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Re: What name is becoming popular that you don’t care for?
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Jream. I literally don’t get it.

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Ha, I've never seen this one. Not that I'm defending it, but interestingly when we say "dream" or anything starting with dr-, we are mostly saying a soft j, like jream. Same with words that start with tr-, we really end up saying a chr- (tree becomes chree, sort of). I had never really thought about this until I took a phonetics class.In some accents it's probably more pronounced than others, which is why it probably makes some sense to whoever invented this name.