In 30+ years of teaching dance, I have seen some truly awful names (including a pair that are on the banned urban legend list, their mom didn't get the joke), but without doubt, the biggest tragedeigh I ever saw was Gha'naye. I spent the weeks before classes started trying to guess how to pronounce her name, but nothing I guessed was even close to right. Her name was Jenny.
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That’s how Forest Gump pronounces it.
Is he smart, or is he... like the people who named you that?
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i raised gha'naye pigs in elementary school.
super cute but they breed like crazy.
My mom was a dance teacher, and some of the parents would get so exasperated whenever she asked how to spell/pronounce their kids’ names.
“No one can ever spell her name!” Ma’am, you named her Emmileigh. I think you’re the one who can’t spell her name.
omg growing up when I danced we had two sisters names Heileigh and Emmeleigh and this comment just game me major flashbacks the younger one Emmeleigh was trying to convert me to evangelical Christianity when I was like 11 in the middle of dance class 😭 wild times
Jesus tap-dancing Christ! Literally!
Funnily enough it was a tap class lmaooo
There's no way Gh is a soft g in English. I was guessing it was meant to be a reference to Ghana. Like, I know someone named Kenya.
Yeah, I thought it was pronounced like guh-nigh-uh or something.
Gh is not and never will be pronounced as J.
Ghislaine would like a word with you.
I don't disagree it should be a hard G but there's always one...
I'd like a word with her
Studio Ghibli is pronounced with a soft g, but it's more of an exception that proves the rule. To my understanding, ghibli comes from Italian, where the h denotes a hard g. But the name of the studio is based on Japanese pronunciation, hence the soft g
Thanks. Just went down a rabbit-hole looking into the precise meaning of "the exception proves the rule." That was fun.
Oh wow. Jenny. I was certain she was named after Ghana, the country.
I thought for sure it was going to be a Kanye/Ghandi remix name
Another student in one of my kids' dance classes was named "Pajama". It was pronounced "PAY juh may". She was a nice girl, it was a little hard to take her seriously. I don't think I ever called her by name. If I passed her in the parking lot, she didn't get a "hi Pajama!". She just got a wave and a good morning or good afternoon or whatever it was.
She should go by PJ. If someone asks what names it's short for they'd be astounded!
Definitely a tragedeigh.
I went straight to "gah - nay"
"Jen-neigh" did not come to my mind. Ever.
Even after a mother says that, I'm not buying.
This is the reason that I always have my students introduce themselves now. Sometimes I make it a game and call role based on other information that I’m sure about
Same. Gah-NAY or something like that.
That is in no way Jenny
I'm telling myself she changed her name to that as an adult as it's just so shit if her parents did that to her.
I really hope so, she was about five when she stopped dancing.
Forest Gump
I have a list just like this at my studio. It makes writing the recital program a total nightmare.
Not tragedeigh's, but the most amusing year was the year I had a Queenie, Princess, Duchess, Contessa, and one more royal name that I can't remember. There were five of them, no siblings, no two in the same class. I didn't even notice it until I had to look at the full studio roster for something; it was bizarre.
There’s a person running for public office in my little town named Na’cole and every time I see the signs I can’t help but think “bless her heart!”
I'd pronounce it like Kanye, but with a G...
I used to enjoy a certain teacher’s reels on Facebook wherein he is learning his students’ names the first day. He also had reels re some interactions with the kids, all high schoolers. Haven’t seen him in awhile and cannot think of his name
I understand at least one Nordic country (Sweden?) has set rules of what baby names can be. It’s very restrictive. New Zealand is not that restrictive but it definitely prevents the use of titles to be used as a name. so, Mr, Duchess, sir, etc are prohibited. Presumably, some academic titles would be prohibited, too.
I think there should be some rules about what you can call your baby lest we end up with a tragedeigh.
All Nordic countries have rules about what names you can use. Iceland is the one with the very strict ones, where the names have to fit with their grammar.
I guessed that it was pronounced Jane, not Jenny. That was something.
The first rule of "what in the tragedeigh?" is to guess "what normal name could this possibly sound like?". You know you have a real tragedeigh when it's not even possible to do that.
That's just mean
That's "gah-nye" or "geh-neigh". There is no "jen-ee".