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.
I knew a guy so ghetto he got his first name as his Xbox Live Gamertag.
“Heulyn” pronounced Hay-lynn.
That’s spelt 100% correctly in Welsh.
A kid whose name is said “Akelah” phonetically, but is spelled “Akleah”.
The parents probably pronounce “nuclear” as “nucular”.
I once met a girl called “Xinhergi” (Synergy).
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 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.
kayleigh and stuff like that is pretty common where I’m from.
Morridor is the funniest name I’ve ever heard of for the Wasatch front (shot in the dark)
But which one is cuter: Kayleigh or Kaylee?
Kaylee, and it is readable using only English grammar rules (the -eigh uses rules from a different language like Sean does)
Keighleigh.
Have you run into a Teancum?
For those that are not up on your mormonisms, it’s pronounced:
Tea-an-cum
An it’s a boy’s name.
I’m always up for tea n’ cum with the boys.
Tea-an-sum
or
Tea-an-kum?
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 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.
Could have named him Jacob and called him Jax.
Or basically any J name, honestly.
Jacob was just the most basic I could think of
Joseph, shortened as jax
Jay.
I know. That is why I said i regret not just naming him Jackson. It’s too late now. His passports and legal name in 2 countries are already set. It would be hell to change it now.
JaXin would, I believe, be a normal Chinese name - but pronounced quite differently!
Ya people call him Ja Sin.
Sorry, you are not legally permitted to name your son Jackson unless you carry the name Jack yourself.
Not a baby name but I worked with a devops engineer who had dyslexia so all of our IaC variable names had misspellings in them. We just lived with it because it would have been expensive to teardown the resources and reprovision them with the correct spellings.
Congrats to my brother Jerry and his stepdaughter!
💀
Omg I didn’t even notice that at first
Wonder what his wife thinks of this pregnancy
Can we just start using cosmic horror entity names already? Reighfyl is definitely something I could see being some sort of Lovecraftian alien
Think they’ll name their next daughter Cheaughtgeughn?
Maybe Caoilfhionn?
Hah, maybe. I am gunning for just going full tilt and naming their next daughter Shub-Niggurath
Ia! The black goat of the woods with a thousand young! Ia!
Forgive me… is that supposed to be shotgun?
Yeah, at maximum Feloneigh spelling.
It hurt to read, well done
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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
Most of these are normal names tf 💀
None of those are bad. It’s when it’s when it’s like Breighleigh or stuff that it’s bad.
Welp found taydens mom
I have no interest in having children, and if I did I wouldn’t name them Tayden, but if somehow both of those things were true, I certainly wouldn’t spell it Teighden.
It is unusual and I don’t like it, but I wouldn’t say it is bad. If I liked the person I would probably come to like the name.
Breighden.
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.
Clearly named after the girl in Disco 2000.
She was like 50 so I doubt it lol
Tell debdeb to calm down
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.
I present to you the plural : eaux 400% bloat still 0correct letters
Toneigh 🐴🐴🐴. As in Toni or Tony.
Full name, Toneigh Lynne Groan.
Ptoughneigh
Brothers with Phteven
Damn why don’t they have a toe emoji.
