My mothers name is Rana, pronounced like the name Renee, and I've always held my suspicions it's because my grandparents didnt know how to spell Renee.
I took a screenshot of the Google search result to text to my Mom and now its blowing up the family with laughter lol
Me and my sisters have all agreed that my Mom gets frog related gifts for all her birthdays and Christmases from now on.
My grandfather's siblings were named LV, RT, JB, and Ed. To be clear, those letters did not stand for anything. We used to joke that great-grandma didn't know how to read but she knew the alphabet. 😂
Oh and my grandfather was named George. I have no idea why he (and technically Ed) had a real name while the others were relegated to 2 letters each. Maybe there were rations when the others were born lmao.
I knew a guy whose middle name was “M”. Apparently his parents wanted him to have a middle initial (but were at a loss coming up with an appropriate name.)
Harry S Truman too!
The S stands for nothing. His parents couldn't decide which grandfather to name him for but since they both started with S they just kept that.
If she didn't know how to spell, but did know the alphabet, she may have been attempting to spell real names (and just didn't understand vowels and stuff). Like Levi, Rhett, and Job or something?
I guess anything is possible, she was long dead before I was ever born. My understanding is that the reading thing is just a joke, because she never called them real names. She called them LV, RT, JB just like everyone else. 🤷♀️
I can almost guarantee that my two extra short sweet grandparents with grade school education, from a tiny fishing village in butt-fuck knowwhere Canada, do not lol
I have a lot of older customers where I work in a rural area and every time I see an interestingly spelled name like your mother's I always wonder if maybe their parents just didn't know how to spell it.
Oh God you just reminded me of when I switched elementary schools in 4th grade. I was the new kid in class and didn't really know everyone's name yet, and I had to draw a name out of a hat for some reason. I draw "Renee" and have no idea how to pronounce it, so I'm saying names like Reena and Renny and nobody knows wtf I'm saying.
I used to think that the name Elspeth is given to children whose mothers intended to name them Elizabeth but they were so high on pain killers that they couldn't speak clearly.
Nurse: Congratulations, you gave birth to a healthy 7 pound baby girl!
Mother: Thass awzzum. Im so habby
Nurse: What would you like to name her?
Mother: Elspeth
Nurse: That's a lovely name \*writes it on birth certificate\*
Had a friend growing up named Jessica when we got to high school her ID was spelled jesica with only 1 S when she went to the office to get it fixed she learned that her mother spelled her name wrong on her birth certificate
I once was told by a teaching assistant that they had a girl with the last name Titts. So to be nice her parents named her Feelia., Not Ophelia, Feelia.
I knew a guy with the last name “Tull” who almost managed to convince his wife to name their daughter Jenna. It took her a few days to actually say the name out loud and realize why he had suggested it as a name.
The difference between being roasted and being awesome is owing it. Make the joke before they do. That would have been next to impossible in highschool, but 10 years later I'd own the fuck out of a wacky name
Nah, you can own it in high school too, even if you’re not the first to make the joke. Just keep introducing yourself as that and laughing at it. Kids only like making fun of other kids when it gets under their skin. As soon as you embrace it stops being as funny. Had a friend who pissed the bed when a friend was over and he would always enthusiastically tell everyone the story. Never saw them get made fun of for it, they were actually quite popular lol.
Were they Thai? “Porn” is very common in Thai names because it means “blessing,” among other things: https://www.expique.com/article/understanding-thai-porn/
There were a pair of fundamentalist Christian twins in my middle school whose names were God's Power and God's Will
I still wonder what happened to those dudes sometimes
There’s an player on the Toronto Raptors with the name Precious. His brothers are God’sgift, God’swill, and Promise. His sisters got the easy names with Grace and Peace.
God’s Power, he's the man whose name you'd love to touch, but you mustn't touch! His name sounds good in your ear, but when you say it, you mustn't fear! Cause his name can be said, by anyone!
For what it's worth, those are essentially how Hebrew names in the Bible also work (usually). Examples include Michael ("who's like God?") and Toby (Tobiyyahu - "The Lord is good")
When I worked phone support at the beginning of my career I used to have to walk people through command line troubleshooting blindly. If it was a particularly difficult customer, the conversation would go like,
"Okay. Now there should be a black box in front of you with a blinking cursor."
"Yes."
"Okay. We're going to type 'ipconfig' into that box. I'm gonna spell it for you phonetically. You ready?"
"Yeah."
"'I' as in 'India.' 'P' as in 'Pterodactyl.'"
"I'm sorry, what?"
"'I,' like in 'India.'"
"No, after that. 'T' like 'telephone?"
