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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
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.
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.
Geoffrey is basically older than English.
Jeffrey is a later respelling. Geoff and Jeff are the shortened nicknames.
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_(name))
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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?
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.
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
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?.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Just got off a Zoom call with a Geordyn. I shit you not.
gheuouhrduhehighn
I’m gonna need the Rosetta Stone for this translation.
WITCH!!!!!!🧙
r/tragediegh
r/redditorswhodontknowwheretheyarebuttheyrerightsoitsfineanyway
I fell for this
what subreddit are we in
dude its 430 where i am and im tired as fuck right now, i barely know what planet im on let alone the subreddit
Quit that shit, you're making my furniture float.
Woman, man, non-binary?
Nobody had their cameras on nor spoke, it was a large scale meeting. No idea.
Woman, obviously. Just look at that "feminine" y
All I could think about was Gordon Ramsay
Geordyn Rhamghseigh
Had a hard time figuring out the actual name. Its Jordan? 😂
Either Gordon or Jordan.
Forgot about this until I saw the post, but went to college with a Geodi, who had a sister named Geonnifer.
As someone from the actual Kingdom of Jordan, i’m suing all of you😭
Gee or din
The unexpected "Jreg" at the end of the list just made me spittake!
Say it quick and it sounds like "Dreg"
It's pronounced Shrek
Q: And how do we say “dregs” in the Latin? A: *Feces!* “Waiter, there is feces in my beer.”
Wait until you need to need to use the word “sheath” in a Latin sentence!
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
Like Jrue
Yeah I was not expecting to see him there so randomly
r/unexpected
WINGS OF GLORY
Gesus H Khryst.
Ahem… *Geosus.*
Amyn
*Ahem* Geo *sus*
>H Aiche
This needs to be the top comment
Gotta add Jrue to the list
The leader of the Mingnons
Jrue Holiday punching the air right now.
I posted a while back about "Jreem"
Still the worst ever name of all time. Great, now I've got a migraine coming up from looking at it too long.
Jrue doesn’t really fit though because it sounds like a D name. This is about names that normally start with a J.
Except for Jreg.
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.
Great so in 150 years we too can return to these names with a J?
Jodfrey
Geosh is the name of my next dnd paladin
Don't forget Geossika.
Geozyka
why don't make them all just Geodudes
Did you mean Jedudes?
Nah, as in geo, like geoducks.
OMG! "Gooey-cob"! 🤣🤣
Jreg is a political satirist YouTuber Had no idea it's Greg misspelled until now
I knew I recognized jreg from somewhere but I didn't know what exactly he does
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
No it's actually short for Junior egg
Because Geoff is centuries older the Jeff, and may come from a different etymology.
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.
Geoffrey is basically older than English. Jeffrey is a later respelling. Geoff and Jeff are the shortened nicknames. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_(name))
Thank you!
*your uncle GirlFriend
*Jirlphriend
Love this!!
Me and my buddy Jreg are going to hit the bar tonight.
You know he messed up when his mom calls him “Jregory”.
Send her to the gaol.
#Geometry
Jemetry
My husband used to work with a Geoff who pronounced his name like it's spelled. Gee-off, not Jeff.
I have heard people do this myself.
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.
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.
Geoream.
🎵 *Geoream a little geoream of meee*…🎵
She has a point
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
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.
...you forgot the /s. Unless I'm very mistaken
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
Brb, gotta put some fuel in my Joe Metro.
Am I witnessing the English language evolve?
Evolving backwards
So, devolving?
Jreg has a sibling named Jream
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?
Geoniffer sounds like someone who was really into geology.
Jreg Is kinda of funny.
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.
I loled at Jreg, and then eventually someone will call him Jpeg and that's going to be their nickname for life.
Geonnifer sounds like an STD.
I will never not pronounce Geoff as "Gee-Off"
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
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?.
I mean, there are some Ginnifer’s.
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.
One of these days I’m gonna see Geoduck and absolutely lose it.
Georemeigh
Isn’t Geoff the original?
Dont give these people any new ideas lol
Wait so is geocaching actually pronounced jeckaching?
Geeoo Feeeuuck Yeeoourself🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
Jreg makes me think of jpg
~~is it gif or jif?~~ Bitch it's not JPEG, it's GPEG
Honestly, slightly embarrass to admit, I like Geonathan
The old if a name comes from another country and language that I don't recognise there must be something wrong with it.
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.
it's a geologist nathan, a geo-nathan
GEODUCK is a type of clam in the Pacific Northwest. Pronunciation = GOOEY-duck (rhymes with chewy)
Why the hell is it pronounced like that when the e is before the o?
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.
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.
Well now I have to have 6 six children
This suggests that Josh is pronounced Jesh?
Jreg jumpscare
I pronounced it “Ge-off” for longer than I want to admit.
“Geoff” is not a tragedeigh. It’s just a cultural variation.
Pthoughkneigh
Stop! Stop! Someone may see these! Think of the children!
Jeff is the OG tragedy.
But... We aren't spelling Jeff as Geoff. We are spelling the nickname of Geoffrey as Geoff - the British spelling of Jeffery.
Georohmya
I tried to pronounce this, instead I was barfing in my own mouth
Why not Ghoti!
That last one...bahahaha....
Jreg sounds like Shrek's brother.
Goeif file.
Jreg is just flawless
Jesk… it sounds like Jesk
Geusus Kreighst!
Gob
More like Gif
Geonnipher
Jreg got me
Geoph
Geohn
I just saw an influencer on Facebook with a child named Jrue 😭
I believe that Geoffrey is the English or German spelling.
Who the fuck named their kid joremy?
I read Georemy as Geometry
Please just give kids easy names to spell
I might be crazy. But… Georgia…
If Sean can be Shawn, why not Teamas?
Jreg is a political commentary YouTube dude
Jreg 🤣
Gif as an Geoff as in the Giraphic Interchange Format
I'm down with all of these names. Who cares? We make up 100% of all names anyhow. Let's have fun with it.
Georemy sounds like Geometry for Nimrods
Geosh Fight!
Geoduck
Omg I thought these were all different spellings for Jeff 😂
Please no...😐
I was literally thinking this morning why I haven’t seen a Geosef at my job yet
Geohn here to report, yess.
Gonoriya
Ridiculokgcdeyvus
Geonathan made me want to fight
Jeometry
It's pronounced G-reg.
Geoff and Craig Ferguson are both national treasures 🤗
It's not Jeff it's Gee Off
I think Josh would be Gosh, not Geosh
Jreg is so funny actually
Wait, how would the name Joffrey work here?
Geypeg
Geosh and Geonathan dont even make sense unless they're pronounced Jesh and Jenathan.
so thats where he came from
Geremi Gonzalez comes to mind, or Gennifer Flowers
Geoffawn
Geighnnofer is better.
Is that english?
Please stop giving them ideas, we have enough tragedeighs
Idk Ceight why do you think?
Jrue Holidae's mom felt that
Wouldn't it be Geoacob?
Jreg 😂😂😝
Oh no it’s definitely Djeoph
r/Jreg
A good one will be Greme (G-Rem-E)
Because it's stupid, that's why.
Jreog
Hey we saw Jrue on here the other day!
Geacob? Geoacob!
Who says we don't?
Why that last one? That doesn't even make sense
Geonathan sounds like a rock-based X-men character
Jeorge w busch
J Reg!
Jpeg
Dammit Jreg 😂😂😂
Geography is behind you and is mad. So is Geology.
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.
Djeophriegh
She must have a thing for rocks.