Maven (famous)@piefed.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoWhats the worst baby name?message-squaremessage-square174fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down15
arrow-up1109arrow-down1message-squareWhats the worst baby name?Maven (famous)@piefed.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square174fedilink
minus-squareHermit_Lailoken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 months agoI once worked with a guy named Tad. Not Todd nor Thad.
minus-squareradix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months 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-up3·3 months agoMaybe it is an oldtimey name.
minus-squareChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months 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-up1·2 months agoprobably same reason “Bill” is short for “William”
minus-squareMayor Poopington@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoI have a distant uncle Tad. Short for Thadeus. Dudes pushing 70 and still an absolute party animal.
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months 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.