The guiness book of records had an entry for the worst spelling in the old days before the book was dumbed down. Trying to spell 'usage' the incorrect attempt was youzitch achieving only one correct letter.
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Penny Hardaway was legit!
There's a girl in my kid's class named Eighmee. Pronounced "Amy". I thought it was weird but there's a street in a neighboring town named Eighmee Street.
Eighew! Ouarew?
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Brayden, Braxton, Bentley, Aiden, Axel, Keith.
Axel is the normal spelling around here (Switzerland), so I'm interested what you would have expected instead? Aksel?
Maybe it's Excel
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"Shithead"
Pronounced: shi-THEED
Spelled: Shit Head
How can it be legal to literally name your kid an insult? Child protection gotta intervene.
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I used to know an Alyssa whose name was pronounced like Alicia. Her parents went let's give her one name but spell it just like another name.
I used to work with someone who changed a letter for their child’s name, then posted on Facebook moaning cause people spelt it the correct way (Not the way they had spelt it.), in the comments someone posted how they had deliberately spelt their child’s name some different way and were complaining that everyone was spelling it properly. Can’t remember either names or spellings now, this was well over a decade ago.
Weird. I knew an Alicia who pronounced it Alyssa.
Cultural thing too. Sometimes words in their language are translated weirdly.
I knew of an African-American named Le-a.
Not spoken as “ley-ah”, but as “ledasha”.
Because you are supposed to say the dash.
I too have been to the internet.
I appreciate you posting the snopes. I am more bothered than I probably should be when someone claims this is real and if OP is willing to lie about something so mundane then none of their posts should be believed.
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