I named my son Jaxin because my wife wanted Jax and I didn’t want my son to have a dog’s name.
I regret not just naming him Jackson because nobody in Taiwan knows how to pronounce Jaxin.
Hate to pile on, but could have done Jackson and then called him Jax for short just as easily. Hell Dick is short for Richard, short names don’t have to be spelled the same.
Can we just start using cosmic horror entity names already? Reighfyl is definitely something I could see being some sort of Lovecraftian alien
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.
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.
Did she say, “and the dash don’t be silent”?
Wait I also knew a La-a. Now I’m worried that there are multiple…
Brayden, Hayden, jayden, tayden, kayden, rayden, shayden, cayden, pretty much the whole alphabet ending in den. And yes I met every single one of these
None of those are bad. It’s when it’s when it’s like Breighleigh or stuff that it’s bad.
Breighden.
Welp found taydens mom
Toneigh 🐴🐴🐴. As in Toni or Tony.
Full name, Toneigh Lynne Groan.
Ptoughneigh
The guiness book of records had an entry for the worst spelling in the old days before the book was dumbed down. Trying to spell ‘usage’ the incorrect attempt was youzitch achieving only one correct letter.
Does using French count? Then I nominate “eau”. Impressive 300% bloat, 0 correct letters.
Anferny.
Penny Hardaway was legit!
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.
Eighew! Ouarew?
Brayden, Braxton, Bentley, Aiden, Axel, Keith.
Ugh, no! Brayden is fine. Breighden is the problem.
You might dislike those names, but there nothing really wrong with their spellings.
What’s wrong with Axel?Axel is the normal spelling around here (Switzerland), so I’m interested what you would have expected instead? Aksel?
Maybe it’s Excel
“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.
Keighty / Keeeeeeee
Is Keeeeeeee related to Potoooooooo the racehorse?
K eighty? Katie? K80? Lord that’s a new low.
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.
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.
Weird. I knew an Alicia who pronounced it Alyssa.
Cultural thing too. Sometimes words in their language are translated weirdly.
Tree Grill. Real dude. Wacky parents.
Jesus
Not that bad of a spelling…
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).
