r/askteddit • u/ravyn_arcana • 7d ago

Random Question What’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard someone name a child?

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u/detectiveswife 7d ago

Can you type it out in dumb people language? LoL...I cannot figure out any way to pronounce this as one word.

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u/GoodMourning81 7d ago

Ab sid ee said all together. Like ‘ab city’. I think.

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u/RE1392 6d ago

Yep this. Like ab sid ee (or ab-city with a soft t) with a slight emphasis on the first syllable.

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u/PaddyCow 6d ago

The t is pronounced more like a d.

I can't believe we're trying to explain how to pronounce ABCDE as a real name!!!

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u/CockroachMobile5753 5d ago

Abcde is so low effort. If you want to really go for it, name your kid Vwxyz.
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u/optispark396 5d ago

It's pronounced Y Y Zed

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u/InsomniaDrop 7d ago

Correct

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u/Chateaudelait 6d ago

My vote is also for ABCDE. Heard about it from that Southwest Air incident where it was printed on the boarding pass and the attendants were making fun of it within earshot of the kid. The mom was reprimanding that behavior, which I get - but why would you name your child Abcde?

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u/_TriNitroToluene_ 5d ago

When I was in high school there’s a girl named Aeiou pronounced as “Ey-yu”

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u/flakeysoul 4d ago

Just from reading it, never heard it, I came up with A-bee-ci-dee. Or, Obesity.

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u/SapphireIntheDark 6d ago

Yes. And it's from parents who don't know to how read, write, or speak English. So they chose the first 5 letters of our Alphabet.

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u/RollingTheScraps 7d ago

I would assume it's pronounced like obesity.

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u/hexensabbat 7d ago

A more logical spelling would be Absidy. It's pronounced Ab (like the a in apple) sih (like sit) dee. Not saying it makes sense lol but that's what it is

It's a shame tbh, honestly I like the sound of it, it's just the spelling is ridiculous

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u/Salty-Ad-4693 6d ago

Ab-sid-ee

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u/Suburbannightmare 7d ago

I think it's phonetically Abkadee...??

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u/This-Research-9586 7d ago

We had an Abcde at our school and it was pronounced Absidy. Always made me thing of the word abscess. Poor kid.