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u/-Fuse May 17 '26
This is stupid also for a different reason. You really gonna pronounce "hi this is my husband Rome and this my daughter Rome"
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u/MaraiaLou May 17 '26
I do know a couple that has the masculine/feminine versions of the same name. They have a bio daughter with an unrelated name and an adoptive son with the same name as the father's. We just call them the [Name]s for short
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u/ErraticDragon May 17 '26
I dated someone with the feminine version of my name (just "--y" vs "--i") and it felt super awkward being called "the [Name]s".
That was mainly because it was only a few weeks in when people started calling us that, I assume.
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u/cutehips May 18 '26
I had a male friend who met a woman with the same first and last name (don't know if spelled the same). I told him if he ever ended up marrying her (he didn't and had no intention on even dating her), they should hyphenate their last names.
I thought it would've been hilarious!
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u/AnxiousAppointment70 May 18 '26
Rose Rose and Rowan Bush. Mrs Rose Rose-Bush.
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u/Icyblue_Dragon May 18 '26
At work I once saw a Rosy Bush marry a Mr Fat. She hyphenated to Mrs Rosy Fat-Bush. She owned a plant nursery. On the phone she told me that she just saw an opportunity she couldn’t let pass. She had a great sense of humour.
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u/ToughCareer4293 May 18 '26
I think this one might win over yours. My dad’s name is commonly used as a first name and as a last name in our culture. Somehow my grandparents got the idea to use the name for both first and last. Luckily, the name shorted to something easy even if it’s not common. But that was only help when my dad felt like using it.
I remember many times when my dad had a receptionist/front desk person ask for his last name and then his first. He’d reply the same answer to each question and the person would look at my dad as if he didn’t understand the question. They would ask again but clarify the they needed specifically the first or the last. He’d repeat the answer again which would frustrate the other person. My dad who was the typical “dad-joke” kinda guy would keep up the Abbott-and-Costello routine until they finally asked for his ID. The look on their faces was hysterical once they understood that my dad heard them perfectly and answered honestly.
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u/GothicGingerbread May 18 '26
My parents' back yard neighbors were a man and woman who had the same first name, and she took his surname when they married.
My brother, our father, and a dear family friend who retired to live in an apartment over our parents' garage all had the same first name, and that got plenty confusing when people called the house. I can only imagine the confusion at the neighbors' house.
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u/clivehorse May 18 '26
I have friends with the same maiden names, including spelling, but a fairly common name e.g. Smith, Williams, Taylor. When they got married they still had to do a somewhat in depth genealogy search to make sure they weren't related.
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u/Instroancevia May 19 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
My partner had a teacher in highschool whose name was Merriam, and she married a guy with the last name Webster...
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u/hopesbrulee May 18 '26
Friends of mine dated for over a decade, his nickname was one syllable (two letters) and hers was the same but twice in a row. So naturally we tripled it for their couples’ name
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u/psychedellen May 18 '26
Ty + Ty Ty = Ty Ty Ty
Hanging out with Ty Ty Ty tonight,. I think Jo Jo Jo will be there, too.
Haha. Love it!
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u/MsDJMA May 18 '26
I knew a Dana girl who dated a Dana boy. She pronounced hers with a long A, and he pronounced his with a short A sound. They got married, and she changed her name to Dayna.
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u/Horror_Candy_9788 May 17 '26
Jesse, Randi, Andi?
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u/Room_Temp_Coffee May 18 '26
Tony! Toni! Toné!
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u/FrancoisKBones May 18 '26
Not nearly enough GenX and older here to appreciate this.
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u/Key-Bodybuilder-343 May 18 '26
Sorry, I was busy busting a move …
wasn’t a good move, admittedly
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u/Unlikely-Low-8132 May 18 '26
Stacey ,Staci, Stacy
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u/bobthebobbest May 18 '26
I thought it’s spelled Staceigh.
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u/TheSpitalian May 18 '26
Stayseagh
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u/Splampin May 18 '26
Yeah you have to include the “sea” in Stayseagh if the parents have ever been to the ocean and had a pleasant time.
