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
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.
Most of these are normal names tf 💀
Toneigh 🐴🐴🐴. As in Toni or Tony.
Ptoughneigh
Brothers with Phteven
Full name, Toneigh Lynne Groan.
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 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.
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?
Wow. So maybe it wasn’t an “I’m so new and unique” Traighdiegh. I wonder what the history of Eighmee Street is.
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.
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”?
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.
Verbalee. I met this in IRL.
Anybody else use their real name as their lemmy user name ?
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.
I do :)
I am happy that here in Finland you can’t name your child whatever you want.
The downside is, neither can any adult. I think the first name limitations should only apply to kids; legal adults should be able to change their names to whatever they want, no matter how stupid it is. It could only hurt themselves after all
‘Whatever you want’ would be a terrible name
Yep, the government would say no to that name.
I was at a medical appointment, and the (very cute) nurse was named “Kaelea” pronounced Kaylee.
Sure it was Caileigh?
Jup, Caileeh for sure.
I once worked with a Kaylee, but she pronounced it Kali, like Cali-fornia, or Kali-mah…
Took me a month to get that sorted in my head.
Tragedeigh
Kommie-dagh
Never knew anyone with a weird spelling but I knew a dude who had the unfortunate name of Harry Butt. Already bad enough your family name is “Butt” but his parents did him hella dirty naming him Harry.
Was always funny getting a sub thinking he was just fucking with them tho.
Butt is actually a common Kashmiri last name. If he was from India/ Pakistan that night make sense
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)
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.
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.
“Breighdone” (Brayden) is probably the most egregious one I haven’t brain-bleached yet.
My friend works in the billing department of a local hospital, and she will occasionally text me some crazy spellings she comes across.
yeah that’s literally a HIPAA violation lol
esp if the spelling is that unique, it’s definitely identifying info
La-a (Pronounced La-dash-ah) is the weirdest one I’ve seen
The first time I read that it was le-a , which could be read as les without the dash
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.
Seems to be an urban legend tough. Also racist.
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.
