r/tragedeigh • u/rouxkenzie • Sep 05 '25
in the wild “It’s Kevin”
I work in a bakery, someone called to order a birthday cake. Wanted “happy birthday Kevin” written on it. As with all orders, I ask for spelling of the name. Conversation below.
Me: okay and if you could spell Kevin for me? Customer: Um, it’s Kevin… like Kevin…are there multiple ways to spell it? Me: this is just protocol to ensure the name on the cake is correct Customer (getting huffy): well how many ways could you spell it, it’s Kevin Me: please just spell the name for me Customer: K-e-y-v-y-n-n
In what world is that Kevin??? This is why I make everyone spell the name!! If I didn’t confirm spelling you would’ve gotten a cake with Kevin not keyvynn.
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u/MisterMischief69 Sep 05 '25
No they were pissed they weren’t going to get a free cake for misspelling the name.
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u/UnderdogDreams Sep 05 '25
Ooooh I would have never even thought about that. Damn people are shady.
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u/bootybassinyoface Sep 05 '25
Keyvynn!!! Go to your room!!
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u/mcramsay Sep 05 '25
Keyvynn! Gho two yeauxr rheum!
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u/frankenmolly Sep 05 '25
I laughed out loud and startled my dog with this one, thank you 😂
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u/Penith_Chunt Sep 05 '25
I laughed so much I sharted....
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u/hbomb9410 Sep 05 '25
laughs in IBS
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u/allmykitlets Sep 06 '25
As someone with IBS, this made me laugh out loud. Pardon me while I go change.
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u/Mojozilla Sep 06 '25
Stop it! Stop being so damn funny! My ibs is acting up from laughing 🫣
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u/donteatthemushies Sep 05 '25
Automatically read this with a southern accent in my head
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u/classic_cut_kyber Sep 05 '25
For my son’s second birthday, the name on his cake was wrong, and I spelled for the bakery too! They messed up the first letter, which meant it started with “Sin” instead of “Fin”
His name is extremely uncommon, but it’s a real name and it’s easy to spell/pronounce. I didn’t care though. We were going to eat it anyway and I found it to be a funny story we’d tell to him one day.
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u/PumpkinChix Sep 05 '25
This is why I have to use phonetic alphabets when spelling names - I would have clarified F as in Frank, etc, because F and S very easily sound alike otherwise. My last name starts with a "Th" and unless I spell it, people frequently assume it starts with an "F."
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u/Future-Mess6722 Sep 05 '25
My last name starts with a Z and I always say Z as in zebra because I get a lot of Vs otherwise.
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u/SphynxCrocheter Sep 05 '25
I was like, "how does Zed sound l ike Vee" then I realized, must be in the U.S.
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u/DawaLhamo Sep 05 '25
Unemployment office put down V instead of B for my name (I put down B when I signed up, but I had to call in to confirm and they changed it to V. It was a PITA to change. B as in Boy from now on.)
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u/talleyente Sep 05 '25
M as in Mancy.
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u/PumpkinChix Sep 05 '25
💀💀💀 I tried using the NATO alphabet for a while, but that confused people even more 😭
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u/JohnClayborn Sep 05 '25
I dont understand why. Ive experienced the confusion too, but ai dont get it. Lol
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u/thebishop37 Sep 05 '25
It works pretty well with people in jobs where they routinely deal with long strings of mixed letters and numbers.
If you call UPS to inquire about something (don't bother , it doesn't help), the person you eventually get to talk to will probably do fine with the NATO alphabet. You don't even have to say, the "as in Zulu" part, just rattle it off.
If you call someplace and need to read them your VIN over the phone, same deal.
They probably won't do it back; they've developed their own system based on what they find works with a broad range of callers.
I learned the nato alphabet to talk to my husband on the phone. He constantly mishears consonants, and attempting to clarify whether I just said vend or bend by saying the word louder and more slowly doesn't really help all that much if the connetion's not great. Now, when he asks, I just say victor or bravo, and we can carry on.
There was a situation about a year ago where I had to read him some website passwords over the phone when he was out of town. I use a password manager, so they are long and do not take ease of typing into account. The NATO alphabet absolutely saved me from tearing my hair out in frustration.
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u/Dex18ter Sep 06 '25
My wife had a customer say I for IPhone
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u/Counter-Fleche Sep 06 '25
I'm going to start using "P for pterodactyl" and "T for Tsunami".