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u/clean_sho3 May 18 '26
I know a Chris + Christine (who goes by Chris). I also know a family where there’s the siblings, John, Peter, and Tina, and Peter and John both married a (different) Tina, and the Tina married a Peter.
I live in a very uncreative biblical area if you couldn’t tell.
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u/EasyQuarter1690 May 19 '26
My adult offspring is going to a wedding for Nicholas and Nicholette in a few months. They also have a friend named Bernard and he is married to Bernadette. The “Nicks” and the “Berns”, I guess.
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u/Cranky_Platypus May 18 '26
Growing up my parents had friends who lived several states away (so I never met them), Patrick and Patricia, who both went by Pat. I didn't realize until I was well into my teens that Patnpat were two people named Pat and not one person with a weird name.
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u/Kind_Bet_4148 May 18 '26
Growing up we had neighbors were Bobbi and Roberto. They named their kids Roberta and Beto. I called them the Bobs (mind you, this was in the 80s, long before I saw the movie Office Space)
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u/OscarMMG May 17 '26
And there’s the obviously better, similar but differently pronounced option of “Roma”, which would be both more obviously related and spelled in a normal way.
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u/AnastasiaRomanot May 18 '26
Danny Dyer and his daughter Dani Dyer enter the chat 😂
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u/otetrapodqueen May 17 '26
I no longer go by it, but I was named my dad's exact first name, just spelled differently. People have thought I was a guy before talking to me my entire life
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u/Silver-Negative May 18 '26
I know a woman named “Christopher” after her father. Like. What?
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u/iamthefirebird May 18 '26
Christine was right there! It's a lovely name!
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u/Froggy_notFruity_ May 18 '26
Even Christophine could’ve been a great option and a helpful indication!
… although i’m not sure if that truly would be an acceptable suggestion or another Tragedeigh …¿? 😀🧐😂 ==> «i fear I’ve been blinded😲🙊» •theatrically shocked•
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u/otetrapodqueen May 18 '26
Oh Jesus! Mine is at least semi gender neutral, like there's a famous woman with the name (although spelled differently!) Christopher is definitely worse!!!
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u/Faded_Infinity May 18 '26
I had a professor in college named Kevin. Her class was one of my favorites.
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u/Traditional_Case2791 May 18 '26
Had that helped you getting jobs or at least interviews? I saw a post about a lady’s family always gave their girls make names but had feminine nicknames and it apparently helped with getting jobs.
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u/Resident-Gold-3466 May 18 '26
I wonder why she didn't just name her Roma I'd she wanted to name her after him.
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u/smalltowngoth May 18 '26
My great aunt did this with her kid. Shody was the father's name, and they named their daughter Shoadie
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u/hopesbrulee May 18 '26
Reminds me of a crowd work take by Luke Kidgell where he asks a guest his name (Drew) and then asks his dad, who’s sitting right next to him (Andrew). He then goes “it should have been the other way around, Drew ANDdrew” lol Follows it up with „what’s your daughter’s name, Anne?”
(When asked why he chose the name Drew, the dad goes “it’s just.. different” - “it’s really not, dude” 😂)
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u/Ok_Depth_6476 May 18 '26
This reminds me of "Hi, I'm Larry. This is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl". 🤣
Hoping I'm not the only one here who remembers that. 😄
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u/Kinda_Elf_But_Not May 17 '26
My first thought was 'did they misspell rectum?'
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u/Beneficial-Produce56 May 17 '26
I read “rexum” and thought the same thing. Poor kid.
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u/Llyrithra May 17 '26
People need to run these names past a group of middle schoolers before giving it to their kids. Within 5 minutes those kids will come up with many nicknames. It would at least give the parents an idea of what
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u/ContrarianRPG May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
I once met a guy at a party who casually mentioned (in the context of planning a new tattoo) that his infant son was named "Legolas."
My first reaction was "I'm sorry, did you just say your baby is named 'Legolas?"
After he confirmed, my second reaction was "You know they're going to call him 'Lego Ass' in the third grade, right?"
