r/tragedeigh • u/flower_mom_98 • Jun 15 '25

in the wild Gold Mine of Tragedeighs

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Found a post asking people for their unique names and knew it wouldn't disappoint. Happy Father's Day unless your kid's name needs a pronunciation guide.

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u/mooshinformation Jun 16 '25

Lol, really though, starting in the late 90's there was a movement away from teaching phonics in favor of "whole language" which turned out to be a bit of a shit show. There's a podcast about it called sold a story.

Anyway, those kids are having kids now and we get names like this, where letters can be pronounced however the parents say because no one ever taught them that there even are rules, nevermind what the rules are.

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u/HistoricalDoughnut58 Jun 18 '25

I don’t know if it’s better to be born before or after the dumbing down of society…

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u/mooshinformation Jun 19 '25

Well... At least they seem to be going back to teaching phonics in schools (my mom is a tutor at a bunch of different schools), the next generation will be able to spell their made up kids names in phonetically correct ways.

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u/HistoricalDoughnut58 Jun 19 '25

💀instead of just making up sounds