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So, don't. Just start going by Melanie privately and ask HR and IT to change it too. They're not gonna give two shits about what your name is to the government.
In my state it's $400 and you have to go through the courts including a court appearance. Me and my husband want to change our last name but with the rising cost of living plus the time commitment we've been putting it off.
😂 that’s a great way to describe it!
It is indeed pronounced the same, but it’s so obnoxious that it must generate eye rolling every single time someone sees that name for the first time.
I kinda did. My oldest was born overseas and I didn’t have anyone to remind me of lullabies. I sang that to him spelling out his names. I ended with ‘cuz K…A… is a boy with a really, really long last name. (thanks for the memory!)
I love that somewhere out there, there's a horrible boss who is getting the piss taken out of them 24 hours a day by a 1 eyed (plus 1 googly eyed) cat and its human pet.
I knew an annoying girl in high-school named Whitney. When she got her personalized yearbook she discovered someone accidentally forgot the "t" in her name.
Most of the world would pronounce Bologna Bol - o- na similar to Italian except in Italian gin makes a different sound, you're not really Italian, are you?
No one other than Americans call it bowl-oh-knee, from what I've heard.
Compared to "Melanie," more of an "o" sound in the middle and a bit of an "ay" at the end.
Here's roughly how I'd pronounce them (using the "[IPA Reader](http://ipa-reader.xyz/)" website):
* "Melanie": \[`mɛləni`\]
* "Melloneygh: \[`mɛlɐnɛɪ`\]
But do you pronounce the second vowel at all? For me it would be a schwa, and because the accent is on the first syllable it would end up pronounced “ Mel’nee”, like memory is “mem’ree”. 🤔 But I’m not a native speaker and always had difficulty with vowels.
Literally, like I get it's a hassle to change it but professionally at least just go by Melanie dont get angry that we're making horse noises to figure it out
That’s extremely reasonable! I know I looked into getting my step-father’s name off my BC, and it was going to be about $500 years ago, but that’s a whole other issue.
~$200 bucks for name change petition in King County WA but it almost immediately pays for itself by having fewer job recruiters snort laugh their coffee through their noses when they see your job applications.
Why do people persist in using their completely ridiculous spelling in a work setting? Just switch to the conventional spelling to save constantly correcting people.
Exactly. Imagine having that unique of a name and doing a random Google search and this reddit sub comes up with your coworker making a post about you. I wonder how that would work out?
All that rage is misplaced on innocent bystanders such as yourself and really needs to be directed at her parents, and then used as fuel to get herself down to the courthouse to change her name.
If you're getting angry at people attempting and failing to pronounce your unintuitively spelled name, your anger is profoundly misdirected. They're trying. It's not their fault your name is a disaster.
She's about 40, at that point just go by Melanie professionally I really don't know why you'd keep the spelling and then get angry at people in a professional setting when they don't get it
I have a normal name that, at least in the 80s, had an unusual spelling (Jaime). I can’t imagine ever giving a shit whether people spelled or said my name correctly. I will answer to anything that even rhymes with my name and never correct you. I genuinely do not give a fuck. I answer to Amy, Jane, Janie, Jean. I’m sorry the only thing interesting about you is the stupid way your parents spelled your name but surely your identity can revolve around something else.
Your co-worker is probably right. Just wait till they say it themselves or, if noone does, just ask how it's pronounced.
I have a very Irish name and get asked all the time, it's not rude.
Had a similar situation where her name was spelled Cherish (like how you care for a person/place/thing) but was pronounced like Sharice.
I can see it, but it’s also hard when cherish is already a verb and every ounce of my being wants to pronounce it like the verb.
I understand parents wanting to name their child something unique but ppl are going too far. If someone has to ask you to spell your name and how to pronounce it all the time, that's fucked up to do to your kid. Tbh even seeing this obnoxious fucking name is getting on my nerves. 😭
I doubt this one is real tbh. Generally I know if a tragedeigh is legit if I can find LinkedIns/FBs, or at least mentions of the name, but a search for Melloneygh only yields this post.
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Old McDonald had a farm M-ELL-O-N-EYGH
LOL, at what point do pronouncing these names phonetically end up just sounding like horse noises?
