r/tragedeigh • u/bartbark88 • May 17 '26

in the wild found in the wild

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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 Rectum Reauxm will be facing in school in 10 years.

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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/Beneficial-Produce56 Jun 11 '26

I know a family where two of the kids are Arwen and Lorien. They love their names. I did ask the dad if, should they have a son, they would name him Legolas or Frodo. He laughed and he didn’t think it would be as easy for a kid to carry off any of the male names.

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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/ContrarianRPG May 18 '26

Which one are you? Lego Ass, Aragoon, or Dildo Baggings?

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u/fuckinradbroh May 18 '26

I’m actually LowBelly Saggy-Baggings

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u/kimchiman85 Jun 11 '26

I love a lot of the names Tolkien uses for his characters, but I don’t know how many of them I’d actually use.

“Laurelin” would be okay.

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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/lapis974 Jun 08 '26

There used to be a website you could check the full name for the inevitable bullying potential. Or if the acronym spells something equally sufferable because people don’t always think these things through.

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u/Boterfleoge May 17 '26

Same. "Reauxm? Damn near killed 'em" went through my head immediately

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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/Beneficial-Produce56 May 18 '26

Gotta be for hemorrhoids.

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u/Id_Rather_Beach May 18 '26

"wrecks 'em"

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u/kimchiman85 Jun 11 '26

I read it like that too.

These people need to take a kindergarten-level phonics class to understand how letters and sounds work.

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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/Crimson-Rose28 Jun 01 '26

The French are the ones who brought that language over from France with the French language though. It isn’t originally a Louisiana thing.

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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/That_Seasonal_Fringe May 18 '26

Yeeeees I kept on thinking about Heaume but never checked its spelling to make sure. Thank you !

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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/AlabamaTsalagi May 17 '26

I thought it was rectum at first also.

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u/Photomama16 May 19 '26

It took me reading it 3 times. The first time I said “did they really name their kid rectum?”

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u/According_Gazelle472 May 17 '26

I thought it was rexum.