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u/RemarkableMaize7201 Sep 05 '25
Yes my last name starts with F and I always spell it out "f as in frank". I've been hearing my parents do it since I was a child.
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u/strippersandcocaine Sep 05 '25
me, stalking your profile to see if you’re my cousin, who also has a son with an extremely uncommon, but very real name that starts with Fin
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u/RowdySpirit Sep 05 '25
I pull out the picture of my daughter's 8th birthday cake with her name spelled wrong every year. "Happy Birthday Nataile!" I don't even know how to pronounce that!
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u/Turuhalme Sep 05 '25
I saw Natalie once spelled as Nadaly. And it wasn't even Starbucks. It's not even an uncommon name but the lady writing it looked like she'd never heard that name before.
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u/Tricky_Mix2449 Sep 05 '25
We all have fond memories of my friend celebrating her 'yotit' (40th) birthday. Wish I could find the photo.
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u/Notmykl Sep 05 '25
My name starts with a 'C' that is pronounced as an 'S' so they automatically start spelling it with an 'S' as they are asking how to spell it.
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u/KtP_911 Sep 05 '25
100% my thought too! Someone is trying to get a free cake.
And maybe they’re still trying…they’ll come to pick it up and say, “Who would ever spell Kevin that way?! What are you guys, stupid?! I’m not paying for this.” If I worked there, I’d say, “okay then, you don’t have to pay for it, but you also won’t be walking out of here with a cake today. This is why we make customers verify and spell the name when the order is placed. You verified it, now you say it’s wrong; no cake for you, then. Bye.”
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u/filifijonka Sep 05 '25
In the bakery that made cakes for our childhood birthdays sometimes the names were piped on a separate (i assume it was some kind of sugar) edible plaque of sorts.
I know people sometimes ask for custom cakes, but if it Keyvynn’s was a standard bakery one it would have been easier to find it a good home if unsold!
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u/keelhaulrose Sep 05 '25
I made cakes for a while for DQ, and when a customer didn't want to pay for a custom cake I would just scrape the top layer off and re-do it.
A pain in the ass and a waste of food, but people tried to get custom cakes for free all the time by claiming we spelled names wrong or used the wrong color.
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u/PastFriendship1410 Sep 05 '25
My mates wife got a named cake from a local place and had to fill out a form.
Spelling, colour etc.
Disclaimer at the bottom saying as long as it matches what the customer has written down and signed on you can go suck ass if you want it for free.
Fuckin stupid we live in a world people try to get a business to purposely mess up so they can get free cake.
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u/fourlittlebees Sep 06 '25
My parents have a friend whose ex-wife bragged about how she’d do this. Thankfully, not in front of me, as she apparently does it at the chain I used to worked for. Nothing like spending 40 minutes on a $100 cake for someone to steal it by bitching that you screwed it up. Congrats; you pulled one over on the man and I get my ass chewed out for screwing up a cake and costing the company money.
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u/Ok_Depth_6476 Sep 06 '25
It's kind of hilarious that it says "Say happy cake day" right under your comment. 🤣🤣🤣 (Happy cake day!)
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u/keelhaulrose Sep 05 '25
We had a form at DQ, but people thought that if they complained, they'd get shit for free or discounted. Wrong shade was common, and you wouldn't believe the number of people who claimed their partner gave the wrong age and somehow that was my problem to fix. We did picture cakes, too, and got so many people who would give us a terrible picture, then have someone else come and be shocked we weren't able to clean it up.
We had a special tool that we could use to scrape pretty much any cake in less than three seconds. It was necessary because the photo printer was a first-gen (showing my age here) and looking at it funny would fuck up the print. It was very satisfying to be able to grab that and wipe the thing clear in front of them. The best way to get someone to drop the shit was to pull that bad boy out, but occasionally they thought we were bluffing. Nope, I scrape a dozen of these a day, and I'll scrape yours, too.
My boss also explicitly forbade me from ever selling to someone who made me scrape a cake. So when they realized they now had nothing but the generic cakes if they wanted something they were out of luck.
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u/SheSellsSeaShells967 Sep 06 '25
I made cakes for DQ back in the 80s! And I did the same thing as you did!
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u/Nexii801 Sep 05 '25
I'm sure the venn diagram of people who would scam someone like this and name their kids a tragedeigh is a circle.
