Ms Redford said the gate agent "started laughing, pointing at me and my daughter, talking to other employees", and her daughter had asked her why they were mocking her.
"She said: 'Mom, why is she laughing at my name?' And I said not everyone is nice and not everyone is going to be nice and it's unfortunate," Ms Redford said.
You named your little girl Abcde for ****'s sake!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46393501
I met someone named Qwerty once, but I assumed this was a nickname or a deed poll effort. Now I'm not sure.
Am torn on this one.
On the one hand, the airline/employee shouldn't have responded to the name in that way. Very unprofessional .
However...Abcde?
How’s it pronounced?
They pointed and laughed because abcde is a boy’s name.
How’s it pronounced?
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My wife teahces a kid called McCartney. His brothers are called Lennon and Harrison.
No Ringo...Yet.
The sign of true professionalism is to keep a straight face and laugh at the parent once they leave.
Living with the name Abcde would be bad but her younger brother Fghij is really screwed.
The kid deserves sympathy but the mum deserves all the mocking coming her way. American though - so nothing surprising.
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My wife teahces a kid called McCartney. His brothers are called Lennon and Harrison.
No Ringo…Yet.
You're testing us, right? Or is there really a flaw in your thinking?!?
Well Frank Zappa named his kids Dweezil, Ahmet, Moon-Unit and Diva (a bit ordinary that last one). But he said it was their surname that would cause them trouble.
Moon-Unit’s vocal on Valley Girl is excellent.
With a name like that I'm assuming that School register time is probably like this :
How’s it pronounced?
parricide
How’s it pronounced?
Alphabet.
How’s it pronounced?
Pronounced ab-si-dee apparently, and because Absidee isn't weird enough Abcde it is. I wonder if the mum is secretly raging because it took until her girl was 5 years old before she could get some viral social media publicity out of it.
@psling: I was thinking the same thing.
Her sister is called Ella Minnow Pea
As if life isn't hard enough without being lumbered with a ridiculous name.
I had a delivery man come into work yesterday laughing and joking about the pisstake name some one had put on the parcel.
It was just my name 😂
Yet her brother Stu breezed through check in without so much as a s****.
^ Razor sharp there Perchmeister, razor sharp.
According to the article in 2014 there were 328 children named Abcde in the US...!
From over fifty years ago:
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Edit: sorry - not very visible. It’s a “Peanuts” cartoon from the early ‘Sixties, with a character called ‘5’, full name 555-95472.
Wifes a health visitor based in one of the Chav strongholds of east manchester,
The kids names there are crackers,
2 sisters called Dolce and Gabbana,I kid you not.
It's a common Hawaiian name apparently, nothing to do with Jackson 5.
The laughing is one thing (and not on) but the other is taking a photo of a passengers boarding pass and posting it on social media - surely that is a cause for instant dismissal?
I'm not surprised this is a US airline though. I get a glowing feeling of pride when I fly a British airline like BA back to back with a US airline and a sense of dread when I am about to board a US plane as I know there is a strong chance I am about to be subjected to a complete lack of professionalism and customer service. But then to them it's like getting on a National Express coach.
Nothing like an US immigration looking at your passport and saying with your surname you look like a Portuguese pirate!!
I love that it's pronounced ab-si-dee, how much of an idiot parent do you have to be to that to your child?
Even David Bowie's son has changed his name to Duncan.
Have a friend, Jerg. When he flew to the States the guy checking his passport laughed and said "your name sounds like jerk".
But Abcde...? That's just ridiculous.
, Her father , Robert has a real sense of humor tho
nope. image posting fail
Should have been Hijklmno, pronounced Worter.
328 children called Abcde... imagine the fun with internet logons
My parents used to work at a school where one mother had named her two children Tia Maria and Tequila. Any wonder social services were involved at an early stage?
I encountered somebody through work this week whose daughter is called "Latte", however they didn't check the spelling before the registration of birth and they've spelled it "Laate" .
^ although sounding like an IKEA furniture item, that's the Urdu word for fetch or carry.
anyone who pronounces latte as laate needs flogging anyway.
on a separate note, we wanted to give our daughter an old fashioned name such as Gladys, Phyllis, Minna or similar. Loads to choose from, but In the end we just called her "Nan".
Loads to choose from, but In the end we just called her “Nan”.
After your Grandma?
I met someone named Qwerty once
The airline staff were simply preparing the child for what she’s going to get for the rest of her life.
She'll be well set up for a job in Google's parent company
At my friend's daughter's school there was another girl called La-a, it's pronounced Ladasha.
Poor kid.
She must get called Lahyphena a lot.
There's a chav family up the road from me, they've a young girl and a younger lad. The girl's name is Portia, I know this because it's bellowed across the street several times a minute in the evenings. For ages I thought it was an unusual choice of name for the child of a not-working-class family. Then it suddenly dawned on me... it's not going to be Portia at all is it, it's bloody Porsche...
It’s a “Peanuts” cartoon from the early ‘Sixties, with a character called ‘5’
I've seen that very strip in real life. I used to know a lad (from the US, because of course he was) with the middle name of Seven. His mum reckoned that some day we'd all be numbers so he should be ahead of the curve.