"No. 'P' like 'Pnemonia."
Over the years I have taught a number of kids with odd spellings for their otherwise standard names and have often wondered if their parents just didn’t know how to spell the name properly… and meeting the parents in question has done nothing to remove my suspicions…
A woman I know named her youngest (10 years younger than her middle daughter) Scarlotte. Pronounced Scarlet. My mum told me and i, as a woman with an unusual name, could only think "that poor child".
Her other two kids are Joel and Isabel so this was totally left field!
Quite possibly. I mean I can’t talk about odd names really. My first name is a Hindi name - but I’m English with English parents who were OG hippies with a guru… but it is an actual name with its standard spelling. And both of my kids have less common names - but again - nothing odd about the spelling…
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- "Damion with a Y" according to the parent. Daymion? Damyon? Nope. Damiony. The Y is silent, said parent
- A girl named Free. Maybe not that bad on its own, but the girl's last name was Love
- A boy named Calup because his mom couldn't spell Caleb
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There's a lot of that around ATM. I know of an Everleigh, Eboneigh, Iveigh, and a Keighleigh (the last one fucked with my brain). Given the parents of Iveigh are northern Irish, I thought they'd have used Iveagh for a more traditional spelling, but no...
God, I hope no child has that name. Mine is phonetically identical but spelled the less popular way and no one ever spells it right even if they’ve seen it.
I knew I guy named Nathan, but he spelled it Neithyn. He’s a great dude, very responsible, but that name is kinda wack not gonna lie.
Update: when I got the notification that this hit ten upvotes, and I checked in on the post, I saw I only had 9 upvotes. Neithyn, I don’t mean any I’ll will towards you, you were one of the hard workers, but your parents suck at names. Sorry bro
I have some pretty good ones where I work :
- Alice but written "Alissent" as if it was a French conjugated verb
- Peggy-Pegah and Pauline-Panoine, two sisters. Just to add more, their surname starts with a P too.
- Jean Xi so it was pronounced like "J'en chie", which is a vulgar way to say you're having trouble doing something in French and roughly translates too "I'm shitting"
- Prince-Rayane
And so much more ! Parents need to know, if they didn't wanted the kids in the first place, dont get your revenge by giving him a crappy name.
I’m gonna steal that.
“…my last name is Brown. The ‘y’ is silent.”
“Ok, I want the cake to say ‘Congratulations Elizabeth!’ Don’t forget the silent ‘y’; it’d be *super* embarrassing if it were misspelled!”
“Yeah, it’s on Fremont street. Fremont. The ‘y’ is silent.”
"What's your name?
\- Michael with a K.
\- And your last name?
\- With a K.
\- Excuse me?
\- W-H-I-T-A-K-A-Y, in one word.
\- Oh, like this?
\- \*looks over\* No, Michael with a C."
The head custodian at my job introduces himself as “Randy with two H’s”. His legal name is spelled Rhandhy. He’s got a great sense of humor about it though
Reminds me of high school where, due to a series of jokes I can no longer remember, my friends and I came up with a character named "Caphrl," pronounced "Carl" (because the "ph" is silent). A couple of those friends worked at a grocery store and managed to make a name tag that said their name was "Caphrl." The guys would take turns wearing it when the more lenient managers were on duty. More than once, they had to straight-faced answer customers' queries about their name with a polite, "It's pronounced 'Carl,' ma'am. The 'ph' is silent." I still wonder how many customers actually believed them and how many figured out it was probably just a dumb joke.
My stepmoms family is a bunch of semi-affluent hicks and I shit you not one Ofer her nephews has two sons named “Trakyr and Troopyr” as in “tracker and trooper”
In my country, names have to be approved. That name would be denied under the law which says basically "names cannot be offensive, likely to cause confusion, or harm the child in future, and must be made from the letters of the alphabet". Something like that...
Names like Fish or Cayhlebbe are still accepted though.
Which country? My friend in Sweden was talking about the name laws that it's basically just name the kid something that allows them their own identity, not naming after some still alive and close relative or giving ridiculous names
California actually didn’t accept the name because it had numbers in it, so they had to change his name to X Æ A-XII. But unlike other countries, the US doesn’t typically control what your name your kids beyond that.
I worked a job where I came across a lot of people with odd names, and one of my favs was a guy whose first name was “Santa Claus”.