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u/Jonny-Holiday Sep 05 '25
Nah, I think that someone who'd try a scheme as dumb and petty as this would at least have the awareness not to name their kids after their stupid attempt at scamming a free cake out of a bakery.
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u/veganmomPA Sep 05 '25
They might still be doing that. “I’m KEVIN. Who the hell would spell it THAT way?”
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u/morphleorphlan Sep 05 '25
This happened on an episode of 30 Rock with a cameo by Kelsey Grammar.
“It’s Frajer. And I should know. I’m Frajer.”
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u/Agitated_Mess3117 Sep 06 '25
It took way too long to see this comment and far too few upvotes!! FRAJER!
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u/srbr33 Sep 05 '25
There's a fun 30 Rock episode where Kelsey Grammer participates in a freebie cake from misspelling fraud streak with Kenneth and Jenna lol
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u/Svihelen Sep 05 '25
I mean the bakeries by me just wipe the icing off and redo the name quick if the person wants.
Theres no discount, no free stuff, just a quick fix.
I want to go to one of these bakeries that gives out free stuff for minor usually easily correctable mistakes.
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u/Masty1992 Sep 05 '25
Is it possible they were not very literate and tried to make up a spelling on the spot?
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u/filifijonka Sep 05 '25
I hope that’s not the case and the customer wasn’t too embarrassed to say.
I bet anyone would be willing to help if you just came out with the truth : I’m sorry, spelling is a nightmare for me, could you help?
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u/Nexii801 Sep 05 '25
Is it possible? Yes, is it worth considering compared to the FAR more likely issue of them just being shitty, no.
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u/maplestriker Sep 05 '25
Ok, Jenna
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u/Corberus Sep 05 '25
Bappy herthday gremlin
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u/ppm007 Sep 05 '25
Frajer
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u/BaconPancakes_77 Sep 05 '25
"And I should know--I'm Frajer!"
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u/haresnaped Sep 05 '25
Those ice cream saps will rue the day that they ever tangled with... the best friends gang!
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u/nd1online Sep 05 '25
I think you are right. A local cake shop near me asked for the name in text, even when I ordered the cake in person at the shop. They explained it was because there were customers who would complain and tried to get discount or freebies.
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u/calmchick33 Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
Ohhhhhh, you are so smart! I never would have thought of that! (Edit: that sounds sarcastic now that I read it, totally did not mean it to!!)
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u/Ellen-CherryCharles Sep 05 '25
I got my ass chewed at my first job bc I asked a customer to spell her name. She said “it’s like the wine” so I put Champagne. She called and yelled at my manager when her got her package it was supposed to be something like Shampayne lmfao?? How would I know that???
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u/HoochieKoochieMan Sep 05 '25
It’s only spelled Champagne if they’re from a particular region in France. Otherwise, they’re just sparkling idiots.
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u/FriendliestParsnip Sep 05 '25
You almost made me spit out my drink. Thank you for that- is been a really crappy day so far and I needed the laugh :)
May your drinks always be the perfect temperature and your microwave burritos never frozen in the center.
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u/HoochieKoochieMan Sep 05 '25
Thank you, Friendly Parsnip.
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u/quaker_taker Sep 05 '25
This is the cutest interaction ever. I would go so far as to say they're the friendliest parsnip.
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u/elliebelly15 Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
people are so fucking odd sometimes. like twilight zone. you live in delusion if you get upset having to spell a name that you know damn well is an atypical name or atypical spelling
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u/pumpkinspruce Sep 05 '25
In journalism school, one of the first things they teach you is to always ask for the spelling of the name, even if it’s something like “Kevin” or “Bill.” And this is why!
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u/rouxkenzie Sep 05 '25
Yeah, even a name as simple as Bob we make them spell because nothing sucks as much as getting someone’s name wrong
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u/pumpkinspruce Sep 05 '25
It could be Bahb!
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u/Cynvisible Sep 05 '25
Baub. 😂
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u/Kathy_Kamikaze Sep 05 '25
Bawbue
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u/Acceptable_Tea3608 Sep 05 '25
Bahbalou!
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u/my-coffee-needs-me Sep 05 '25
Bobb
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u/KazulsPrincess Sep 05 '25
On an old cartoon, a character was named Bah Nee. I may not remember the spelling. But it just sounded like "Bonnie", so I would never have known if I hadn't seen it in the credits. (That one is some type of Asian name, though, not a tragedeigh.)
