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HelpRe: Honesty
in reply to a message by PrincessZ
I remember it exactly. Okay, I just Googled it and it turns out it's on several websites as a personal name, so apparently it's not as unusual as I thought and definitely not unique. I'd just sure never seen it before. The sites say the usage is African-American. It was Aunestie.
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One of my friends is a teacher and had a student who spelled her name Juanastie, pronounced like the word honesty. That always comes to mind when people ask "what's the worst name you've ever heard". Aunestie would typically get on my nerves as a misspelled word name, but it seems great in comparison.
This message was edited 2/14/2020, 6:11 AM
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Oof that poor kid
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With that spelling I feel two things; mostly that its pointless and will subject the kid to a lifelong "how to you spell that?". However, I also that it seems to be pushing a certain pronunciation. In England, we pronounce the "h" like HON-iss-tee (or if your common as muck like I am, it'd be ON-iss-teh) but Aunestie seems to force you to pronounce it a very American "AWN-iss-tee". So I can see why it might be used that way, to force a pronunciation
Still, it seems pointless.
I can't seem to find much on it, myself. Is it an alternate spelling or does it originate from a different source?
Still, it seems pointless.
I can't seem to find much on it, myself. Is it an alternate spelling or does it originate from a different source?
This message was edited 2/14/2020, 5:41 AM
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I doubt it's meant to make the preferred pronunciation clearer, because, I'm struggling to imagine an American pronouncing the H in honesty (so no reason to differentiate), the 'aun' would be more confusing if anything because some people pronounce 'aunt' like 'ant', and there'd be no reason to switch y to ie for pronunciation's sake.
My guess is it's a creative spelling or an unintentional misspelling that caught on and became its own thing.
My guess is it's a creative spelling or an unintentional misspelling that caught on and became its own thing.
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I see some people pronouncing the "y" like "tay" and the "ie" forces "tee" but I don't know what accent that is
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I don't know. I can't find that information either. I just took the fact that when you Google it, things come up, to indicate that it's an established, if unusual, name, and not the complete neologism I'd thought it was.
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