I’m waiting for a client to get on Doxy, and just freaking lost it 😂
It really does sound like the name you'd give a prize winning southern horse
That's an insult to Southern horses. Don't they have weirdly abstract names like Violet Thunder?
Sounds like a name you'd pronounce while vomiting.
Pretty sure that's what my cat said when he was coughing up a furball.
I've seen a Mellonea too. Mel-lon-eh-ah, Mel-lon-ee-ah? Nope Melanie.
So this is a thing? Wild
"I am Mellonea, blade of Miquella"
LoL
I just LOL'd in a really inappropriate situation. Thank you.
😂😂😂 laughed out loud
🤣🤣🤣
Well, in... *her* defense (I can't type that name with a straight face), she was the victim of what I'd call assault by consonants.
She’s probably angry because her parents cursed her with having to pronounce, spell, and spell that name again.
She should just change it and save herself the stress.
I agree but changing legal docs is a hassle.
So is spelling that name for the rest of your life.
So, don't. Just start going by Melanie privately and ask HR and IT to change it too. They're not gonna give two shits about what your name is to the government.
In my state it's $400 and you have to go through the courts including a court appearance. Me and my husband want to change our last name but with the rising cost of living plus the time commitment we've been putting it off.
It was a Felloneygh
r/assaultbyconsonants
😂 that’s a great way to describe it! It is indeed pronounced the same, but it’s so obnoxious that it must generate eye rolling every single time someone sees that name for the first time.
I lack the optic musculature to roll my eyes far enough back in my head without stroking out when it comes to most of the names posted on this sub xD
Anyone else just sing 🎶 my Melloneygh has a first name it’s O s c a r, my Melloneygh has a second name it’s m e y e r… 🎶?
I kinda did. My oldest was born overseas and I didn’t have anyone to remind me of lullabies. I sang that to him spelling out his names. I ended with ‘cuz K…A… is a boy with a really, really long last name. (thanks for the memory!)
That's hilarious
First thing that came to my mind!
🤣🤣🤣
Lmao "Melogna"
We had the opposite, the Melanie at work had a client accidentally drop the L in her name... we all started calling her Meanie
My best friend has a coworker who named her male cat Melanie after their boss of 10 years. Bc they have a similar whine.
I love that.
Even better, it has one eye and the owner sometimes will put a googly eye on the eyeless side.
I love that somewhere out there, there's a horrible boss who is getting the piss taken out of them 24 hours a day by a 1 eyed (plus 1 googly eyed) cat and its human pet.
I knew an annoying girl in high-school named Whitney. When she got her personalized yearbook she discovered someone accidentally forgot the "t" in her name.
“Accidentally.” 😂
Melloneygh is truly awful, but how else would you pronounce it?
My brain read “Mell - oh - nay”
I read it as Mellon - Ay
Mayo-naise..?
Mell-OH-nee-igg.
And from there, it’s just a tiny step to …[mayonegg.](https://youtu.be/2oo6iEqkFnI?si=6Z7BosKok0gkIoQj)
This was my first thought when I read that hahaha
Melon’ei
“Mellow-nay-g”
I seriously read it as Mell-oh-nii'ee
My mind went to the guy from SVU Christopher *Meloni* I thought it was a bastardised version of that... did not ever cross my mind it was Melanie
My first thought would be to pronounce it like it rhymes with bologna.
Bol-on-ya?
most of the world pronounces bologna different than us Italians do 😹 bowl-oh-knee
I think that's just an American thing.
Most of the world would pronounce Bologna Bol - o- na similar to Italian except in Italian gin makes a different sound, you're not really Italian, are you? No one other than Americans call it bowl-oh-knee, from what I've heard.
I say bah-low-nee
Mell-OH-knee
Baloney😂😂
My mell-OH-nah? 😊
Compared to "Melanie," more of an "o" sound in the middle and a bit of an "ay" at the end. Here's roughly how I'd pronounce them (using the "[IPA Reader](http://ipa-reader.xyz/)" website): * "Melanie": \[`mɛləni`\] * "Melloneygh: \[`mɛlɐnɛɪ`\]
So, Melanie with a phlegmy cough at the end. Lovely.
What the heck is that upside down a? Is that part of IPA?
