse than X Æ A-12.
Can you just use all of unicode in the US for baby names?
That is like a grandma reading a hash out loud
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.
…what kinda hash?
Brownie
like a sha-512 for example, if you are not familiar with the concept. go ahead and google it :)
Hashashin, get stabbed loser.
Why did I read that in Napoleon Dynamite’s voice?
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
In the USA, rich people are quite obviously above the law, so no, I don’t think he will.
What makes you so confident?
Yeah that dude is obsessed with x. He slaps it everywhere he can
That’s what happens when you prevent your kid from exploring X sites till your adulthood
For once I’m on the cop’s side.
Ashley spelled Ashleigh
