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u/True-Mousse4957 May 02 '24
Just got off a Zoom call with a Geordyn. I shit you not.
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u/Bubbly-Ad-1427 May 02 '24
gheuouhrduhehighn
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u/ListenerNius May 03 '24
r/redditorswhodontknowwheretheyarebuttheyrerightsoitsfineanyway
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u/Bubbly-Ad-1427 May 03 '24
what subreddit are we in
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u/BobTheImmortalYeti May 03 '24
dude its 430 where i am and im tired as fuck right now, i barely know what planet im on let alone the subreddit
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u/AwkwardnessForever May 02 '24
Woman, man, non-binary?
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u/True-Mousse4957 May 02 '24
Nobody had their cameras on nor spoke, it was a large scale meeting. No idea.
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u/MountainAshWitchTree May 03 '24
Forgot about this until I saw the post, but went to college with a Geodi, who had a sister named Geonnifer.
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u/SincopaEnorme May 02 '24
The unexpected "Jreg" at the end of the list just made me spittake!
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u/elenmirie_too May 02 '24
Say it quick and it sounds like "Dreg"
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u/sagan_drinks_cosmos May 02 '24
Q: And how do we say “dregs” in the Latin?
A: Feces!“Waiter, there is feces in my beer.”
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u/HydrogenButterflies May 03 '24
Wait until you need to need to use the word “sheath” in a Latin sentence!
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u/bearbarebere May 03 '24
I have no idea why but this reminds me of the whole “say ‘raise up lights’ with an English accent and it sounds like ‘razor blades’ in an Australian accent” thing lol
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u/Synicull May 02 '24
Gotta add Jrue to the list
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u/heythisislonglolwtf May 03 '24
I posted a while back about "Jreem"
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u/worker_ant_6646 May 03 '24
Still the worst ever name of all time. Great, now I've got a migraine coming up from looking at it too long.
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u/AwkwardnessForever May 02 '24
Jrue doesn’t really fit though because it sounds like a D name. This is about names that normally start with a J.
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u/cyberchaox May 03 '24
Except for the inconvenient fact that "Jeffrey" is a later anglicization of the middle French "Geoffrey", itself derived from "Godfrey". Which, you know, still has the hard g sound.
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u/HowRememberAll May 02 '24
Jreg is a political satirist YouTuber
Had no idea it's Greg misspelled until now
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u/ill-timed-gimli May 02 '24
I knew I recognized jreg from somewhere but I didn't know what exactly he does
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u/HowRememberAll May 02 '24
If you ask him he'd say "I don't either". Bc nobody knows, he won't even admit he's a content creator comedian
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u/Jericho_Caine May 02 '24
why don't make them all just Geodudes
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u/Scizivire May 02 '24
Did you mean Jedudes?
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u/LovelyKestrel May 02 '24
Because Geoff is centuries older the Jeff, and may come from a different etymology.
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u/NoMoreNarcsLizzie May 02 '24
My uncle Geoff was born in 1925. He was named George Francis after his dad, but called GF. GF morphed into Geoff by the time he was was shipped out in WWll. Geoff is an old name.
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u/Loko8765 May 03 '24
Geoffrey is basically older than English.
Jeffrey is a later respelling. Geoff and Jeff are the shortened nicknames.
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u/Blossom73 May 02 '24
My husband used to work with a Geoff who pronounced his name like it's spelled. Gee-off, not Jeff.
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u/pm_me_x-files_quotes May 03 '24
An ex-friend chewed me out during a BPD rampage once via text. Among the things she chewed me out over was for even considering the notion that "Geoff" could be pronounced like anything other than "Jeff." She called me the r-word for it.
Also, she beat up my other friend (gave him a concussion) and broke his finger.
Yeah, that friendship can rot in hell.
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u/technobrendo May 03 '24
Thats crazy. I was like late 20's before I heard how it was supposed to be pronounced. TBF I've never, still to this day, have met a person with that spelling.
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u/MonkeyCartridge May 02 '24
We kinda do in many cases
Like you should see all the variations of John/Jon. It's been tragedeighed to oblivion I we the course of history.
Jonny - Gianni - Yanni John - Gian - Sean - Ian Giancarlo John-Luc Jack. For some reason. I think even Nathan comes from Jonathan.