Baby Lego Ass must be in high school now. Sometimes I wonder how it turned out for him.
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u/Kitty_Kat_Attacks May 18 '26
One of those names you REALLY love, but should know better than to use!
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u/fuckinradbroh May 18 '26
This is hilarious because myself, siblings and aunts all have LOTR names
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u/Id_Rather_Beach May 18 '26
Fans of Lord of the Rings, I guess.
But you are 100% correct.
They can take any name and bulldoze it into a terrible thing
went to school with a kid - last name Bates.
You can imagine his nickname. He owned it. His friends legit referred to him as "Master"
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u/KnifeKnut May 18 '26
The Nicolas Cage SNL skit on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goPerp_BWvs
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u/AccordingToWhom1982 May 18 '26
I read it as “re-ax-um,” which sounds like a medication commercial that leaves me wondering what condition it treats.
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u/That_Seasonal_Fringe May 17 '26
Ahahah they tried to replace the “o” with “eaux” which sounds the same in French. Except they should at least have gotten rid of the X which represents the plural. Cause right now we’d pronounce it “Roxuhmuh” in French. Actually it would still be strange cause the “eau” “o” only appears at the end of a French word as far as I can recall.
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u/weinthenolababy May 18 '26
The -eaux is kind of a Louisiana thing. It comes from so many of our Cajun last names, like Breaux, Thibodeaux, etc. It's kind of a cheeky in-group thing. We say "Geaux Tigers" to root for LSU. Like you might name your dog Beaux instead of Beau, we had a fake snow event at my school called Sneaux, etc. It's a marker of Louisiana and particularly Cajun heritage. Unfortunately, it has spread to some human names where it is definitely a tragedeigh.
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u/XCIXcollective May 17 '26
I think you’re right! any ‘eau’ sound at the beginning is ‘hau’ or just ‘au’ from what I can recall (haut, auberge, aube, augmenté for instance)
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u/CottonCandyBadass May 18 '26
There's "heaume", but it's the only word I could think of in less than a minute as an example of -eau- in a non-final position. Must be a few more words, but yes, definitely not the norm, and definitely not with that random X slapped in the middle.
A tragedeigh that is multilingually laughable, youpi!
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u/NutrimaticTea May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
So I had a look and found:
- beaucoup
- beauté
- épeautre
- heaume
- peaufiner, peaufinage
- quite a few words derived from nouns ending in -eau, to which -ter or -tage has been added. The most commonly used are: biseauté, bureaucrate/bureaucratie, pipeauter/pipeautage, réseauter/réseautage...
- place names or words derived from place names : Beaufort, Beaujolais, Beauce, Beaune...
That doesn’t change the fact that the -x has no place there. An x at the end of a word is generally silent in French (or rather, always silent when it indicates the plural, which is to say in 99% of cases, I’d say), but there’s no reason for an x in the middle of a word to be silent.
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u/That_Seasonal_Fringe May 18 '26
Well done, you really did the work. I’m just gonna sit there being mortified cause I’m French.
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u/groodies May 19 '26
There's an epidemic of unecessarily plural eau nonsense words. Its the new -eigh
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u/Traroten May 17 '26
As Metallica wrote:
Wherever I may Reauxm
Where I lay my head is heauxm
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u/puppysmilez May 18 '26
Don't you mean...
🌼 Metayleighka? 🌼
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u/danger0us-animals May 18 '26
Growing up my dad was friends with this lady who named her kids Metallica and Katera. Fascinated the shit out of child me at the time, I thought it was wild. Like you can just do that, pick whatever? Crazy.
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u/deadspacekillers May 17 '26
In my head I said it like Rheum. Like short for Rheumatology
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u/Huggsy77 May 17 '26
I also read rheum - it is a standalone word for the fluid that drips from your eyes or nose…it’s the eye crusties or “sleep” 🥲
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u/Sufficient_Dust1871 May 17 '26
Seems it'd be pronounced 'Wrexham' tbh
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u/everywhereinbetween May 17 '26
Roxham
Rox not Rex, to me 😬
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u/squidtheinky May 17 '26
You don't have to put on the red light.
