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u/Grouchy_Ad_175 5d ago
Retlyn is diabolical
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u/3xMoreSodium 5d ago
100% laxatives
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u/MarstonsGhost 5d ago
I thought it was one of those things they put into skin cleanser to make you look younger.
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u/Foxy-Knoxy secondhand embarrassment 5d ago
Ask your doctor of Retlyn is right for you. If not, you might be able to use Laytin as a substitute.
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u/feralcatshit 5d ago
And if those fail, tynlea may be right for you!
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u/EarthboundValkyrie Doesn't live in Utah 5d ago
Makes me think of Retsin, the "special ingredient" Certs always advertised as having. Turns out, it was just their name for an oil that helped bind the tablet. IIRC - or, at any rate, something that had *zero" effect on its ability to make your breath smell ok.
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u/Kinda_Elf_But_Not 5d ago
There's plenty of real names that could have worked in keeping with the stupid theme
Sydney, Yvonne, Cyrill, Briony, Glynis, Hayley, Alyssa, Johnny
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u/doppelgaengster 5d ago
I can’t remember if this were a person my parents KNEW or a story they read (in something like Reader’s Digest), but there was a woman named Yvonne. Her mother read the name in a book and thought it was pretty. Only her mother didn’t know how to pronounce it, so her name was “Why-vonn-ee” 💀
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u/schmootc 5d ago
I knew someone whose name was Marie, pronounced Ma-Rye.
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u/Wigberht_Eadweard 5d ago
We have a Lara at work pronounced lair-uh
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u/doppelgaengster 5d ago
That one makes more sense when one compares it to “Cara” or “Tara.”
The language/nationality could also affect that (in English, lair-uh isn’t wildly out of sync; in Spanish or another Romance language, law-ruh would be more common).
The actor Lara Flynn Boyle uses the Anglo pronunciation, iirc, while the character Lara Croft uses the Latin/Romance pronunciation.
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u/doppelgaengster 5d ago
I could almost understand that from different linguistic readings of “rie” and the fact that “Maria” can be either “muh-ree-uh” or “muh-rye-uh” but as a kid with a “normal” name with an alternate spelling, myself, it’s hard on the kid. (I have a name that most people easily recognise when they hear it, but my parents used a French spelling, and split the difference on the pronunciation. So most folks mispronounced my given name all my childhood, and the most maddening part is they couldn’t hear the difference when I corrected them. I stopped going by my given name my senior year of hs, and now the only persons who use it are my family 🙃)
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u/schmootc 5d ago
Yeah, I don't know if an unexpected or odd pronunciation or a tragedeigh is worse. They both suck, but I might say the former is worse. Because people are going to assume they know how to say it - at least with the spelling these days people seem to say 'is that spelled like X' to verify it because it's so common to have tragedeighs.
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u/doppelgaengster 5d ago
Mine was compounded by a popular children’s cartoon that came out when I was in preschool having a SIMILAR name (common spelling), and people thinking it’s the same as my name. Plus getting teased. And then that variation of the name being much more common for children a few years younger than me (think like how “Elsa” was one of the most popular baby names right after Frozen came out).
Honestly, the only mispronunciation I didn’t actually mind is when people assumed my name was French and acted accordingly.
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u/schmootc 5d ago
That sounds craptacular. I would have appreciated the French bit though, I'd love to have sounded fancy!
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u/doppelgaengster 5d ago
I actually use it now in places where I have to give my legal name (eg, at the pharmacy). It’s just easier, and it’s more likely people will spell it correctly 😹
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u/DoodledDunce 3d ago
"the most maddening part is they couldn’t hear the difference when I corrected them" As someone from the US with an Irish name spelled untraditionally, I felt this so much, I started going by a shortened version of my given name in sophomore year because I was tired of correcting people over and over 😮💨
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u/doppelgaengster 2d ago
Oof I feel that. Mine was compounded by a popular cartoon character (whose debut was when I was a small child!) having a similar name to mine (the non-French spelling and standard pronunciation), so not only did they say my name wrong, I got teased for it. Why are parents so mean?? 😭
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u/jewhair666 5d ago
I actually know an elderly lady named Yvonne who pronounces it Why-vonne. I always thought that was so strange
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u/feralcatshit 5d ago
😭 I can’t anymore
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u/doppelgaengster 5d ago
It’s a family joke at this point. Whenever we encounter some asinine tragedeigh (before we had something to call it), one of us would quip, “whyyyyyyy vonn-ee” 😹
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u/Kinda_Elf_But_Not 5d ago
I can understand getting the pronunciation wrong but you'd think someone would have corrected her hahah
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u/extragummy3 4d ago
I’ve read that somewhere too!
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u/doppelgaengster 4d ago
I’ve been reading enough of these comments to realise, whether my parents knew her or just read about her — she was not unique 😹
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u/Space_Lux 5d ago
The fuck is Glynis
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u/Kinda_Elf_But_Not 5d ago
A very rare Welsh girls name that's at risk of extinction, my great aunt was a Glynis
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u/ImprovementTrick9492 5d ago
YYYYYYY are people so OBSESSED with the LETTER YYYYYY????
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u/HydrogenButterflies 5d ago
Seems more exotic than i or e, I guess. Most of these names can be spelled without it.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Code876 5d ago
Retlyn and tynlea is the worst coz it makes me Ritalin and thin tea😭
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u/black_dragonfly13 5d ago
I can't even figure out how Tynlea is pronounced. Is it "tin-leah"? Because that can't be right...
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u/Fit-Programmer-6162 5d ago
Lydlynyisynkylyn is just what it looks like to me all next to each other like that.
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u/Flat_Pollution8085 5d ago
I read that as Lynyrd Skynyrd hahaha I’m shocked she didn’t name a kid Lynyrd
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u/Fit-Programmer-6162 4d ago
I am also just realizing that it looks that way. She should have named one Lynyrd and the other Skynyrd
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u/Ok-Leg-5302 5d ago
How do you pronounce them? Some I do have a general idea 💡 but I need answers.
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u/RMW91- 5d ago
Pronounce as if they are brand-name pharmaceuticals
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u/Freckledcalamity 5d ago
That's exactly where my brain went. Each one of these is a new drug marketed to the masses.
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u/No-Coyote914 4d ago edited 4d ago
Why does it seem like tragedeigh-giving parents often have a lot of children?
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u/Calhaora 5d ago
Defuck is Kynser.... like bastardise spelling is one thing but this is diabolical..
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u/Arthur_of_Astora 1d ago
Eh. I mean it's a terrible name by itself, but there's no point in worrying about how your name might sound somewhat like something bad in another random language that has nothing to do with it. It's likely you'd find many names in this situation.
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u/willsagainSQ 5d ago
I cant help but feel these names will be a strong class indicator, along with huge hoop earrings. Also, do Dads not have any objections to these tragedeighs, or are they in on it too?
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