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.
Edit Ok wow, I did not know that there was a racist aspect about this name. Sorry I didn’t go into more detail originally. She was real, and from what little interaction I had with her she was a very nice and down to earth woman, who put herself through nursing school. I met her at the pinning ceremony because I always ran the audio for it to help my mom out. I didn’t get to spend any meaningful time talking to her, but I heard her name called out when it was her turn on stage to get her pin and saw her come up and receive her nursing pin.
Again I had no idea about the racist aspect of this name, if I had I would have either given more detail upfront or just not posted. I’ve met a handful of people with interesting sounding and spelled names and didn’t think anything about it when originally posting. I apologize if anyone felt I was being offensive.
Wait I also knew a La-a. Now I’m worried that there are multiple…
Did she say, “and the dash don’t be silent”?
Please see my edit on the original post.
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.
Thank you for letting me know about that, please see my edit to the original post.
What’s with the
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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.
For once I’m on the cop’s side.
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.
Eighew! Ouarew?
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!
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
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
But which America is it? North or south?
They compromised and it’s central.
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?”
Most places are named after people too
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.
Is it that uncommon?
Is it a feminine form of Amerigo maybe?
Dont know. But its weird as hell
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.
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.
The names were first. The locations are named after names.
Even America was a name first.
Those were all human names first. Places named after people, not the other way around.
Anybody else use their real name as their lemmy user name ?
I do :)
You should remember my name, stay away from me or suffer the fates of those who have come before you
No but I use my Lemmy name IRL because my actual name is boring AF.
T’Fanny for Tiffany. She’s about 30 now, so that was a bad decision from a long time ago.
T’Fanny sounds like the name of a Vulcan stripper lol.
Fkn lol!
Worst lap dance in the quadrant … yeah right it was scientifically measured and performed
“Live long, t’werk that t’fanny, and prosper 🖖”
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”
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 their punches.
Daedric lord of soul crushing corporate vocabulary.
This has to be a muskspawn.
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.
Jewelee (Julie) because they wanted Jewel in there I guess
Why did I read this in Chris-Chans voice??? Why am I this brainrotted?
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.
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.
Jewel is a perfectly fine name on its own, wtf
Even Jewelie would have been better despite being atrocious on its own
I knew a guy so ghetto he got his first name as his Xbox Live Gamertag.
Abcde (pronounced AB-sid-ee) was certainly memorable if nothing else.
This is actually a tuff name
Reminds me of that kids book CDB
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.
Oh dear lord no
I’ve seen this name also in the wild. Girl was pretty fat too. Poor kid.
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.
A-aron?
Better than bl-ake
Jay Quellin? Dee-nice?
Dammit, now I’m subconsciously pronouncing the dash with all these names.
A girl named Abcde
tbf, it supposed to ve pronounced Absedee. which isn’t ugly phonetically, but being named Abcde???
Now that you spell it out, Absedee (or maybe Abesede?) is actually kind of cute and not too hard to read. The parents could have spelled it phonetically and then later explained it comes from abcde.
“Abesede” is getting too close to “obesity”, but I think “Absedee” works. But yeah, people need to stop trying to use letters and symbols to replace the phonemes of that letter’s name.
But yeah, people need to stop trying to use letters and symbols to replace the phonemes of that letter’s name.
The whole point of written language is to replace phonemes and other concepts to symbols.
Unbeknown to us, those Karen creating Tragedighs are actually evolving human language.
/j