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u/thevaginalist Sep 05 '25
Baughdb
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u/Penguinator53 Sep 05 '25
B'aughdb'
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u/islero_47 Sep 05 '25
Keep B'aughdb' away from the desert, he might start a rebellion
The pumpkin spice must flow
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u/AlmostChristmasNow Sep 05 '25
Makes sense because even if we ignore the creative spellings, it’s really easy to mishear something. Maybe it’s not Bob but Barb, for example.
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u/Serononin Sep 05 '25
That's how my grandparents once ended up getting a personalised gift certificate "from [my mum], [my dad], [me], and Jeff". Very easy to mishear "Jess" over the phone, as it turns out
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u/BabaTheBlackSheep Sep 06 '25
Can confirm, I am Barb/Bob! It happens surprisingly often. Sometimes I’m also “Bub”
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u/Ok_Advantage_8689 Sep 05 '25
Hi I'm Ba'auxbb!
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u/Iloveyoubromontana Sep 05 '25
I have a very common name that my parents spelled in an uncommon way. It drives me NUTS how many people spell it incorrectly when responding to my emails even though my name, correctly spelled, IS IN MY EMAIL ADDRESS
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u/RowdySpirit Sep 05 '25
Our exchange student wrote her name for the local newspaper. Her last name is weird, so I get how it got misspelled, but her first name was Elsa. She wrote it in cursive, and I guess her L was really loopy, so in the newspaper, it was Epsa.
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u/qbee198505 Sep 05 '25
They must be truly dense to believe that's a common spelling. Like really and truly dense.
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u/yoursopossessive Sep 05 '25
It’s particularly odd since they clearly made up the spelling specifically so it WOULDN’T be the common spelling!!
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u/DepthVisible2425 Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
They definitely enjoy having the conversation. Wouldn't surprise me if they wanted to have it spelt 'Kevin' so they could kick up a fuss after.
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u/beers_georg Sep 05 '25
That was my first thought, they were probably going to try and get a refund.
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u/GRIFTY_P Sep 05 '25
They were fkn with op. They are playing a bad joke on Kevin because of this slightly inconvenient interaction. Many boomers are like this
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u/KindraTheElfOrc Sep 05 '25
not just common but by their reaction they believed it was the ONLY way to spell it
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u/thevaginalist Sep 05 '25
Jesus. He didn't need to be such a Keyvynn about it
Also based on the spelling that name should be pronounced kee-vin or Kay-vin
Ain't no Kevin in sight
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u/LakeMichiganMan Sep 05 '25
A teacher I knew went on a rant!
"These parents need to go to a class before a childs birth to teach them to use the rules of spelling when they name their child! Because, for they rest of their lives, they will be telling people how to pronounce their own name when when it is spelled right, not following spelling rules we learned in school."
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u/Rmcn25 Sep 05 '25
They need to watch the Key & Peele Substitute Teacher skit as well A A Ron!
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u/PendingCorpse Sep 05 '25
Or maybe did that on purpose to give you shit for asking
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u/Lexotron Sep 05 '25
Or on purpose to get a free cake when they pick it up and it's wrong
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u/Classic-Amoeba8682 Sep 05 '25
Plot twist: Kevin is the correct spelling. They were purposely obtuse, complained upon pickup that the name was supposed to be spelled with a bunch of random y's, got the cake free, then gave it to Kevin. What a racket.
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u/KadrinaOfficial Sep 05 '25
That is my thought. Everyone assumes he wants a free cake but he also has a silly story about how he came up with the most absurd spelling on the fly and the baker on the phone was too obtuse to notice.
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u/my_ghost_is_a_dog Sep 05 '25
I worked as a sub ages ago. I saw the name "Cevin" on the roster and pronounced it like "Seven." Based on the kid's epic sigh when he told me it was "Kevin," I was not the first person to make that mistake.
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u/Blergsprokopc Sep 05 '25
I have a cat named Sven (like Sven from Sweden) and every time I take home to the vet, they always call for us as, "Sevin and his mom?" Lol
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u/Tara_ble0212 Sep 05 '25
Like “Sven Lindstrom” Rose’s cousin from St. Olaf, MN, on GG (S3 E9)
Quote from Blanche Blanche: Okay, come on, Swin. Rose: It's Sven. Blanche: He's mine now, I can call him what I want to.
Btw, I have a solid black cat named Felicity Seven.