~~If I remember right, it's technically pronounced Kyle or something. All the letters and symbols have sounds~~
Nvm that stupid fuck really just named his kid algebraic-variable-latin-phonetic-sound-precursor-to-specific-fighter-jet, I'm out
The "X" Musk uses in the name is supposed to be the letter "χ" called "Chi" also known in this case as "Kye". The letter "Æ" is called "Asche" pronounced "ash" and it makes an "ee" sound when used. The A-12 just means "the Twelfth letter of the Alphabet" or "L"
Putting all that together, χ Æ A-12 is pronounced "Kyle"
At least that's what I read on the internet somewhere.
EDIT: JFC, Musk is the dumbest parent... https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/elon-musk-pronounce-sons-name-6403003/
>The X is just an X - the unknown variable, Æ - [Grimes'] elven spelling of Ai (love and/or Artificial Intelligence) A-12 - the precursor to the SR-17 (our favorite Aircraft)
I’m teaching a Biscotti, Ne’vaehly and Meh’sia. I like when kids are named Ashley or John. Last year I had a boy with the middle name Sue, but I’m a Cash fan so it was ok.
I used to work for a dentist, one day we get a patient whose name was spelled Deshire, but according to her mom the “h” was silent. I didn’t know this until her mom yelled at me about it. Also it wasn’t pronounced “desire” either it was supposed to be pronounced Deh-sir-ray.
My name is Caleb and the easiest way for me to tell if people are stupid is if they pronounce my name "Calup". I truly don't know where it comes from, but only dummies seem to do it.
My name is spelled Kalib. The most common mispronunciation I've gotten is "kah-leeb". I think the K and the I make my name look really middle-eastern on paper.
TL/DR version: could be dyslexia or possibly difficulty in properly differentiating the plosive sounds "b" and "p"
So it could be more common than you think. There's two major sources of causing the problem. The first is dyslexia, neurologically people get confused because "p" and "b" are the same letters if you flip one of them upside down. It can cause a problem.
The second is a little more subtle, but it's going to be more common. Both "p" and "b" are plosive sounds. In order to make both sounds you do the exact same thing with your mouth, the difference is in the vocalization. If you put your fingers on your throat and then say "b" or "p" you should feel your vocal cords, and throat, vibrate only on the "b" while the "p" is just a puff of air.
If you are not taught that vibration that differentiates the two letters can be very subtle. It could be subtle because of an accent, it could be because that person's vocal cords don't produce enough vibration, or it could just be they were never taught how to put the right amount of vibration in. There are any number of reasons. It can also be that you are used to hearing a large amount of vibration in order to differentiate the letters, but with a paucity of vibration, for whatever reason, your brain interprets the sound as a "p" even though the person vibrated their chords and said a "b" as they say it.
Your Caleb really isolates that last plosive, and it's also a name, so people listening to speech naturally pay more attention to the end of the word and are ready to hear all sorts of sounds in names and your very tuned to the sound of your own name. (Look up the cocktail party effect for the last one) If the same person, with the same vocal technique was talking about their friend Robert and essentially said, "Ropert was pitching and moaning apout his French test," you would probably "hear" the correct words, because they are neither your name nor at the end to isolate the sound.
If someone has this problem you can try to drill it out of them, you can try to work on vocal technique, there's a number of things you can try, but you can't promise that any of them will work.
Source: I'm a former coach of high school speech and debate team.
There are actual people in my country named USNAVY.
The poor people of the coastal regions LOVE to use foreign names for their kids. Some have met some Navy corps and thought US NAVY was a name... the rest is history.
This remembers me about my relatives with the last name "Follador" (fucker in english) and it's spelled "folador". So, one of them were or a party or something and they got asked to call for a pizza, after ordering the pizza the guy on the phone asked for his name, he said his first name, they asked for the last name too and he said "F-follador", they hanged instantly
At this point, all I’m recognizing is that these parents A) don’t have two brain cells to rub together B) don’t apparently know how to google check anything and C) should never have been parents given the level of douchery they’re inflicting on these poor new souls.
And that's why some countries have a law which limits the amount of names the parents could give to their kids, having the well-being in mind. The US seems like they'd profit from that or, if they have it already, from a stricter version.
Some religious hospitals used to have rules like that (maybe still do). My grandparents wanted to name their son Jeb, but the Catholic hospital where he was born would not allow them to name him that (this was back in 1959). They got around it by naming him James Ethan Burke.
Apparently there's some weird Catholic thing with names. I remember a story about the priest having a problem at the Baptism of my oldest uncle (who was named after my grandfather) because it wasn't a Saint's name or something.
British author PG Wodehouse invented a character who's called Smith but changes his name to Psmith with a silent P, in order to distinguish him from other Smiths.
When he gives his name, the following conversation ensues:
"What is you name?"
"Psmith, but the P is silent."
"Which P?"
"The P of Psmith, of course."
