Maven (famous)@piefed.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhats the worst baby name?message-squaremessage-square182linkfedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down15
arrow-up1114arrow-down1message-squareWhats the worst baby name?Maven (famous)@piefed.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square182linkfedilink
minus-squareradix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month 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-up3·1 month agoMaybe it is an oldtimey name.
minus-squareChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month 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-squareLORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoprobably same reason “Bill” is short for “William”
minus-squareLORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoI have a distant uncle Tad. Short for Thadeus. Dudes pushing 70 and still an absolute party animal.
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.