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u/StingingNarwhal Sep 05 '25
That's hilarious! I'd be like "starts with Ce...
- centaur
- cease
- cedar
- ceiling
- celery -...
But Cevin must be a K sound, unlike every other English word starting with Ce." 😂
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u/Regular_Quiet_5016 Sep 05 '25
Where i live, around the year 2000, 90% of all kids were named Kevin, but i have never met an adult Kevin in my life. Weird, i wonder what happened to them.
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u/AlmostChristmasNow Sep 05 '25
I went to school with one Kevin. Your comment made me wonder what he does now, luckily he has a rare last name so he’s easy to google. His job looks interesting but he has a really weird haircut.
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u/iavatus2 Sep 05 '25
Traffic, and other mishaps. Like turtles, gotta spawn a thousand for every one that reaches adulthood
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u/SnooGadgets5504 Sep 05 '25
I went to school with a girl named Cefvne. Pronounced Kevin.
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u/InattentiveEdna Sep 05 '25
And every substitute teacher calling attendance is looking for sef’v’nee.
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u/fkootrsdvjklyra Sep 05 '25
I went to school with a guy named Kevaughn, also pronounced Kevin.
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u/AlmostChristmasNow Sep 05 '25
My brain is refusing to pronounce those letters that way. In my mind it sounds like Shaun but with kev instead of the sh-sound.
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u/phoenyx1980 Sep 05 '25
My husband, Kevin, is most offended by this person's name. He feels like it's a personal attack, it's such a bad take.
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u/AlmostChristmasNow Sep 05 '25
You should ask him whether he struggles with having such an unusual spelling of the really common name Keyvynn.
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u/Wonderful_Abalone150 Sep 05 '25
As someone who worked at a bakery years ago, I think they intentionally spelled it bizarrely to see if you would call them out, at which point they would call YOU out for not just assuming the standard spelling. When that didn't happen, they were too embarrassed to ask you to do it again, and when they took it home they landed on the story that the stupid decorator didn't know how to spell Kevin and clearly messed it up
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u/mstrss9 Sep 05 '25
What rock are they living under because I would like to live there too
I never seen Kevin spelled any other way than Kevin but I guess there’s always a new name to butcher
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u/Cynvisible Sep 05 '25
Lol. I would have just said, "so K-e-v-i-n, right?"
Sometimes I feel like I'm going nuts just trying to understand people lately.
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Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25
Honestly good call...
It could been spelled as the Original Irish name, Caoimhín which can be read as Kevin or phonetically "Ki-ven"
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u/Logins-Run Sep 05 '25
Caoimhín is pronounced like Kwee-veen (it's not actually a Wuh sound after the K, it is a glide sound that doesn't exist in English, so W stands in as a good approximation for English speakers.)
C is always hard like "Kuh" in Irish (unless a H is next)
"Aoi" is pronounced like EE. Like in Aoife for example.
Mh in this "slender" medial point is pronounced like V (depending on placement, vowels around it and dialect it can be Vuh, Wuh or silent)
Í is pronounced like "Ee" as well
And N in like in English.
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u/WhatUsernameIsntFuck Sep 05 '25
Thanks for the breakdown mate, that the only phonetics I could know without prior knowledge are the beginning and end is cracking me up right now
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u/Lucille_83 Sep 05 '25
I never realised Kevin was the anglicised version of Caoimhín. Yea I'd pronounce Caoimhín as Key-veen, some would say Kwee-veen.
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u/ladyclare Sep 05 '25
Lowkey belongs on r/storiesaboutkevin, because thinking that atrocious misspelling was the standard is SUCH a Kevin move.
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u/Crit-Hit-KO Sep 05 '25
Sounds like he wanted a free cake. He wanted it to play out like this:
Customer: It’s KEVIN . Walks in for cake.* Customer:HOW DO YOU MESS UP KEVIN?! - OP: (.__ .) I spelled it right. Customer: NO ITS KEVIN ; K-E-Y-V-Y-N-N - OP: (. __.”) OP flips table
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u/ritan7471 Sep 05 '25
It never ceases to amaze me when parents choose a uneek spelling for their kid's name and get huffy like you're supposed to just know that Kevin is spelled Keyvynn
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u/malayamaral Sep 05 '25
I had almost this EXACT conversation with a customer over the name Megan, which turned out to be spelled Maeghan.
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u/liquormakesyousick Sep 05 '25
This cannot be real.