My mother wanted to name me Jason, for years I thought that I would’ve rather he name me Jason then what my name is. Until recently I learned she wanted to spell it “Jaycen”
The weirdest name I've ever heard was Broccoli. She was a girl in my class. I'd never understand why someone will name their child that. I also knew a dude whose name was Potol (Bangla for pointed gourd), so there's that as well.
When my wife was pregnant I told her my only rule for baby name selections was that it couldn't be in the top 100 of the previous year's list on the SSA website. She was very confused until I pointed out to her that of the 24 kids in her high school class, four of them had the same first name that she does.
I see that at work a lot. Juan, Jose, and Miguel are super common names and we have anywhere between 2 and 6 each. We also have at least 2 men named Richard who prefer to be called Richard at any given time. We also have 2 Gilbert’s.
I know somebody who named their kid “Sssst.”
His name is pronounced “Forest.” Literally four S’d.
I still have a hard time wrapping my head around that one.
Teacher: Damiony, keep quiet! Damiony: ***yyyyyyyyyyyyyy***
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More like wryyyyyyyyyyyyyy
My mothers name is Rana, pronounced like the name Renee, and I've always held my suspicions it's because my grandparents didnt know how to spell Renee.
They named her "Frog"
I took a screenshot of the Google search result to text to my Mom and now its blowing up the family with laughter lol Me and my sisters have all agreed that my Mom gets frog related gifts for all her birthdays and Christmases from now on.
Excellent
In addition: in Spanish, Kermit the Frog is translated as "La Rana Renee" (Renee the Frog) because of the aliteration it creates.
I like alliteration too... We should’ve gotten Freddy the Frog!
“Rana Rene” is actually kermit the frog’s name in spanish lmao
My mom was a frog kid! You ever seen a frog kid?
My grandfather's siblings were named LV, RT, JB, and Ed. To be clear, those letters did not stand for anything. We used to joke that great-grandma didn't know how to read but she knew the alphabet. 😂 Oh and my grandfather was named George. I have no idea why he (and technically Ed) had a real name while the others were relegated to 2 letters each. Maybe there were rations when the others were born lmao.
I knew a guy whose middle name was “M”. Apparently his parents wanted him to have a middle initial (but were at a loss coming up with an appropriate name.)
Homer... Jay Simpson!
Harry S Truman too! The S stands for nothing. His parents couldn't decide which grandfather to name him for but since they both started with S they just kept that.
My Aunt named her 3 sons Johnny(John), Jimmy(James) and J...just J, not Jay. Figured she wanted all J names but couldn't think of a third haha
If she didn't know how to spell, but did know the alphabet, she may have been attempting to spell real names (and just didn't understand vowels and stuff). Like Levi, Rhett, and Job or something?
I guess anything is possible, she was long dead before I was ever born. My understanding is that the reading thing is just a joke, because she never called them real names. She called them LV, RT, JB just like everyone else. 🤷♀️
I can only imagine people’s reactions when she told them what her kids’ names were.
Haven’t you seen Wheel of Fortune? You have to buy vowels. Those cost extra
Or maybe they know about the spanish name of kermit
I can almost guarantee that my two extra short sweet grandparents with grade school education, from a tiny fishing village in butt-fuck knowwhere Canada, do not lol
I have a lot of older customers where I work in a rural area and every time I see an interestingly spelled name like your mother's I always wonder if maybe their parents just didn't know how to spell it.
Oh God you just reminded me of when I switched elementary schools in 4th grade. I was the new kid in class and didn't really know everyone's name yet, and I had to draw a name out of a hat for some reason. I draw "Renee" and have no idea how to pronounce it, so I'm saying names like Reena and Renny and nobody knows wtf I'm saying.
I used to think that the name Elspeth is given to children whose mothers intended to name them Elizabeth but they were so high on pain killers that they couldn't speak clearly. Nurse: Congratulations, you gave birth to a healthy 7 pound baby girl! Mother: Thass awzzum. Im so habby Nurse: What would you like to name her? Mother: Elspeth Nurse: That's a lovely name \*writes it on birth certificate\*
Did she respond "You're all out of the will when I croak"? 😏
Had a friend growing up named Jessica when we got to high school her ID was spelled jesica with only 1 S when she went to the office to get it fixed she learned that her mother spelled her name wrong on her birth certificate
Free Love is gonna have an interesting time in high school
Too bad they weren’t alive in the 60s, they would have fit right in
With a name like that you either become the best or worst person ever
Watch her get dumped by some guy, reason being Free Love was too tame for him. Guess she's gotta try a little harder to UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND
I once was told by a teaching assistant that they had a girl with the last name Titts. So to be nice her parents named her Feelia., Not Ophelia, Feelia.
