r/tragedeigh • u/coldmang0 • 2d ago
general discussion sharing some ridiculous spellings i have encountered in the past year
rahjier
leighym
jesikah
rayleighawna
aerich
sheilah
k-lee
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u/Perfect-Brain-3270 2d ago
Leighym is... Liam? Liam is getting popular in my country and it's a bit o a tragedy already...
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u/do_you_have_a_flag42 2d ago
That fourth one is baffling. Raylehannah?
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u/StrumWealh 2d ago edited 1d ago
That fourth one is baffling. Raylehannah?
I would assume "rayleighawna" is supposed to be pronounced similarly to "ray-lee-ana".
As similar examples, Guyana-born West Indian cricket player Realeanna Grimmond pronounces her own name as "ree-lee-ana", and "Raelee" ("ray-lee") is a known and established English-language name (e.g. Australian cricketer Raelee Thompson, Australian actress Raelee Hill, American sculptor Raelee Frazier).
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u/Used-Minimum7376 2d ago
I met a Sheila once who insisted it’s pronounced Shayla
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u/meowfttftt 2d ago
That sounds like a hillbilly woman yelling for her spawn. SHAAYYLLAA get cher ass in here.
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u/coldmang0 2d ago
reminds me of a "nathalie" i knew who told us it wasn't pronounced the same way as natalie, but the way th is in the word thimble
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u/StrumWealh 2d ago
sharing some ridiculous spellings i have encountered in the past year
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rahjier
"Rahjier" seems like it might be an alternate English transliteration of "Rajir" (Persian: راجير), or a similar non-English-origin name? 🤔
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u/DarlingDemonLamb 1d ago
I thought “k-lee” was “Kay-dash-lee” like Kate-Ashley. Then I realized it’s Kaylie.
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u/Recent-Individual132 1d ago
Sometimes I don't realise what subreddit I'm looking at and think "someone must have smashed their keyboard"
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u/Rose-Lizard 1d ago
Ok here goes:
Rajia
Liam
Jessica
Raleigh-Anna?
Eric
Sheila (I have seen it spelt that way before, it's a fairly common name over here)
Kaylie (oldest variation of the name, according to Wikipedia) (also I cannot with this one. Like, I would feel compelled to call that poor person "Klee". I would not be able to stop myself.)
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u/CormorantCrow 1d ago
"K. Lee" would make a world of difference for that child, kind of like how it's supposed to be T. rex and not T-Rex.
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