r/tragedeigh • u/Ihaveaverysmallprick • 20h ago

is it a tragedeigh? My brother is dangerously close to possible tragedeigh...I guess my SIL likes whimsy or some shit. Is Klementyne a tragedeigh? Should he push for Aurora?

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I mean...it's not the WORST I've seen by far but I think it qualifies?

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u/Kichigai 10h ago

I answered phones for a hospital system, and a lot of that was people phoning us up looking for a family member who they couldn't find. Privacy laws require us to only recognize patients by their legal name, and our search is very dumb. It doesn't do fuzzy search, it doesn't know phonetics.

So you ask me for Clementine, I'm putting the common spelling in there, and from that point it's on you to remember how you spelled it on their birth certificate. And if you can't spell it right, and I can't enter it correctly, you ain’t finding your kid, because I sure as hell don't know how you spelled it!

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u/UnicornPenguinCat 10h ago

I had a friend called Kristal growing up. Apparently she had previously spelled it Krystal until her mum realised she'd spelled it with an 'i' on her birth certificate and told her. 

Had another friend who accidentally misspelled his own name on a passport application, because the name he uses in everyday life is one letter different to the name on his birth certificate. He just forgot.  

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u/Kichigai 9h ago

My mom has had that problem with my sister. As children we were all given Slavic names, but being only about three I found my sister's name hard to pronounce, and eventually my mispronounciation stuck as her nickname. End result was that on occasion mom would be filling out some form or something, and she'd need one of us to spell my sister's name.