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I will never understand obtuse alternate spellings that are just homophones. Like Trinity spelled Triniteigh accomplishes nothing.
What a tragedeigh
Or tragideh if you’re Canadian
Is there a similar community for these here on lemmy?
Start one, call it lemmeigh
Brilleighant.
As you wish:
(Though I have no experience, does anybody have tips or something for running a community?)
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
This one is truly a… Mystereigh
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
You’re just sentencing your child to forever have to spell out their name to strangers
Meh, depending on the last name that might happen anyway. I just spell out my last name by default now.
Trying to be Irish without setting foot in the old country for 5 generations
“It’s spelled Seamus, but I go by James”
Reminds me of the article about black Americans visiting Africa and being devastated that they weren’t “welcomed home” but rather just treated as visiting American tourists.
It’s cute
It doesn’t even sound Irish, it just sounds extremely white American
I worked under someone at an old job who named his son Jaxon. And kept pictures Jaxon drew and signed on the wall of his office. So every time I needed something from him, I would have to see Jaxon’s name in his office. And I hated it.
Did Jaxon use Jaxon Crayons?
I have no idea.
Was his middle name Mississippi?
We might have the same employer! Or at least I hope so, I can’t imagine two different sets of parents deciding that “Jackson” is just too boring
It was a long time ago and he quit before I did, so doubtful.
honestly, jaxon is almost acceptable. Much like bryan with a y.
Did Jaxon have cybernetic arms?
It reminds Big Literacy that they can’t control our minds
Whoa! Calling you out on some pretty blatant homophonophobia here!
Because you hate your child but don’t believe in abortion. Just yesterday, I avoided spelling my preferred email on a phone call because a company already had a different address on file.
Ex and I once joked about this subject. We decided it’d be funny to named an unwanted child Paisley.
Mike Hawk
Jenna Talya
Or just James, but spelled Chaymz
To keep in line with the conversation thread, Paisleigh
I can’t read it as anything other than trinitaaay
But the pronunciation of Triniteigh would have the sound like “neighbor” so wouldn’t be said like Trinity (tee)…
Not necessarily. Think Leigh and its relatives (e.g., Ashleigh, Kayleigh, Charleigh*)
*made that one up but still,
Um, I had someone in my class named Kayleigh, and it was indeed pronounced Kay-lay. I pronounce all these like “lay”, I don’t understand the example.
Hm. In my experience, -eigh has always been pronounced -ee. In most cases, Leigh is a homophone of Lee, as it comes from an English word meaning “meadow”, and you’ll find many pronunciation guides that confirm this. Not that I find it all that intuitive, I would have assumed it to be pronounced -lay myself, like sleigh or eight. English is dumb like that, and if you or anyone else wants to pronounce it -lay, nothing should stop you.
Actually
it’s pronounced Trinitay
genuinely, i think committing crimes against parents of those names should be legal, to a degree.
It’s actually fucking obtuse.
It’s to add a little uniqueness, and avoid them being the 14th Erica in the classroom, but not going so far as to not give them one of the “normal” names.
Or they just think it looks prettier. It doesn’t have to be about accomplishing something beyond “I like how that looks”.
I feel like “my child will be burdened by this for the rest of their life” wins over “it looks cool”
You’d be surprised how little it actually matters. It just means they have to spell it for people occasionally.
My name isn’t common here, but it’s also perfectly well known and spelled in the traditional sense.
I have to spell it for people, and often use a middle name for takeout orders. That’s about the extent of the burden of having an unusual name.
My last name is also perfectly common, and I need to spell it as well.I’ve seen a lot more “burden” on people with alphabetically late names, since they often are last in line for stuff.
Fuck you Wolfgang Atreides is money. I’d follow that baby into battle.
Also, Leviathan? 100%. And my only problem with Dusti Rose is the “I”.
Dusti Rose sounds like a matricidal professional wrestler.
Definitely a stripper name.
Gave me folk singer vibes
Or some telsel product
Yeah it made me think they wanted to name their son Dusty but had a girl, and tried to feminize it lol
Sounds like a bit actor for a Weight Watchers ad
Good luck following into battle an asthmatic baby armed with a mall katana who is easily felled by a whiff of peanuts
I’m all for unique and clear identifiers for everything, including people, but jesus christ, imagine yourself in elementary school having a weird name. Why would parents choose a hard mode for their progeny?
I’m a big proponent of normal/semi obscure normal first name, weird middle name. John W Smith if you work in sales, J Wolfgang Smith if you’re an author. Perfect compromise.
We gave our daughter a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant. We just wanted a name that wasn’t religious but still normal enough that she wouldn’t get bullied for it (she got bullied anyway). We realized later that it actually made sense in terms of her ancestry because her mother has a plant name, her grandmother has a plant name and her great-grandmother had a plant name. One long lineage of plant names.
Dude I see you around here on the regular, so I’ll mention that this is ironic for me to read this, because we also named our daughter an old, obscure but “real” name that is also a plant (a flower, specifically).