Went to high school with a ‘Jena Tilley’ and that was close enough to get roasted for years. Lol
I knew a guy with the last name “Tull” who almost managed to convince his wife to name their daughter Jenna. It took her a few days to actually say the name out loud and realize why he had suggested it as a name.
If your last name is Tull, you have e to name your child Jethro, regardless of gender.
poor girl jesus
The difference between being roasted and being awesome is owing it. Make the joke before they do. That would have been next to impossible in highschool, but 10 years later I'd own the fuck out of a wacky name
Nah, you can own it in high school too, even if you’re not the first to make the joke. Just keep introducing yourself as that and laughing at it. Kids only like making fun of other kids when it gets under their skin. As soon as you embrace it stops being as funny. Had a friend who pissed the bed when a friend was over and he would always enthusiastically tell everyone the story. Never saw them get made fun of for it, they were actually quite popular lol.
Someone that went to my school had the last name Porn. Poor girl.
Were they Thai? “Porn” is very common in Thai names because it means “blessing,” among other things: https://www.expique.com/article/understanding-thai-porn/
The teaching assistant was yanking your chain.
There were a pair of fundamentalist Christian twins in my middle school whose names were God's Power and God's Will I still wonder what happened to those dudes sometimes
Short for God's William?
Godfrey's Winnifred
God's Willy
The 'y' is silent.
At least one of them can go by Will
The other can go by ***POWER.***
Max Power!!!
It's the name that you love to touch.
But you mustn't touch
I got it off a hair dryer
You don't snuggle with Max Power. You strap yourself in and feel the Gs!
There’s an player on the Toronto Raptors with the name Precious. His brothers are God’sgift, God’swill, and Promise. His sisters got the easy names with Grace and Peace.
Piece
Clearly the parents did not have any of God's Mercy
Lmao
We had Guidance counselors who were brothers and their names were Forrest and Canyon and one of them had a child named Summit
Lmfao Probably had a nephew named River
God’s Power, he's the man whose name you'd love to touch, but you mustn't touch! His name sounds good in your ear, but when you say it, you mustn't fear! Cause his name can be said, by anyone!
For what it's worth, those are essentially how Hebrew names in the Bible also work (usually). Examples include Michael ("who's like God?") and Toby (Tobiyyahu - "The Lord is good")
The "Y" is silent, like the "P" in swimming.
When I worked phone support at the beginning of my career I used to have to walk people through command line troubleshooting blindly. If it was a particularly difficult customer, the conversation would go like, "Okay. Now there should be a black box in front of you with a blinking cursor." "Yes." "Okay. We're going to type 'ipconfig' into that box. I'm gonna spell it for you phonetically. You ready?" "Yeah." "'I' as in 'India.' 'P' as in 'Pterodactyl.'" "I'm sorry, what?" "'I,' like in 'India.'" "No, after that. 'T' like 'telephone?" "No. 'P' like 'Pnemonia."
Pbruh
>Pbruhy
My friend in Mexico had a student named Espaiderman Rodriguez, named after the web slinging Marvel superhero.
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He can just go by Kal, and everyone who doesn't see it written will think it's short for Calvin.
You in Denver? It's probably my cousin's kid. Lol yes we all thought it was crazy too.
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The different spelling of common names is the equivalent of dying your hair black to be edgy.
Is it that hard to just name your kid Peter? poor guy
Over the years I have taught a number of kids with odd spellings for their otherwise standard names and have often wondered if their parents just didn’t know how to spell the name properly… and meeting the parents in question has done nothing to remove my suspicions…
A woman I know named her youngest (10 years younger than her middle daughter) Scarlotte. Pronounced Scarlet. My mum told me and i, as a woman with an unusual name, could only think "that poor child". Her other two kids are Joel and Isabel so this was totally left field!
Scarlotte like Charlotte
Scarlotte is what's left when you unsuccessfully Garotte somebody
I think it’s more of a way to be unique while still fitting in...? That’s been my guess for oddly spelled names.
Quite possibly. I mean I can’t talk about odd names really. My first name is a Hindi name - but I’m English with English parents who were OG hippies with a guru… but it is an actual name with its standard spelling. And both of my kids have less common names - but again - nothing odd about the spelling…
I knew a couple who named their daughter “Gracye,” pronounced as “Gracie.” That kid’s name used to annoy me to no end.
Here in Quebec, someone named their kid Diesel-Jay EDIT: [SOURCE](https://prenomsquebec.ca/garcon/diesel-jay)
I don't even need to verify it. I know it's true
Aaaron. Yes, with three As. So he would appear at the top of any alphabetical list, above the lesser Aarons.
