r/tragedeigh • u/foolish_username • 2d ago
in the wild Got one in the wild today
Wyntr. Yep, no actual vowels at all. I had a professional email conversation with this person today.
Nobody ever believes me, but about 15 years ago I worked in a call center with a young lady named Aqua Netta. I am not joking. She went by Netta. She sat 3 rows behind me. She had to spell and explain her name to callers dozens of times a day.
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u/Deep-Cut-6532 2d ago
Was this call center in Hot Springs, Arkansas? I was a supervisor in a call center in that town that had a woman in it with that name! I feel like the universe is folding in on itself...
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u/foolish_username 1d ago
San Diego
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u/Deep-Cut-6532 20h ago
Well, then there are two in the wild. For the record, she was one of the nicest people on the floor, bar none.
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u/Icy_Elephant8858 1d ago
Y is a vowel when it is used as a vowel.
Still, this is another casualty in the war on vowels, because even if Y is the only vowel you can use (for some trageique reason) it should still be Wyntyr, which is bad for sure, but not in the same league of terrible as the "syllable that wasn't there" terminal -tr.
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u/Vintage_Zoo 1d ago
I did customer service for a defunct cell phone company and I had a Custer call in with the name Aquanetta! That was about 30 years ago.
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u/Perfect-Brain-3270 1d ago
What's tradjick about Aqua Netta? Honest question
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u/dumbass_sempervirens 1d ago
Aqua Net is a hairspray.
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u/Perfect-Brain-3270 7h ago
Haha okay!
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u/dumbass_sempervirens 7h ago
All those 1960s beehive hairdoos? That was Aqua Net.
Apparently chock full of chloroflourocarbons, so it got banned along with leaded gasoline to stop acid rain.
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u/Prize-Astronaut777 1d ago
Just looked it up...there was a 1940's-50's B movie across named Aquanetta!!! She was born in 1921 as Mildred Davenport. Her stage name was Aquanetta!
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u/Dafni_Zarou 1d ago
Parents really need to test out these types of names by saying them out loud or even do the Starbucks tip that I once saw in passing. Because if your kid has to explain her name twelve times in one day, you should have went with a different name or fixed the spelling.
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u/one_of_the_millions 1d ago
Add a few more consonants and that's a perfectly acceptable (and unpronounceable) Welsh name.
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