Maven (famous)@piefed.zip to Ask LemmyEnglish · 4 months agoWhats the worst baby name?message-squaremessage-square180linkfedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down15
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minus-squareradixlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoI also know a Tad. It’s not some cringe 2000s kid, either, this guy has to be 70 or thereabouts.
minus-squareChunkMcHorklelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months 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-up1·4 months agoprobably same reason “Bill” is short for “William”
minus-squareLORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months 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.