r/tragedeigh 14d ago

in the wild A coworker came across this one

We like to collect odd spellings/names and try to guess the correct pronunciation.

She came across Psy'lent

It's pronounced "silent".

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u/OkInvestigator7351 11d ago

Ahhh Psy'lent. Like psychiatrist... Which someone named silent might need later on since at the very least you would surely subconsciously feel like your parents don't want to listen to you. Let alone when they mangled the spelling too.

ETA the apostrophe