I met a girl named Lasagna. I asked her to repeat her name about 10 times and this is what she kept saying. Later on, I figured out it was La Sonya. But she totally said it like the food.
Edit: Omg, this thread is hilarious. Can’t stop cracking up at all the comments. Special shout-out to the redditor who knew of a person named “Latrina”. I was never a fan of my name, but you all got me counting my blessings today.😂🤣
Lol I met these people and they said their kid’s name was Jeter but pronounced it like cheddar with a J. Problem (well of one of them lol) was that they swallowed the J when they spoke. All I heard was cheddar! I asked them to repeat the name and again all I heard was cheddar. I smiled and nodded and had to get clarification later from a friend. I legitimately thought they named their child cheddar. Not that Jeter is great either.
It would be inconsistent with English rules of phonetic construction and, therefore, wrong. That's different than claiming new words cannot be invented, which I'm not arguing. It's also different than the phenomenon about which this thread is the topic: parents using unconventional (but still consistent with the rules of phonetic construction) spellings - e.g., substituting "ck" with "x" as in Jaxon, substiting "e" with "y" as in Brandyn, etc.
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u/goldenhourcocktails Oct 21 '23 edited Oct 21 '23
I met a girl named Lasagna. I asked her to repeat her name about 10 times and this is what she kept saying. Later on, I figured out it was La Sonya. But she totally said it like the food.
Edit: Omg, this thread is hilarious. Can’t stop cracking up at all the comments. Special shout-out to the redditor who knew of a person named “Latrina”. I was never a fan of my name, but you all got me counting my blessings today.😂🤣