"Ellis" is a new one 🤷🏼‍♀️

[krono@toot.berlin]

@alice next level: `ls`

[cordiallychloe@tech.lgbt]

@alice I do NOT understand why names are so hard for people.

Apparently EVERYONE thinks my name is spelled "Chole" because that's how it gets written, and then repeated back to me, constantly.

CHLOE ISN'T A HARD NAME 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@not_a_label 🫂

[c0debabe@masto.hackers.town]

@alice Alis. A-lease. A-lease-y. Alis. Slice (this typo was easier to figure out). It's fascinating how other culture approach our name.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@stefani I asked for a cold chai, no ice, and that's how they rang it up.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@theorangetheme fuck ice indeed!

[amyzenunim@unstable.systems]

@alice I've gotten Eliss'd a few times.

part of it is mishearing, part of it is a lot of people have never seen the name "Alice" in the wild.

I don't fuck around with that anymore and just always order through the apps like a bougie fuck.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@AVM_Violet noted..?

[ashedryden@xoxo.zone]

@alice if it helps any, I once ordered food and they put it under the name “Ass” lolsob

[munin@infosec.exchange]

@AmyZenunim @alice

.....wait, really?

I mean yes, as a trans girl I'm more likely to see it than most, but it's one of the top 100 popular names; is it really that rare to see it?

[munin@infosec.exchange]

@CordiallyChloe @alice

I chose my name very deliberately to be easy to spell - it's spelled exactly as it sounds, there's only one common canonical spelling, and while perhaps not a super common name it's one that a few famous people have had.

And yet some people have gone thru great effort to spell "Fiona" incorrectly, tho I suspect the one coffee shop person who keeps fucking it up has dyslexia.

[juandesant@mathstodon.xyz]

@alice nothing can beat “Santander, like the bank” transformed into this… in the Royal Mile of Edinburgh.

[amyzenunim@unstable.systems]

@munin @alice maybe it's just a regional thing but here in Toronto people frequently tell me "oh I've never seen that name before" after struggling to pronounce it, regardless if english is their native language or not.

it's a fairly archaic name at this point, peaking around 1910. it had a bit of a resurgence in the 2000s but nowhere near what it was. it's pretty much relegated to "grandma name" at this point, and I say that with affection (obviously) lol

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@CordiallyChloe yeah, I've never met an "Ellis" before. "Alice" isn't a common name, but it's a very well-known one.

I've also gotten "Alex" before (which is forgivable, as it's rather more common than Alice these days).

[miss_rodent@girlcock.club]

@CordiallyChloe @alice My name is literally one letter long, and gets misspelled more often than it gets spelled correctly.
I've had 'Vee', 'Ve', "Vi', 'Vie', 'Be', 'Bee', 'Dee' etc.
... When I give my name, I also fingerspell it to the person, just, out of habit (it's also trivial to do b/c, again, one letter.) Does not seem to help most of the time.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@Ashedryden oh no 🫂

[alonely0@mastodon.social]

@munin @CordiallyChloe @alice I could see some people going for the Greek "ph" as in "Phiona". English is weird.

[amcasari@hachyderm.io]

@alice I used to use the name "Batgirl" as my coffee name, and a super wild group of baristas renamed me "FatGrrrl" after making me repeat myself multiple times

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@AmyZenunim @munin yeah, it peaked in percentage around 1890 and in raw numbers around 1910.

It is *surprisingly* common on Fedi for some reason though—like every living Alice fled other social media and ended up here.

[pikhq@social.treehouse.systems]

@AmyZenunim @munin @alice 12th most popular girl's baby name in canada in 2024 apparently, i think it might just be that the kids named that haven't gotten to adulthood quite yet