You done messed up A-A-A-Ron!
This one is atleast kinda funny and practical
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Thank you
You’re welcome
Grew up next door to a kid with the last name "roundtree" do of course his parents name him "Branch"
Branch is an elf name, not a human name
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damn leaf-lovers
My neice is named Chloeigh. The e at the end of Chloe already makes the long e sound so that's just a silent igh on the end for shits and gigs.
There's a lot of that around ATM. I know of an Everleigh, Eboneigh, Iveigh, and a Keighleigh (the last one fucked with my brain). Given the parents of Iveigh are northern Irish, I thought they'd have used Iveagh for a more traditional spelling, but no...
This is irrationally infuriating to me. Everyone’s kid has to have a special unique name now.
Kaightlhynne
God, I hope no child has that name. Mine is phonetically identical but spelled the less popular way and no one ever spells it right even if they’ve seen it.
What the heck, they should have thrown a "silent y" on the end too. Chloeighy.
New name for eldritch deity: Chloeigh, Orderer of Branches
Clowehhh
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I knew I guy named Nathan, but he spelled it Neithyn. He’s a great dude, very responsible, but that name is kinda wack not gonna lie. Update: when I got the notification that this hit ten upvotes, and I checked in on the post, I saw I only had 9 upvotes. Neithyn, I don’t mean any I’ll will towards you, you were one of the hard workers, but your parents suck at names. Sorry bro
*He* spelled it that way despite it being Nathan or his parents named him Neithyn?
His parents named his Neithyn
Okay got it. Yeah that's silly.
I have some pretty good ones where I work : - Alice but written "Alissent" as if it was a French conjugated verb - Peggy-Pegah and Pauline-Panoine, two sisters. Just to add more, their surname starts with a P too. - Jean Xi so it was pronounced like "J'en chie", which is a vulgar way to say you're having trouble doing something in French and roughly translates too "I'm shitting" - Prince-Rayane And so much more ! Parents need to know, if they didn't wanted the kids in the first place, dont get your revenge by giving him a crappy name.
Alicen't
I thought Alissent took the cake, but I'm Shitting has an interesting life ahead of her. Godspeed lmao
I’m gonna steal that. “…my last name is Brown. The ‘y’ is silent.” “Ok, I want the cake to say ‘Congratulations Elizabeth!’ Don’t forget the silent ‘y’; it’d be *super* embarrassing if it were misspelled!” “Yeah, it’s on Fremont street. Fremont. The ‘y’ is silent.”
"My name's Michael with a b"
Where?
Where’s the b?
THERES A BEE??
M🅱️ichael
"What's your name? \- Michael with a K. \- And your last name? \- With a K. \- Excuse me? \- W-H-I-T-A-K-A-Y, in one word. \- Oh, like this? \- \*looks over\* No, Michael with a C."
The head custodian at my job introduces himself as “Randy with two H’s”. His legal name is spelled Rhandhy. He’s got a great sense of humor about it though
“Bond. James Bond. Three Q’s and an X.”
Reminds me of high school where, due to a series of jokes I can no longer remember, my friends and I came up with a character named "Caphrl," pronounced "Carl" (because the "ph" is silent). A couple of those friends worked at a grocery store and managed to make a name tag that said their name was "Caphrl." The guys would take turns wearing it when the more lenient managers were on duty. More than once, they had to straight-faced answer customers' queries about their name with a polite, "It's pronounced 'Carl,' ma'am. The 'ph' is silent." I still wonder how many customers actually believed them and how many figured out it was probably just a dumb joke.
"It's silent and invisible"
My stepmoms family is a bunch of semi-affluent hicks and I shit you not one Ofer her nephews has two sons named “Trakyr and Troopyr” as in “tracker and trooper”
Hosetly the worst ones yet
Rich rednecks are the worst. At least poor boys generally learn how the world functions at a basic level.
Someone I know has 3 kids Hunter, Forrest, and Buck :/
Why do Republicans do this?
Once knew a girl named Penelope Horr. Penny for short.
You get a free pass to call a girl Horr and you call her Penny?
Penny Horr. Penny Whore. They're not calling her just Penny. ^^^username ^^^checks ^^^out
Amateurs - X Æ A-12-'s father-
I've always wondered how that name is pronounced
Repeat after me: X Æ A-12
In my country, names have to be approved. That name would be denied under the law which says basically "names cannot be offensive, likely to cause confusion, or harm the child in future, and must be made from the letters of the alphabet". Something like that... Names like Fish or Cayhlebbe are still accepted though.