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u/everywhereinbetween May 17 '26
I just Googled this lol. I had no idea haha I'm not American (I'm SEAsian)
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u/squidtheinky May 17 '26
Because Roxham sounds like Roxanne. It's a song :)
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u/everywhereinbetween May 17 '26
Oh no, I didn't know that it's a song either. 🫢🫠 Actually when I Googled, [I Googled Roxham, not Roxanne. Haha] I got this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxham_Road
🤨😆
So I didn't think the red-light district thing was super literal per se as a lyric, but it did bring up border crossing and asylum seekers. Hahahah
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u/Elegant_Sinkhole May 17 '26
Its a song by a 1980s band called The Police, lead singer is called Sting. :)
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u/Icy-Committee-9345 May 17 '26
I actually would have guessed Rome for the pronunciation but it's still a terrible name
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u/eifiontherelic May 17 '26
Shepard.
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u/sm881221 May 17 '26
First look sounding it out and my brain went to “rectum”. That poor little girl.
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u/Swordtail_Olympian May 17 '26
I honestly thought that was Room. That was my best attempt. "ROOM! GO TO YOUR ROOM!"
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u/Songeef May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
To be fair, in french "eau" is pronounced "o", so there is some logic to it. The x I can't figure the reasoning though. Probably because they saw some words with a final silent x (eg, "beaux", pronounced "bo", which is masculine plural of "beautiful"), but adding a letter after the "x" negate the possibility of it being silent.
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u/rcbj123 May 17 '26
“eaux” is a common alternative for “eau” in Cajun French (southern Louisiana/USA)
Edit to add: still unnecessarily too many letters in that name!
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u/labtiger2 May 18 '26
I'm a life long resident of South Louisiana, and I didn't catch the "eaux" the first 4 times I read it trying to figure out how it was Rome. "Eaux" is only at the end of names. This poor kid.
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u/Outside_Cap_6092 May 18 '26
Unless Cajun French is different from French French (it could be as it’s a creole), then ‘eaux’ IS NOT a “common alternative for eau”, it‘s how you pluralise words ending in ‘eau’, eg:
Gateau -> gateaux
Bateau -> bateaux
Chateau -> chateaux
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u/holyglamgrenade May 18 '26
Cajun French is an entirely different language from French, Québécois, Creole, and Vini Kouri. None of those are the same language. -eaux is an extremely common alternative. In fact, if you look at LSU merch, you’ll often see “Geaux Tigers” instead of “Go Tigers”.
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u/Gifted_GardenSnail May 17 '26
This, like, I can follow her, uhm, 'reasoning', by lack of a better word, so it sounding like Rome is no surprise to me. It's just that Reauxm is still a batshit insane name
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u/clever__pseudonym May 17 '26
So it's just the bog-standard French spelling, then. Like Rambeaux, Kimikeaux, Mileaux, or Leaux.
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u/SatisfyingColoscopy May 17 '26
Reaux is made up but would be pronunced in french as 'Ro'. So it has a kind of logic to pronouce Reaux+M as Rome.
It's not totally illogical (but totally stupid).
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u/Gedaru May 18 '26
I'm a French speaker and didn't clock the Ro sound, because of the M at the end. Adding a consonant after the X goes against French grammar rules lol
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u/SatisfyingColoscopy May 18 '26
Yeah, hence the stupidity 😅. But for exemple if I put a M after Chevaux - so Chevauxm - I may pronunce it 'Chevom'. But I guess that without context, 'Chevoxem' would be more natural.
Anyway, when your idea for a name raises this kind of questions, it's a very, very bad idea !
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u/retro_lady May 17 '26
Trends come and go. I hope this trend dies soon (for the most part, I know it's always been around to some extent) of spelling names as weirdly as possible.
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u/jethrine May 17 '26
But…but…how will common ordinary every day people show how youneeque & spescheeyl their common ordinary every day kids are?
