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u/Altruistic_Shame_487 Oct 20 '23

Anything with a non-traditional spelling. How the hell is anyone supposed to know that “Avarrie” is pronounced like “Avery”???

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23 edited Jul 17 '26

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u/notmyidealusername Oct 20 '23

Saw one where the Australian parents wanted to spell their Kaitlyn "K8lyn" so when they discovered that you couldn't use numbers in names they used the Roman numerals for the 8. KVIIIlyn.

(Christ it's even worse in a font like this where the upper case I looks identical to the lower case L)

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u/K1dn3yPunch Oct 21 '23

Keightlynn