Symbols and letters can be combined to form words that are easily pronounceable based on the understood sounds assigned to various symbols: The male name “Matt” could be rendered as for instance, with most people easily working out how to say it. And the author of the 2008 book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles renders her name as Jennifer 8 Lee. In 1993, recording artist Prince changed his name to an orthographic representation he dubbed “Love Symbol” and styled himself “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince” before reverting in 2000 to his original name. She got attitude and said its Ladasha … true story.”Īs to the use of symbols within (or in place of) names, while such practice is rare, it is not unknown. His friend called roll and pronounced Lea like the princess.
Little girl came in for lessons and spelled her name Le’a. “My bro in law just told me a fantatic apostrophe story. In that 5 September 2008 entry from, “Ledasha” spelled her name with an apostrophe: While the original e-mail quoted above dated from early October 2008, the first online appearance of the “Ledasha” story we’ve found so far is at least a month older. For what it’s worth, references in various news stories document that “Ledasha” (fully spelled out, not in a “Le-a” form) has indeed been used as a girl’s name. What we have found through searching online Social Security databases (which are not complete repositories of information and thus aren’t the final say in the matter) showed that while there were more than 4,000 “Lea”s, there weren’t any “Le-a”s. The racist and disapproving aspect of this item is clearly expressed in comments appended to many versions, such as “And we let these people vote!” and “They live among us, they vote, and they breed!”:Īs to whether there is such a child, despite our hearing from dozens and dozens of readers who have claimed to us a girl bearing such a name was in their class or was in a class taught by a relative or acquaintance of theirs, we’ve yet to find documentation of anyone’s bearing a name of “Le-a” that is pronounced “Ledasha” (or any other way). The closing line of the anecdote (“the dash don’t be silent”) positions the person who bestowed the moniker as African-American through its phrasing in African American Vernacular English (AAVE), also known as Ebonics: Such use of “don’t be” in place of “isn’t” is particular to AAVE. While the unusually named child in versions circulated back then was almost always said to attend “a school in Livingston Parish (Louisiana),” we encountered one stray version that stated “This child attends a school in Richland County, Georgia” and another that said “This child attends a school in Detroit, MI.” When the mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she said “the dash don’t be silent.” SO, if you see something come across your desk like this please remember to pronounce the dash. Her mother is irate because everyone is getting her name wrong. This child attends a school in Livingston Parish. It’s pronounced “Ledasha” oh yes…you read it right. How would you pronounce this as a child’s name?
An item about a child supposedly named “Le-a” began circulating on the Internet in early October 2008.Ī school teacher friend sent this to me.
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