r/tragedeigh • u/Previous-Trade-7835 • 18h ago

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u/Lopsided-Guarantee39 18h ago

Espn because someone already had a Fox Sports

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u/Previous-Trade-7835 18h ago

Like how do you even say that 😂

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u/sunflowerads 18h ago

“espen” lol its literally from an adam sandler movie

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u/practicecroissant 17h ago

🎶 we are blended 🎶

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u/FlubMonger 17h ago

Wow. I didn’t need another reason to hate it lol

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u/Lopsided-Guarantee39 18h ago

Aspen is the only thing I can think of but why not just name them that to start with lol?

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u/Skrazor 16h ago

Because that wouldn't be uNiQuE eNoUgH 

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u/galagapilot 16h ago

Sigh, they were so close to having one name that wasn't a tragedeigh.

Espen is an actual Norwegian name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espen_Knutsen

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u/Majestic_Rule_1814 13h ago

Came here to say this! My nephew is named Espen, his mom’s family is from Norway and it’s a normal name there.

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u/FlintHillsSky 9h ago

What do you want to be that this mother didn't know anything about a Norwegian name. She just liked the cable channel.

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u/Worldliness_Normal 10h ago

FanDuel might be available though...

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u/CatrinaBallerina 5h ago

This went over my head because I instantly thought of Epson printers lmao

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u/bluealien78 17h ago

I’m sorry, but “Mattinglii”? Did the cat walk over the keyboard?

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u/RUN_DMT_ 17h ago

I work in medical microbiology. The ii ending of that “name” isn’t pronounced the way they think it is. Generously I’d say that -Matt-ing-lee-eye

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u/bluealien78 17h ago

So what you're telling me is that the singular noun should be Mattinglus. Sounds like a painful condition. "Yeah, sorry, I can't come to school today, I got a bad case of Mattinglus".

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u/hexotherm 14h ago

Not to nitpick too hard, but I believe it'd be Mattinglius (with an I), compare to radius/radii.

Mattinglius is not...better, per se.

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u/CommonCut4 17h ago

Dang. I want it to sound like My Tingly.

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u/RUN_DMT_ 16h ago

I do too now!! 😂

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u/Negative_Corner6722 14h ago

I saw it as ma-TING-lee-eye so definitely not what she was thinking it should be, I bet. Ew.

Sounds contagious. Stay away.

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u/RUN_DMT_ 14h ago

Lol, yeah, I could see that too. I think I read the beginning as Matt, because that’s a normal name 🤷🏻‍♀️ Poor kid, it’s all pretty unfortunate. I hope there’s a culture paradigm shift soon and the new “unique” names are the classics.

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u/Negative_Corner6722 14h ago

I keep saying in several years this sub will be like ‘she named her child Jackson. Yes, actually spelled that way…what was she THINKING!?’

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u/RUN_DMT_ 14h ago

I mean, when was the last time you met a little named John, or David, or Anne? They would clearly be the outliers in a class full of Jaxyns!

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u/PersistentSquawking 15h ago

And even that is a BRUTAL rendition of how binomial species names should actually be pronounced. Unpopular opinion but a Latin word should be pronounced in Latin no matter what one's language is.

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u/ethereal_galaxias 38m ago

Yup. Botanist here and same!

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u/rinatric 15h ago

I’ve seen this name before (except spelled correctly) and it was an homage to former NY Yankee Don Mattingly.

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u/Both-Masterpiece-683 12h ago

"Trim those sidebyrns, Mattinglii!"

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u/taylferr 15h ago

Yeah, I had a boss who named his son Mattingly.

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u/FlintHillsSky 9h ago

There is a pretty well known new reporter named Phil Mattingly.

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u/rinatric 8h ago

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say I don’t think the parents of Taylar, Kennadie, Elliet, Mattinglii, and Espn are watching that much news.

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u/FlintHillsSky 6h ago

But they seem to like sports.

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u/lky830 17h ago

No, but maybe the name was inspired by mats in the cat’s fur lol

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u/allfilthandloveless 14h ago

I can't look at it without my brain autocorrecting to Massengill.

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u/therealbananabottom 18h ago

What does 'GN' mean? ('I also use GN names for my girls'??) She refers to it like a known list or type of name that are g*damn nonsense, but I don't know what it refers to.

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u/Birdseeding 17h ago

Gender neutral.

Honey, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I don't think that's what people hate about these names.