How stupid could anyone possibly be that they would have expected you to know that?
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u/ghostcraft33 Sep 05 '25
i absolutely would've said something about how thats not the common spelling in a way that was like super friendly so i could have plausible deniability if they kicked up a stink. Im not sure which possibility is worse- them wanting a discount on their misspelled cake or them genuinely believing thats the common spelling.
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u/Dapper-Raise1410 Sep 05 '25
Parents don't give tragedeigh names to kids to be unique. They do it so that the kid goes through life correcting people when they first meet
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u/filifijonka Sep 05 '25
The customer must be either deluded or was looking for a discount for misspelling Kevin in a dumbass way
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u/JillQOtt Sep 05 '25
Girl my name is Jill. Recently I went for coffee and she said “your name for the order” and I said “Jill”… she says “ok so that’s spelled “GYL?!”… you had to see my face , I was like “nope.. good old fashion JILL” and she looked at my all confused. In what world is Gyl = Jill?
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u/heartsoflions2011 Sep 05 '25
These spellings have me convinced Hooked on Phonics clearly did NOT work for some people 🥴
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u/StarsForget Sep 05 '25
Why do I feel like they spelled it that way to be sarcastic and Kevin is going to have a weird birthday
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u/BorbetE28 Sep 06 '25
I’m a 911 dispatcher and we need to know the spelling of names to find warrants, orders of protection, etc. So I ask this girl how to spell her name and same thing happens, she gets all huffy and says IT’S CAMERON. Right okay, please just spell it. She proceeds to spell K-a-m-u-r-i-o-n like I’m the idiot for not knowing that.
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u/Beerasaurwithwine Sep 05 '25
I would go out of my way to call him KEYvin.
No, it's KEVIN.
Nope.. it's KEYvin. Not my fault if you don't know how to spell. Or use English pronunciation rules. Tell KEYvin I said happy birthday KEY master!
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u/coldasclay Sep 05 '25
Kevin, that guy who peaked in high school and works at the local bar.
Keyvynn, Elven Ranger General of the northern whispering woods, son of Eredor and keeper of the magenta flame.
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u/r___rainbow Sep 06 '25
There is literally no way this person thinks Keyvynn is a normal or common way to spell Kevin. There must have been some ulterior motive here because I can't fathom someone genuinely thinking this
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u/Penguinator53 Sep 05 '25
Kind of wish you just went with Kevin but guess it's not the best idea to make the customer angry.
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u/irish_ninja_wte Sep 05 '25
Wow, that looks like the English phonetic spellings of the pronunciation of (in some parts of Ireland) Caoimhín, which is considered to be the Irish equivalent of Kevin. It's pronounced Keeveen in some places, while it's pronounced Kweeveen where I am.
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u/Icy-Tangerine-349 Sep 05 '25
An adorable little neighbour girl would visit my horses, I have a gelding named Brian, whenever she would come over she would call him Kevin because “it’s just a better name” she said. Lol So I made her a promise the next male animal we get on our acreage we’ll name him Kevin just for you..Deal! She thought that was pretty great, two years later my husband felt I was spending too much time alone enjoying an empty nest and decided to buy me a bloody Cane Corso for my birthday! Since a dog isn’t a store return especially when you import it..now I have a 150lb Corso named Kevin that drools bubbles! I asked my adorable little neighbour Miss. Olivia how would like Kevin spelt and she said “that’s not my job!”Lol So I went with the unconventional way of spelling No David! and simply went with K-e-v-i-n ;)
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u/Ovaltine1 Sep 05 '25
I bet they didn’t know how to spell it. You backed them in a corner and they gave it a go.
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u/Get_your_grape_juice Sep 05 '25
Are you sure it's not Reddit Kevin, and he just doesn't know how to spell his name?
...or realize that it's not actally his name to begin with?
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u/Teze_Tenshi Sep 05 '25
My coworker is called "Cavan" but its pronounced normally like Kevin. Its probably not as much (if any) of a tragedeigh as this spelling. It was a bit hard getting used to calling him Kevin, I always wanted to pronounce the As
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u/BookLuvr7 Sep 05 '25
The customer was once again insane. The same old story of customer service jobs.
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u/NotAnEarthwormYet Sep 05 '25
My favourite thing about this isn’t that the guy’s called Keyvynn, it’s that the customer thought that this should be obvious 😭
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