It’s from France, so I asked a French friend before using it if it was ok to use and not a weird name, and they said “sure it’s ok, but it’s like an old grandma’s name no one uses anymore.” And that’s when I knew it was the one!
Yep, that was basically our reasoning. Vintage name, so it’s memorable, but not a weird one and spelled normally.
And absolutely not religious.
Wait, it’s all bullying?
She was bullied for other reasons. Most significantly being as eccentric as her parents.
That does tend to happen to children that are half human and half flying squid
Honestly being bullied for a weird name just feels like victim blaming. It’s just someone else’s shitty behaviour we’re expected to dance around? That was the one problem with the name.
I don’t disagree, but it’s also a parental responsibility, in my opinion, to help your child avoid bullying. It’s not possible to avoid entirely, but there are definitely ways to make it worse. And a weird name is one of them.
Give a kid a weird name and the bully will pick on them but set a bully on fire… no… wait, I think I got that wrong.
It may be someone else’s problem, but as a parent , you should consider your child’s well being when naming them, and try to avoid obvious pitfalls
I mean yes obviously, but still. Just angering me we have to fight human shittiness with something like this
Always has been.
a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant
Describing it like that makes it really tempting to try and guess the name. Out of respect for your and her privacy, I won’t, though.
Okay, I admit it. Her name is Cannabis Indica.
Same boat. I think I guessed it, and it’s absolutely killing me knowing I’ll never know if I’m right. But also, my brain itch doesn’t trump doxxing a person (or even a squid) or their kid.
Ngl having “Wolfgang” as an example for a weird name was really strange to read for me… but I’m German.
It’s a pretty common practice where I live for a kid to be named after someone for their first name, but go by their middle name. So I think it’s perfectly fine to have one normal name and one weird name in any order.
A. John Smith is an accountant. Atreyu J. Smith is a musician who wears leather pants and some sort of studded headband.
Let me introduce you to Marijuana Pepsi:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Pepsi_Vandyck
The kicker is her parents and siblings have normal names.
In the fall of 2019, Vandyck sponsored the Marijuana Pepsi Scholarship for first-generation African-American students at UW–Whitewater.
If someone with a brand name… name… starts a same-industry business in their name, or offers a scholarship for nazis, I wonder what kind of recourse the original brand has.
Imagine you’re a seven years old little fat kid and your name is Leviathan
That one I actually like. It’s easy to short it to Levi in public, but still be able to flex among friends.
I guess if everyone has a weird name, that doesn’t matter. Maybe kids don’t make fun of weird names anymore. Who knows, maybe it’s the Johns and Marys who get made fun of for having uninteresting names.
My name is a standard name, but super uncommon here. It’s not that bad, since I got picked on about as much as anyone else. It’s not like they won’t just because your name is unremarkable.
Narcissism
If you don’t get bullied for your name, you’ll just get bullied for something else. At least with the name you can blame it on your parents, maybe. Kids are assholes.
Ok but Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides goes pretty hard.
Well, it TRIES pretty hard 😜
Except a kid like that automatically has a free pass for eternally being pissed about their father and their father before them not also having had that name so they could be "… the third’!
But now they can yell “I am Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides, First of my name”!
Definitely has some Rogue Trader energy to it.
I’m not one to judge parents baby names, but Merricka??
Fuck yeah!
🫡🦅🍔
Can’t forget 🔫
I was considering it, but didn’t wanna shoot the burger.
Triniteigh
This one makes Jesus cry.
Makes me cry too…
Look, it’s the holy Triniteight! Or something like that…
I thought “mispellings of basic white girl names” are funny enough, but nope, we now have mispellings of words that are not even names. Triniteigh… What’s next, Conflagurayshawn?
Trinity’s a common enough Christian name!
It’s a real tragedeigh.
i’m so fucking happy sweden has laws preventing this stuff, names here have to be approved as not causing undue harm to the child
I could see a system like that being used to racist ends in America. “Please select from the pre-approved list of biblical names”
I’m having trouble finding articles about it because search engines have become terrible, but I’ve heard trans people talk about how the Swedish law has been used to transphobic ends (and, yes, racist ones too because common names in immigrant communities weren’t on the list). There’s few gender neutral names on the approved list and getting a gendered name approved for a name change is difficult and leaves the door open for outright transphobia - and legally changing your gender required surgical sterilization in Sweden up until the end of 2012.
this sounds like FUD to me, sweden’s government is generally very progressive when it comes to stuff like this and the system is just there to prevent people naming their kids “allah”.
If anything the way we handle names is great for trans people because getting your legal name changed can be done from the comfort of your computer, largely.
Spoiler alert: Swedes aren’t above that
perhaps we have a list of “accepted variations of names” where that is what is legally recognized. Though the body will have to regulate it properly of course.
I’m proud to be an American, where at least I can name my kids Yungblud Founding Father Lee Awesome. I won’t forget the Kanyes and Jason Lee’s who named their kids weirdly. And I’ll gladly stand up next to Pilot Inspektor and Jermajesty!