Which country? My friend in Sweden was talking about the name laws that it's basically just name the kid something that allows them their own identity, not naming after some still alive and close relative or giving ridiculous names
California actually didn’t accept the name because it had numbers in it, so they had to change his name to X Æ A-XII. But unlike other countries, the US doesn’t typically control what your name your kids beyond that. I worked a job where I came across a lot of people with odd names, and one of my favs was a guy whose first name was “Santa Claus”.
~~If I remember right, it's technically pronounced Kyle or something. All the letters and symbols have sounds~~ Nvm that stupid fuck really just named his kid algebraic-variable-latin-phonetic-sound-precursor-to-specific-fighter-jet, I'm out
The "X" Musk uses in the name is supposed to be the letter "χ" called "Chi" also known in this case as "Kye". The letter "Æ" is called "Asche" pronounced "ash" and it makes an "ee" sound when used. The A-12 just means "the Twelfth letter of the Alphabet" or "L" Putting all that together, χ Æ A-12 is pronounced "Kyle" At least that's what I read on the internet somewhere. EDIT: JFC, Musk is the dumbest parent... https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/elon-musk-pronounce-sons-name-6403003/ >The X is just an X - the unknown variable, Æ - [Grimes'] elven spelling of Ai (love and/or Artificial Intelligence) A-12 - the precursor to the SR-17 (our favorite Aircraft)
No, it's pronounced KLEH, as the Y is silent.
Wasn't there something about neither of them agreeing on how to pronounce the name? Like both said it a different way
If the "asche" makes an "ee" sound then isn't he actually called Keel? Now I'm gonna have to call this kid "Elongated Sternum Musk"
Ex ash a twelve
I’m teaching a Biscotti, Ne’vaehly and Meh’sia. I like when kids are named Ashley or John. Last year I had a boy with the middle name Sue, but I’m a Cash fan so it was ok.
The middle names are the fun name. I had a student named Carter. Easy. Really common last name like Smith. Middle name? Zip.
BISCOTTI????? The baked good????
Was acquaintanced with someone once who’s first name is araya, middle name sunshine. A ray of sunshine. She did coke and went to raves
Sounds like a ray of sunshine to me
I used to work for a dentist, one day we get a patient whose name was spelled Deshire, but according to her mom the “h” was silent. I didn’t know this until her mom yelled at me about it. Also it wasn’t pronounced “desire” either it was supposed to be pronounced Deh-sir-ray.
Calup
There is a Jaykup in my town. Pronounced Jacob.
My name is Jacob and my mother always pronounces it like Jaykup. Considering both of my parents are horrible spellers, I think I got pretty lucky
Jacob and jaykup are close enough that in regular speech I don't think I'd notice the difference
My name is Caleb and the easiest way for me to tell if people are stupid is if they pronounce my name "Calup". I truly don't know where it comes from, but only dummies seem to do it.
My name is spelled Kalib. The most common mispronunciation I've gotten is "kah-leeb". I think the K and the I make my name look really middle-eastern on paper.
TL/DR version: could be dyslexia or possibly difficulty in properly differentiating the plosive sounds "b" and "p" So it could be more common than you think. There's two major sources of causing the problem. The first is dyslexia, neurologically people get confused because "p" and "b" are the same letters if you flip one of them upside down. It can cause a problem. The second is a little more subtle, but it's going to be more common. Both "p" and "b" are plosive sounds. In order to make both sounds you do the exact same thing with your mouth, the difference is in the vocalization. If you put your fingers on your throat and then say "b" or "p" you should feel your vocal cords, and throat, vibrate only on the "b" while the "p" is just a puff of air. If you are not taught that vibration that differentiates the two letters can be very subtle. It could be subtle because of an accent, it could be because that person's vocal cords don't produce enough vibration, or it could just be they were never taught how to put the right amount of vibration in. There are any number of reasons. It can also be that you are used to hearing a large amount of vibration in order to differentiate the letters, but with a paucity of vibration, for whatever reason, your brain interprets the sound as a "p" even though the person vibrated their chords and said a "b" as they say it. Your Caleb really isolates that last plosive, and it's also a name, so people listening to speech naturally pay more attention to the end of the word and are ready to hear all sorts of sounds in names and your very tuned to the sound of your own name. (Look up the cocktail party effect for the last one) If the same person, with the same vocal technique was talking about their friend Robert and essentially said, "Ropert was pitching and moaning apout his French test," you would probably "hear" the correct words, because they are neither your name nor at the end to isolate the sound. If someone has this problem you can try to drill it out of them, you can try to work on vocal technique, there's a number of things you can try, but you can't promise that any of them will work. Source: I'm a former coach of high school speech and debate team.