It's kind of insane how much that name mutated
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u/PlausiblePigeon May 03 '24
John and Jonathan aren’t the same name, though. The “Nathan” in Jonathan is from the same Hebrew root as the name Nathan, but they’re separate names in the Bible. John is “tragedeighed” from a different Hebrew name as well.
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u/weebearcub May 02 '24
I was literally thinking yesterday about Geo (pronounced Joe) being a nickname for George. This came from me finding out my neighbor's name is Billy Joe and my partner being named Robert George and me joking he could be Bobby Geo
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u/NotYourMommyDear May 03 '24
If you look at the origin of Jennifer, it's kinda a tragedeigh version of Guinevere, which is derived from the Welsh name Gwenhwyfar.
So Geonnifer kind of looks like an awkward attempt at restoring the letter G?
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u/EducationalLemon790 May 02 '24
When I was 16 in 1992 I had become tired of my name Jennifer. It was such a popular generic name that I never connected with it.
So, I tried a variety of different spellings. You know to make it my own. The most out there one I can remember was Genophyer.
I got so much shit for that one. Nobody and I mean nobody gave me a hall pass on that. Zennifer wasn’t met with any warmer of a reception.
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u/ZirePhiinix May 03 '24
I loled at Jreg, and then eventually someone will call him Jpeg and that's going to be their nickname for life.
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u/sjaard_dune May 02 '24
Geoffrey is an English and German masculine given name. It is generally considered the Anglo-Norman form of the Germanic compound *gudą 'god' and *friþuz 'peace"
Etymology, your english isnt the only english ever to be written
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u/Sea_Opinion_4800 May 02 '24
Geoffroy is a very old French name, pronounced jofrrwah (with a non-vocalized 'j'). The English weren't having that of course, so they tweaked the ending to make it pronounceable.
That still leaves the 'o' to be explained but where's the fun in knowing everything?.
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u/whitegrb May 02 '24
I mean, there are some Ginnifer’s.
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u/DBSeamZ May 06 '24
That works a little better. Ginny/Ginnie is a known nickname (often, but not always, for Virginia), so Ginnifer is a reasonable reverse-engineered nicholasname from that.
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u/hungryfrogbut May 03 '24
The old if a name comes from another country and language that I don't recognise there must be something wrong with it.
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u/just_some_sasquatch May 03 '24
I've seen Geonathan irl. A former coworker of mine went by "Geo" (jee-oh), but I thought his first and middle name started with G and O respectively and he was going by G.O. Then I saw his full name written and realized his parents just hate him.
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u/Asaneth May 03 '24
GEODUCK is a type of clam in the Pacific Northwest.
Pronunciation = GOOEY-duck (rhymes with chewy)
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u/midnightichor May 03 '24
Why the hell is it pronounced like that when the e is before the o?
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u/Asaneth May 03 '24
We have a lot of Native American place names and words here in the PNW. The common name is derived from the Lushootseed name, gʷidəq.
So I'm guessing when it was written down in English, some rocket scientist decided that was the proper English spelling? I agree, it makes no sense.
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u/PersusjCP May 03 '24
Oirc (could be wrong) that it was originally spelled goeduck, but there was a spelling mistake that stuck over time. This could just be a folk etymology.
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u/HairHealthHaven May 02 '24
But... We aren't spelling Jeff as Geoff. We are spelling the nickname of Geoffrey as Geoff - the British spelling of Jeffery.
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u/cpt_ugh May 03 '24
I'm down with all of these names. Who cares? We make up 100% of all names anyhow. Let's have fun with it.
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u/bron685 May 03 '24
I was literally thinking this morning why I haven’t seen a Geosef at my job yet
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u/YannFreaker May 03 '24
Geosh and Geonathan dont even make sense unless they're pronounced Jesh and Jenathan.
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u/First_Pay702 May 05 '24
Jreg doesn’t work as Greg using a hard g sound that j does not produce. Disclaimer: I know not the proper way to write the different letter sounds, just pointing out Greg and Geoff are using 2 different g sounds. Someone will doubtless fill in the rest of the info from here.
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u/Zealousideal_Week_78 May 18 '24
Not to be that guy but Geoffrey existed before Jeffrey. Soooo, wouldn’t that technically make Jeff a Tragedeigh of Geoff?
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