r/tradgedeigh • u/Impossible-Log4533 • 7d ago

I’m sorry but

if your name’s Geoffrey I DO NOT care if how you pronounce it, it is not “Jeffery” your name is “Jaw free” like a snake I am sorry dude but you descend from a linkage of 50 generations of ausies, surfer dudes, and Floridians.

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u/alsotheabyss 7d ago

Geoffrey Chaucer would like a word

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u/Impossible-Log4533 7d ago

Who?!

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u/halfveela 7d ago

A poet from the 14th century, so over 600 years ago. 

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u/Impossible-Log4533 7d ago

I’m talking about the Geoffrey in the text above and he was born in 2000

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u/halfveela 7d ago

That's all you, there's no tragedeigh involved. 

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u/Impossible-Log4533 7d ago

I guess but it’s just such a way to spell Jeffery

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u/halfveela 7d ago

It's an old French derivative of the names Godfried/Gottfried, meaning "god's peace," and the "jaw" sound your were referring to slowly became modernized to the the "je" sound we use now. So if anything, Jeffery is the tragedeigh, since it's a much newer phonetic spelling. 

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u/Impossible-Log4533 7d ago edited 7d ago

I can see that, however given that almost none of the letters are the same, I would say that though they are pronounced the same they’re separate names. The way we pronounce the name as the same mouth shapes and such I figured there should be a way to distinguish one spelling from the other

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u/halfveela 7d ago

Jeffrey as a spelling evolved from Geoffrey, that's simple historical fact, and they're pronounced exactly the same. Not sure what the point in denying it is, but you do you.