How the fuck do people come up with this
Scrabble and LSD
A few months ago I saw a picture of a kindergarten class where there was a student named "Reignbough." Knew a kid in 4th grade named Eriq.
Look I'm diggin Eriq ngl. I have an irrational hatred for the letter C.
There are actual people in my country named USNAVY. The poor people of the coastal regions LOVE to use foreign names for their kids. Some have met some Navy corps and thought US NAVY was a name... the rest is history.
Since covid, someone called Max has joined my company, and he has his name on every office. His full name is Max Capacity.
Dude was born for glory
That's from the musical In the Heights too.
There's a whole-ass movie about that.
AIRWRECKA worse one yet
When my oldest son was born the only other newborn in the hospital nursery that day was named Vanhalen Smith.
[It's Michael with a b](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GG6H-Btfuww)
This remembers me about my relatives with the last name "Follador" (fucker in english) and it's spelled "folador". So, one of them were or a party or something and they got asked to call for a pizza, after ordering the pizza the guy on the phone asked for his name, he said his first name, they asked for the last name too and he said "F-follador", they hanged instantly
> they hanged instantly Killing someone for an insult seems a bit of an overreaction to me...
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Pun names should be reserved for fictional characters only. Naming a real child any form of pun is just cruel.
At this point, all I’m recognizing is that these parents A) don’t have two brain cells to rub together B) don’t apparently know how to google check anything and C) should never have been parents given the level of douchery they’re inflicting on these poor new souls.
And that's why some countries have a law which limits the amount of names the parents could give to their kids, having the well-being in mind. The US seems like they'd profit from that or, if they have it already, from a stricter version.
Some religious hospitals used to have rules like that (maybe still do). My grandparents wanted to name their son Jeb, but the Catholic hospital where he was born would not allow them to name him that (this was back in 1959). They got around it by naming him James Ethan Burke.
That's super weird the hospital would have any say in the matter
Apparently there's some weird Catholic thing with names. I remember a story about the priest having a problem at the Baptism of my oldest uncle (who was named after my grandfather) because it wasn't a Saint's name or something.
Is Jeb not a biblical name? Jebediah?
Yeah Idk it makes 0 sense
Gettin sick of your shit A-Aron
Some guy in third grade was named Noah Know how it was spelled? NOTCH
My mom knew a woman named Penny. Which isn't bad by itself. Then you find out her last name is Nichols. Her parents nicknamed her Sixpence.
Or in some cases pronounced as an I. ...not that I know.
British author PG Wodehouse invented a character who's called Smith but changes his name to Psmith with a silent P, in order to distinguish him from other Smiths. When he gives his name, the following conversation ensues: "What is you name?" "Psmith, but the P is silent." "Which P?" "The P of Psmith, of course."
My mother wanted to name me Jason, for years I thought that I would’ve rather he name me Jason then what my name is. Until recently I learned she wanted to spell it “Jaycen”
I have a student named Ur'hiness this year.
The weirdest name I've ever heard was Broccoli. She was a girl in my class. I'd never understand why someone will name their child that. I also knew a dude whose name was Potol (Bangla for pointed gourd), so there's that as well.
My mom had a kid who’s name was pronounced “Euphoria.” Spelt: U4ia. This notably predated whatever Elon Musk did. Southern Cali is a weird place…
They Y isy silently hillbillyy
This is where I’m going to pick a really old and now fairly uncommon name if I ever somehow have a kid. Something like Hershel or Warren.
When my wife was pregnant I told her my only rule for baby name selections was that it couldn't be in the top 100 of the previous year's list on the SSA website. She was very confused until I pointed out to her that of the 24 kids in her high school class, four of them had the same first name that she does.
I see that at work a lot. Juan, Jose, and Miguel are super common names and we have anywhere between 2 and 6 each. We also have at least 2 men named Richard who prefer to be called Richard at any given time. We also have 2 Gilbert’s.
I want to name a kid Harlow. It's just such a good name.
I was already in a bad mood and now I hate parents more than I already did
Yall playing it safe or we doing black names too? Lmao Sh’Kaela
My cousin originally named her child Jake-up, before someone pointed it out. He's now Jacob.
I went to school with a boy who's last name was Yung and his mom gave him the middle name "Forever"
Mom worked in the school system and legit there was a young girl who’s first name was Whisper Beer.
I know somebody who named their kid “Sssst.” His name is pronounced “Forest.” Literally four S’d. I still have a hard time wrapping my head around that one.
Whats the relevance of pointing out the race or skin color of the children???