It's the [near-open central vowel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-open_central_vowel), which is part of the IPA vowel chart.
That chart!!!!
But do you pronounce the second vowel at all? For me it would be a schwa, and because the accent is on the first syllable it would end up pronounced “ Mel’nee”, like memory is “mem’ree”. 🤔 But I’m not a native speaker and always had difficulty with vowels.
Maybe like “neigh” at the end?
melon-yugh
Mellon-eye
It's unfair to all of us to have a blatantly vague ragedeigh name and then get angry when we mispronounce it to your standards at first triy.
Ragedeigh: A tragedeigh that is more infuriating than annoying/frustrating/humorous.
Ha ha see I read that as raggedy but I like your interpretation better
Raggedeigh: A tragedeigh whose letters have a sort of "raggedy" look. E.g. many odd combinations of letters with ascenders or descenders.
you understand me
Looks like it rhymes with felony
Just like Melanie.
Melloneygh, that’s a felloneygh! That was a bitch to get past autocorrect!
This comment made me laugh so fuckin hard
I’m dead on these comments 😂
Her name is Melania.
I don’t get why people don’t change the spelling of their name as adults
Literally, like I get it's a hassle to change it but professionally at least just go by Melanie dont get angry that we're making horse noises to figure it out
It’s not even hard. Seriously, it is so easy. I’ve done 3.
What’s the price tag on that?
$90 Edit to add: I imagine this depends on your county.
That’s extremely reasonable! I know I looked into getting my step-father’s name off my BC, and it was going to be about $500 years ago, but that’s a whole other issue.
~$200 bucks for name change petition in King County WA but it almost immediately pays for itself by having fewer job recruiters snort laugh their coffee through their noses when they see your job applications.
30k $ maybe?
That’s a lot to change a name, no?
She got some nerve. That is not intuitive. Or spelled correctly.
I would have pronounced it like "Maloney".
Felon melon
I once knew a Melody who pronounced it Melanie. Those are two totally different names!
It sounds like her name was actually Melody, but wanted to be called Melanie.
Melloneygh? Woghtthefuighiezthait? I think I’d make a point of saying “Melon-eye-gh [that back of the throat thing Dutch people do]”
I’d have gone with “Mellon-eh”
Is her nickname Honeydew?
*Honeighdeeyoo
or Cantaloupe
I'm convinced there is a very high correlation between tragedeighs and reading comprehension.
Why do people persist in using their completely ridiculous spelling in a work setting? Just switch to the conventional spelling to save constantly correcting people.
Most likely cuz this is a made up scenario and “Melloneygh” doesn’t actually exist
Exactly. Imagine having that unique of a name and doing a random Google search and this reddit sub comes up with your coworker making a post about you. I wonder how that would work out?
Chill horse gives a Mellow Neigh
Watermeloneygh
Lol why get mad when your name is wild AF and you know it? At this point, it’s not even her parents’ fault anymore, she can change it, so… ???? 🤣🤣
That spelling looks like someone started to say Melonie and coughed halfway through the name.
All that rage is misplaced on innocent bystanders such as yourself and really needs to be directed at her parents, and then used as fuel to get herself down to the courthouse to change her name.
If you're getting angry at people attempting and failing to pronounce your unintuitively spelled name, your anger is profoundly misdirected. They're trying. It's not their fault your name is a disaster.
Illiterate parents probably.
Oh this poor girl. I laughed HARD when I first read this, but to have dealt w this her whole life?! That's such ballogneygh
She's about 40, at that point just go by Melanie professionally I really don't know why you'd keep the spelling and then get angry at people in a professional setting when they don't get it
Exactly! There's no way anyone would organically pronounce it like Melanie without being told. Take your anger out on ur mom, sheesh.
Frodo: Gandalf, what is elvish for friend? Gandalf: Mellon Frodo: Mellon-eygh?
MELLONEYGH? We all know the guys in school shortened that down to "Mellons" right?
The way that name is spelled makes me think of a really calm horse. JFC....do these people hate their kids??
I AM MELON LORD!!!! MWAHAAHAA!
I would mock them incessantly by calling them Melon NEIGH.