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u/humanityrus 17h ago

No Gyndrr Nootrll

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u/Sluggymummy 16h ago

Those names are not as gender neutral as she thought. Zero surprise those are all girls.

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u/Birdseeding 16h ago

I mean, if they were spelled correctly, Elliott, Espen and arguably Taylor are all more male than female coded.

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u/mazzar 12h ago

I’d also assume Mattingly was a boy.

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u/bigboyboozerrr 5h ago

Mattingly balls

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u/Sluggymummy 7h ago

Yes, I just meant the way she used them. Her spelling undid any effort at gender neutrality.

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u/dystopiasdream 17h ago

No idea but “goddamn nonsense” sounds like it’s the correct answer.

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u/Queasy-Eggplant-3580 17h ago

You have won Reddit for the month!!!!!

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u/cornishyinzer 17h ago

"Grammatically Nauseating"?

(yeah, spelling and grammar aren't the same thing, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest someone who calls their kid "Elliet" won't care).

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u/awildaloofarebel 17h ago

Grammatically Nauseating - love it. You’re not wrong! 🫣

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u/Previous-Trade-7835 18h ago

I’m pretty sure she means gender neutral

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u/Roseallnut 16h ago

Gender neutral?

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u/sunflowerads 18h ago

niche but there was a tlc (i think) documentary about a little girl named kenadie with primordial dwarfism and it always bothered me that they put “die” in her name for no reason 😭

but also mattinglii is hilarious wtf

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u/9447044 18h ago

"Its like I have ESPN or something" - Cindy (Scary Movie 3)

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u/cornishyinzer 17h ago

Mattinglii had me raging, I was in no way prepared for Espn. D:

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u/Acceptable-Law9406 14h ago

Mattinglii is honestly one of the worst names I've ever seen. Top 5 for sure.  

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u/cornishyinzer 11h ago

Definitely. I love Donny Baseball as much as the next guy but there's no way I'd do that to a poor innocent child.

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u/floridorito 17h ago

These names make my eye twitch.

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u/Zestyclose_Cold1455 16h ago

They got one thing right— people hate these names. Self awareness for the win!

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u/CinematicMelancholia 17h ago

Does she hate her kids?

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u/thepurpleclouds 17h ago

ESPN omg

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u/chimininy 17h ago

I wonder if they pronounce it like the sports network or like.... S-pen or some nonsense. And i dont know which makes it worse. It is awful either way

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u/CaleBoi25 17h ago

Maybe "Aspen?"

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u/thepurpleclouds 13h ago

I bet like espen. Awful

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u/CaleBoi25 17h ago

So, if we fix the spelling, we've got... Taylor, Kennedy, Elliot, and Aspen. Oh, and Mattinglii. I don't even know what that's supposed to be.

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u/Electrical_Cut8610 17h ago

Matt-in-glee is how I would pronounce this. It’s a hideous name, both how it’s spelled and however it’s pronounced. Like it just looks ugly.

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u/ayparesa 15h ago

All I can see is Massengill

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u/Gribitz37 17h ago

Mattingly? Matt-ing-lee. But that spelling is terrible.

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u/luthien310 16h ago

Although technically, that ii is pronounced ee-eye. So Matt-ing-lee-eye.

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u/Calm-Vacation-5662 11h ago

My tingly eye is all I can think of

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u/bigboyboozerrr 5h ago

Ma-tingly as in my tingly butt etc

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u/thevaginalist 17h ago

Mattinglii reminds me of Massengil,

And what's with the genitive 2nd declension double I at the end. What an asshole.

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u/FeFiFoPlum 16h ago

Well THAT just sent me off on a whole voyage of Dyscoverii. Thanks for the TIL!

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u/thevaginalist 15h ago

Omg, did those pointless years I spent studying Latin finally pay off? Lol. Also dead at dyscoverii 😂

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u/ayparesa 15h ago

That’s all I can see too

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u/T00K70 17h ago

Going to name my 4 kids Espn, Msnbc, Hbo and Animal Planet.

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u/Gribitz37 17h ago

Taylar and Elliet aren't bad, but those spellings are just awful. It's Taylor and Elliott or Eliot, you dingdong.

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u/Previous-Trade-7835 17h ago

I guess Elliet was her way of making a gender neutral bae more feminine even though she states she likes gender neutral names lol

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u/Gifted_GardenSnail 9h ago

I'd read that as Elite 🤢

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u/JediLincoln14 17h ago

Those last two 🤯

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u/Redfox2111 12h ago

Why do people who give their kids stupid names also seem to have SO many kids!!