Don’t mind me, I’m just the local idiot.
I dated a girl from Sweden named Saga. You guys got awesome names.
I should text her…
Sounds pretty dumb, not gonna lie.
Harm doesn’t come from names, harms comes from people.
Last thing I need is government regulation for naming my child. (It is very strictly regulated where I’m from. So a classroom of 30 kids has 6 “Johns”)
Every name was unique at some point.
Personally, I prefer names that are forbidden, like Username, Null, Admin, 'SELECT * FROM Users;-- , example@contoso.com, Error, <FirstName>,
Found the Microsoft employee.
ah yes, the classic admin, or my personal favorite. [insert product name here]
Ok Elon
Some of these names sound like those brands you only ever find on Amazon
Amazon barely even does brand names now.
A baby name from Amazon would be like “BABY CHILD YOUTH LIL ADULT 6LB 7LB 8LB DOCTOR OLYMPICS ATHLETE FAMOUS TALL INDOOR OUTDOOR EASY TO CLEAN CUTE COLLECTIBLE FAMILY 3-PACK”
Sold by Nrnrnrg, a small “Ukrainian”* family owned company trusted for generations, established last week!
*designed in the Ukraine but assembled and shipped by our “trusted Chinese partners”**.
** partnership also first formed last week, sight unseen.
But also sold by OMNIX and some other company called XENKO. And they’re using the same product picture. Weird, right?
The “6LB 7LB 8LB” bit broke me, congratulations with a hearthy laugh.
Don’t forget weird ASCII symbols.
“Introducing our daughter, Kaeighleigh Pooplunch”
What irks me the most is the effort these idiot parents will go to give their baby as basic a name as “Allison” or “Ashley”
- Ashlie
- Ashlee
- Ashly
- Ashleigh
- Ashlea
- Ashli
- Ashely
- Ashlei
- Ashleah
- Asheleigh
- Ashelie
- Ahshlee
- the list goes on and on and on
No amount of vowels is going to make your kid’s name stand out when at the end of the day it’s the same pronunciation as the most common, basic form of it.
Mötley might be weird but it’s at least unique.
the canonical spelling is ashley btw.
You spell it in any other fucking way and you should be inflicted with the curse of dyslexia for the rest of your livable life.
“Ashleigh” is normal too and not a part of this modern spelling trend. For example, this one was born in 1912: https://olympics.com/en/athletes/ashleigh-gordon-pilbrow
that’s + auto suggest is a good way to avoid getting someone else’s email at work. when I started at my new company of 300ish people there were 12 with my first 3letter name
It’s not unique at all, it’s the first half of a shitty 80s cock rock band.
It’s a child not a vanity plate
Sigurd. Felix. Wolfgang. Atreides. No one can mess with that mf.
I’ve always felt like the names we pick for ourselves ought to be more valid than the ones others choose for us. We should choose names for ourselves at different stages of life, and just tack them on in whatever order we like. You want something more fun than mummy and daddy gave you? Knock yourself out. Were your idiot parents drunk when they signed the papers? Well you can fix that at 12 if you like. We are who we choose to be and this the goddamn future.
There was a missing child report near me whose name was Mill’ionaire.
I have a half-baked outline for a character who goes by C. M. Mil’naire and is really embarrassed about the fact that his full name is actually Cash Money Mil’naire. I have no idea how to use him, but I love him too much to not keep around.
A shady merchant that arrives just when the main character needs help would work.
You’re gonna look me in the eyes and tell me Raddix isn’t straight fire?
Raddix Zephyr is def the name of the protagonist in a JRPG.
Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides is for sure the Prince in an Isekai anime.
Sigurd Felix Wolfgang Atreides
Such a weird mishmash of German, Latin and Greek, although Felix is extremely common in Germany too. Sigurd isn’t though, that’s some old germanic kinda name, like Æthelwulf in the anglosphere.
If someone in central Europe named their kid that way, that would be a give-away for a nationalistic/conservative ideology. Though Atreides obviously is from Dune lol
Japanese authors live off that kind of cringy mishmash
Forget the Coyote Bao, I’ll have the Æthelwolf Wellington
Agreed, but not with that middle name.
Funnily enough, I was talking with my kid yesterday how my parents almost named me Levi and was joking how I could just force people to call me Leviathan instead.
My nephew is named Levi and I 100% plan on calling him Leviathan when he’s a bit older. I hope my brother hates it! Haha
Sounds like a gender neutral name for a crunchy red root vegetable to me.
Drop a D and you’ve got the raddest (pun) software engineer that’ll ever grace this earth
You could shorten it to rad, and call him rad dude.
The nicknames write themselves
Yes. It’s either a plant, a foodstuff or a mathematical concept, none of which invoke the idea of “person”.
Unfortunately for you, I’ve made a meme where you’re the Soyjak and I’m the Chad, checkmate
Naming your child after the number of unique digits in a number system sure sounds fire, ig.
