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Help[Opinions] Re: Kaydee
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Katie is like Betty - they are pronounced as though the "t" is a "d" where I'm from. While the spelling "Kaydee" addresses this, it's just too cutesy. The main character of the movie Mean Girls is named Cady. I don't know that that's much better because I think she gets called Caddy like a golf caddy by the principal or a teacher. There's also the initial way to deal with it like K. D. Lange. Just easier to avoid the name altogether! haha!
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This is the case for my area too. It's almost unheard of for a crisp T to be used, it's almost always turned into a D sound. I think it's just the accent, it would sound absurd to us to clearly enunciate the T. That's why names like Letty and Lottie don't work well here, they would become Leddy and Loddie.
Huh, I didn't realize Betty was pronounced with a T sound either. Isn't the Betty character on Riverdale pronounced like a D?
I've never heard of any names with a t pronounced with a d before