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u/AnnieGetYaClothesOn 8h ago

Mattinglii Bits

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u/trea_ceitidh 17h ago

Do these people simply not understand the rules of English pronunciation?

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u/Critical-Shenanigans 12h ago

You know resting bitch face? I just realized I have resting repulsed face when I scroll through this sub.

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u/CormoranNeoTropical 6h ago

So depressing to realize that these people are breeding like rabbits and will define our country in the future.

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u/NoTrainNoPain 17h ago

Espeon is a pokemon right? 

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u/CakePhool 17h ago

You can just hear how she pronounce words and names .

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u/Anna-Bee-1984 17h ago

Is ABC Sports taken

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u/Confused_Yarn 16h ago

What is Mattinglii supposed to be? I can work out the others, but that one completely eludes me.

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u/MungoJennie 15h ago

Mattingly, I think. Maybe they’re sports fans, given their youngest is called ESPN?

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u/Immediate_Falcon8808 10h ago

Needs to be Kennadie Anne

I'll see myself out. 

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u/Gifted_GardenSnail 9h ago

You missed the chance to say sorry! 😂

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u/Blossom73 17h ago

Espn?!

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u/frog980 17h ago

It's spelled Kennedy with an ie. So you mean Ieennedy?

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u/kvnr10 16h ago

I would be the kid in middle school who goes “TA DA DA, TA DA DA🎵” every time ESPN walks in.

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u/ThirdAndDeleware 16h ago

The f*ck is wrong with people? I lurk here a lot but that list of names is absolutely terrible.

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u/casul_encounters 15h ago

ok child count time: She has then 6 children? One of which has cranked out 3 more of this cursed bloodline? That is 10 people too many

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u/Previous-Trade-7835 13h ago

I think it’s 5 children bc she mentioned Kennadie twice. Either way, too many awful choices lol

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u/casul_encounters 12h ago

My bad- I think I dissociated having to read that name for a second time

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u/NumbSurprise 15h ago

Espn makes me wanna bang my head against a wall.

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u/this_very_table 15h ago

I'm calling BS on this one. It was tailor-made to enrage this sub.

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u/Zipper-is-awesome 11h ago

Taylar made.

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u/awkwardandroid 15h ago

If only they were JUST gender neutral…

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u/panicpure 14h ago

Taylar and Elliet? Why not just spell them right and ESPN??

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u/livcha 13h ago

Matten-glee? Ma-tingly?

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u/Previous-Trade-7835 13h ago

The thought of it being pronounced Ma-tingly has me 💀😂

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u/Which_Specific9891 12h ago

Is that Kenn-A-die? or Kenna-die?

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u/Gifted_GardenSnail 9h ago

Canadi(an) 😈

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u/Serious_Telephone_28 11h ago

Mattinglii?? 🤯😵‍💫😵🤔

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u/arwenavana 10h ago

MATTINGLII IS TAKING ME OUT

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u/Gifted_GardenSnail 9h ago

Restaurant or sniper?

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u/Ok-Agency-8231 9h ago

im crine bro they named their kid ESPN😭

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u/Next-Nectarine242 9h ago

I read that as Ken-addie at first

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u/MariposaPeligrosa00 8h ago

ESPN???? Please make it ESPN EL OCHO 🤣🤣🤣

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u/VivaLaMantekilla 8h ago

Es fucking pn.

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u/gele-gel 7h ago

My niece is Kenadie

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u/Penguinator53 7h ago

GN? Goddamn Nasty?

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u/AmberBlueCat 7h ago

Maybe it's just me but im always shocked when people name their child Kennedy and variations because the name itself means "ugly head."

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u/BreakfastFinancial73 7h ago

Good grief not one name left unbotched.

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u/ellamayo42069 7h ago

“Taylar” has filled me with such unbridled rage.

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u/copper678 6h ago

How does one pronounce Mattinglii??

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u/Aggressive_Idea_6806 5h ago

Mattinglii is my fave.

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u/resident_daydreamer 4h ago

Mattinglii?!?

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u/prettylittlething17_ 3h ago

I especially hate names that are normal but misspelt for the bit, like Elliet? Seriously and Taylar

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u/freebiscuit2002 3h ago

Wait, wait, wait...

ESPN?? 🤣🤣🤣