Nothing could be worse than X Æ A-12.
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?
Hashashin, get stabbed loser.
Why did I read that in Napoleon Dynamite’s voice?
Brownie
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
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?
Can you just use all of unicode in the US for baby names?
La-a (Pronounced La-dash-ah) is the weirdest one I’ve seen
I’ve seen that as La-ah. Somehow La-a is so much worse.
Found an interesting snopes article about that.
Seems the article is from 2008, and the La-a I know of was in pre-k in ~2015, so it seems someone named their kid based on the legend.
The first time I read that it was le-a , which could be read as lea without the dash
Seems to be an urban legend tough. Also racist.
I’ve seen one in real life. Maybe they just carried a fake id card as a joke, but this was in a billing department so I’m assuming it was real.
Yeah the other reply noted the same thing. This would have been about ~2015 and she was in pre-k so someone must have named their kid based on the legend. I can’t recall if the girl was black or not but I don’t think she was.
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?
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.
Nah they’re called “bum bags”
Abcde (pronounced AB-sid-ee) was certainly memorable if nothing else.
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.
I’ve seen this name also in the wild. Girl was pretty fat too. Poor kid.
Reminds me of that kids book CDB
This is actually a tuff name
For once I’m on the cop’s side.
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”
That name is a trajideh.
Hopefully she didn’t become a prostitute
Literally the “why did mum name me Rose” meme.
Dollarina Cappocino
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?
Wow. Yeah, definitely good to be gracious in that situation!
Another is, some cultures, not too far from home - like Irish and Welsh - have names written in ways that look Traighdiegh to English, but are the correct/traditional way to spell it for that culture.
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.
That really qogA.
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Jewelee (Julie) because they wanted Jewel in there I guess
It sounds like theres two people named Ellie. One of whom is Jewish.
And they decided to distinguish her by calling her Jew Ellie.
Ah the original working name for the villain of 101 Damnations. Jew Ellie DeVille. That was Walt’s contribution.
Even Jewelie would have been better despite being atrocious on its own
Once had a friend who said she had 3 middle names. Then she said what I thought I heard as Julianne. I thought she was joking and laughed at her joke.
Then she got mad, called me stupid, then clarified that her 3 middle names were Jewel Lee Ann.
I still thought she was joking. She was not.
I have a friend with three middle names too but he seemed used to people being confused and just told me where they came from.
Why did I read this in Chris-Chans voice??? Why am I this brainrotted?
Jewel is a perfectly fine name on its own, wtf
I once met a girl called “Xinhergi” (Synergy).
Looks like its the name of a Daedric lord or something.
You are thinking about Xivilai from Oblivion, not lords, but daedric dudes who don’t hold tneir punches.
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.
X Æ A-Xii . I could not resist. I apologize.
Apology not necessary.
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”?)
E A Sports, its in the blame!
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.
“Shithead”
Pronounced: shi-THEED
Spelled: Shit Head
How can it be legal to literally name your kid an insult? Child protection gotta intervene.
Parents of Richards are very upset by this.
It’s an Indian name, so the spelling is a bit weird.
“It’s pronounced “Weener-Slave.””
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.
Wow. So maybe it wasn’t an “I’m so new and unique” Traighdiegh. I wonder what the history of Eighmee Street is.
A-aron?
Better than bl-ake
Jay Quellin? Dee-nice?
Dammit, now I’m subconsciously pronouncing the dash with all these names.
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
Many people are named after places. This one doesn’t feel weird to me atleast
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.
I understand naming a kid after a city or region/state but a country seems a little far.
India is a name I’ve seen often.
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
“You changed your name to Latrine?”
But which America is it? North or south?
They compromised and it’s central.
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
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.
The names were first. The locations are named after names.
Even America was a name first.
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?
Fair enoth I guess, it’s not the same.
Is it that uncommon?
Is it a feminine form of Amerigo maybe?