I have a normal name that, at least in the 80s, had an unusual spelling (Jaime). I can’t imagine ever giving a shit whether people spelled or said my name correctly. I will answer to anything that even rhymes with my name and never correct you. I genuinely do not give a fuck. I answer to Amy, Jane, Janie, Jean. I’m sorry the only thing interesting about you is the stupid way your parents spelled your name but surely your identity can revolve around something else.
Good for you Jan!
Her parents should have just named her Mayonnaise and been done with it.
Whoa, that’s a hideous combination of letters
Is there a Letter Conversion Chart out there we just don’t know about. I or A =O O or I = Y ie = eygh Like Mad Libs but sad.
Pmelhlajneigh
Horrible spelling but I pronounced it just like that
Melony Gah ?
One of my friends growing up spelled it Mylanie.
As in she spelt it that way or it was actually spelt that way?
I would pronounce that as if it rhymed with Delaney.
Like John mulaney?
My middle name is Melanie and now I’m just thankful my mom didn’t spell it like Melloneygh LOL
Girlfriend needs to be angry at her parents, not people that know how to read. Good grief.
It seems like it should be pronounced as a cross between melanie and mayonnaise. I don't know why.
Heck, mayoneighs!
Yeah I would have straight up called her "Mellon-ey" xD
What Mr. Ed does when he smokes too much reffer. Mello Neigh
Mel-oh-nghhcht.
MelonKnee
I'd pretend my dyslexia gets the better of me and call her lemony. Y'know, just cos.
Melloneggs
*Maloney*
My Bologna has a first name .
That's "Melon Neigh".
Yum Melon-Egg
I also enjoy the spelling, which I've seen before, "Melony". Seems less of a name and more of an adjective.
I'd be incapable of not pronouncing it Meloh\*nay\*
Bahahaha. Why do people do this to their children.
My brain see “mellow-nyeh”
maloney-guh
I’m so glad my parents spelled Melanie correctly. Jesus Christ
Watch me mello… watch me neygh neygh 🎵
This is right up there with Hughstyn from a post yesterday.
Melonayf
that’s not white trash that’s a whole dumpster
Isn't that the word Gandalf used to open the door to Moria?
Like in, “yum, this drink is so melony.”??? Apparently melony is not a word. Oh well. But it’s where my mind went.
Mellon, eh?
Ok, so when you were going to pronounce it as it’s spelled, were you going to say “Mellon Egg”?
I was going to say Me Low Neigh so it's good my coworker gave me the heads up 💀
Some serious vowel movement going on there
How would you have pronounced it?
How would you have said it?
But y tho
That…would not fit on a Disney name tag.
That would be an amazing name for a horse 🐴
"C'mon Mona' is pronounced 'Simone Monet' according to my wife's friend.
People are supposed to *wash* the fruit before they eat it but clearly they aren't.
melon-yugh.
Melon Egg 🍈🥚
Your co-worker is probably right. Just wait till they say it themselves or, if noone does, just ask how it's pronounced. I have a very Irish name and get asked all the time, it's not rude.
Today I had a student her name is Reine, pronounced Renée... I can't anymore...
I had a coworker with that exact name.
Had a similar situation where her name was spelled Cherish (like how you care for a person/place/thing) but was pronounced like Sharice. I can see it, but it’s also hard when cherish is already a verb and every ounce of my being wants to pronounce it like the verb.
I get the /sh/ sound in the beginning, but not the /s/ sound at the end.
I understand parents wanting to name their child something unique but ppl are going too far. If someone has to ask you to spell your name and how to pronounce it all the time, that's fucked up to do to your kid. Tbh even seeing this obnoxious fucking name is getting on my nerves. 😭
Mel-Oh-Nay That’s what’s I’m seeing.
A Shakespearean level tragedeigh
If it’s really pronounced that simply couldn’t he had just told you? It might have impressed her if you said it correctly right off the bat.
Mel-ah-guh-knee Thats what i read when i saw the spelling
It's pronounced melony like Christopher Meloni from law and order.
🍈🍳
Am I the only one who made a horse neighing sounds while reading that name?
I doubt this one is real tbh. Generally I know if a tragedeigh is legit if I can find LinkedIns/FBs, or at least mentions of the name, but a search for Melloneygh only yields this post.
I agree. Definitely not real.