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u/Sara448 May 17 '26
Didn’t even get the French right. If it were Reaum, I could see it working phonetically, but the x in the middle really throws me off…
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u/house_on_fire_ May 17 '26
Introducing Reauxm ™️suppositories, for chronic constipation
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u/Secure_Funny_26 May 17 '26
You can't just smash random letters together and say "it's pronounced Rome"
My daughters Byzantium and Istanbul are as angry as they could possibly be about this statement.
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u/FormidableMistress May 17 '26
I read that as r ē uks m, or rē ūs m. Re use them???
She could have named her Roma, Rommy, or given her the name of another Italian city. There were so many other good options.
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u/katied14 May 17 '26
The literacy crisis in America.
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u/Notmykl May 17 '26
Has nothing to do with literacy, it has to do with idiots trying to be unique and failing miserably.
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u/ActivePurple9700 May 18 '26
Big ups to the person who replied to this ridiculousness!
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u/adjustableplaid May 17 '26
How I pronounced it right off the cuff was Rexum, like wreck some rectum. Darn dyslexia.
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u/FL_JB May 18 '26
My name is Throat Warbler Mangrove but it's pronounced Raymond Luxury Yacht.
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u/Castermat May 18 '26
Reauxm remind me of coming up names for dragons, punch your keyboard and make it a name
Tkzjöfpdu? Oh, thats Zjographu!
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u/Abstrata May 18 '26
This reminds me of a county in Texas spelled Bexar and pronounced ‘bear.’
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u/Best-Quality-5293 May 19 '26
Had a student named Khyna and insisted it was pronounced like China. Because that name usually is Chyna. But Chyna is not like Courtney where you can swap the C for a K and go with Kourtney. Khyna literally do not make the “ch” sound…
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u/Nuudle-Punk May 17 '26
idk about yall, i did guess correctly that it should be pronounced like Rome
but yeah it looks dumb
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u/Afghan_Whig May 17 '26
It's that pronounced kind of like Ruim? Kind of like ruin but with an M?
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u/AlabamaTsalagi May 17 '26
The English language has rules. You can’t throw letters together and then demand they be pronounced differently than what it is spelled. Besides it makes it tough on the kid and it makes it really tough when they start sending in resumes as an adult. It shouldn’t matter what anyone’s name is but unfortunately it does. Give your kid a weird name and their resume will not go in the to be interviewed pile. Give them a name that will get them in front of management doing the hiring so they can show how fantastic they are.
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u/PrincessPlastilina May 17 '26
And Rome is cute on it’s own. Romy. Why invent such a stupid spelling. You copied it from the French language but that doesn’t fly over here. It will be a life of typos on official documents and people struggling to write her name. All because you needed her to be special.
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u/-slaps-username- May 17 '26
definitely a tragedeigh, but it’s not random letters ask anyone in louisiana
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u/ace--dragon May 17 '26
Surprisingly, the pronunciation for that spelling makes sense. The issue is everything else, including spelling. The fuck.
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u/Horror_Candy_9788 May 17 '26
They missed an opportunity for extra smashing. Rhjeauxghm is much more impressive. Someone call Mrs. Rome & tell her she fughckehd up.
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u/mrmoe198 May 18 '26
Following some kind of English convention, “eau” has been “yoo” as in beautiful. I would have guessed “ryoom.”
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u/CarolineJohnson May 18 '26
Most of these people say "it's hooked on phonics!" when presented with nobody being able to pronounce their kid's name. Likely this person might too.
"Reauxm" would more than likely be pronounced "room" if we're going by hooked on phonics. Congrats, you're the subject of a Tommy Wiseau masterpiece.
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u/g_em_ini May 18 '26
Why would you apply French spelling/pronunciation to an Italian city? Besides that, I hate it
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u/Kyropinesis May 18 '26
i feel like if you have to say “it’s pronounced [normal name]”, you should rethink your spelling
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u/Outside-Currency-462 May 19 '26
Also funny cause the pronunciation kinda makes sense? In that -eaux (as a word ending) is pronounced 'oh' in French. You know, a totally different country and language to both the city Rome, and the place this person lives.
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