Maven (famous)@piefed.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoWhats the worst baby name?message-squaremessage-square176fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down15
arrow-up1109arrow-down1message-squareWhats the worst baby name?Maven (famous)@piefed.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square176fedilink
minus-squareHermit_Lailoken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·5 days agoI once worked with a guy named Tad. Not Todd nor Thad.
minus-squareradix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoI also know a Tad. It’s not some cringe 2000s kid, either, this guy has to be 70 or thereabouts.
minus-squareHermit_Lailoken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoMaybe it is an oldtimey name.
minus-squareFrostyElm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days agoShort for Thaddeus, but you’re right, the “Tad” spelling is apparently for the over-forty crowd. I don’t personally remember seeing “Thad” before the 90s, and then it left me wondering how to pronounce it when I did.
minus-squareMayor Poopington@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoprobably same reason “Bill” is short for “William”
minus-squareMayor Poopington@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoI have a distant uncle Tad. Short for Thadeus. Dudes pushing 70 and still an absolute party animal.
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agobetter than techno mechanius, or tau, siderael or AEX.
I once worked with a guy named Tad. Not Todd nor Thad.
I also know a Tad. It’s not some cringe 2000s kid, either, this guy has to be 70 or thereabouts.
Maybe it is an oldtimey name.
Short for Thaddeus, but you’re right, the “Tad” spelling is apparently for the over-forty crowd. I don’t personally remember seeing “Thad” before the 90s, and then it left me wondering how to pronounce it when I did.
shouldnt it be THAD and tad.
probably same reason “Bill” is short for “William”
I have a distant uncle Tad. Short for Thadeus. Dudes pushing 70 and still an absolute party animal.
Tad, short for Tadalafil.
“TADA!” for short…
That’s perfect.
better than techno mechanius, or tau, siderael or AEX.