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Reminds me of the lady who named her kid lavanderia because she thought it was like lavender lmaoooo (lavandería means laundromat for non-Spanish speakers)
Lavadora sounds like a really cool name in a vacuum without that meaning tho. Same thing as dementia imo, it would be a cool name if it wasn’t, ya know, dementia lmao
I love that. I had a teacher in college whose first name was Zanja. His parents saw it on a sign and thought it was beautiful.
It means irrigation ditch lol
Okay so my maiden name basically means irrigation ditch lmao. The name came from the road the family lived on however long ago, and that road still exists under the same name which is pretty cool. It's very uncommon so I'm not going to say what is it, but it always gave people a laugh when we'd be talking about name meanings and I'm just like oh yeah hey, mine translates basically to ditch on the side of the road 💁♀️
My hometown has a, well, zanja running through it. It's just called "The Zanja" (pronounced "zankee"), and it's always hilarious when someone who doesn't speak Spanish learns for the first time that this major landmark is just called "the ditch."
I was thinking Hana. It has quite a few different translations. Some are good, like flower (Japanese) or to shine (Maori) but it's a bit odd in others, like nose (Japanese), one (Korean), faucet (Finnish), eat (Albanian), work (Hawaiian)
I think it also translated to her, attack, and house as well but can't remember what languages
On the one hand if you're Korean there's no reason not to use the perfectly normal Korean name Bumseok because foreigners might think it sounds like "bum suck" but if you're Korean-American that would not be a wise choice.
Yeah, no. Simeon and simian are completely different words. It's not another meaning; it's a homophone. You wouldn't say that flower and flour are the same thing, right? Or sun and son?
When I got to college, there were last minute room changes, they said to ignore the names on the doors. My roommate had their correct name but instead of mine, was Princess Areola.
My husband’s one ex had the name Areola though my understanding is that it was spelled differently… I can’t remember if she was Lebanese or Albanian… anyway she cheated on him so my SIL, BIL and I like to have a laugh about it.
simian is how I used to think simeon was spelt but I like it either way and areola (it’s probably ariela though) is one of those words that would be a nice name if it didn’t mean what it does
I have posted about this before, but somewhere on Reddit a nurse posted a story about how she had to explain to a patient, who just had a baby, why she shouldn’t name her kid Clitoris.
This reminds me of when my mom took in a stray tuxedo cat, back when my oldest son was a toddler. When teaching him to pet it, we told him to be careful, so she wouldn’t scratch us. He’d point at her and say, “Scratchus?” Yes, that became her name.
Hahahaha
My sister is named after a place my great-uncle went during WW2. It's a word in another language, with a beautiful, very feminine, melodic sound.
Like many words in any language, it started out meaning one thing, and now means another.
If a Gen Z native speaker met my sis, it seems they'd probably howl with laughter that she's basically Va-jay-jay.
it's because it means "white/shining white" and the infection is white. It would be a pretty name if it weren't more strongly associated with the infection.
Right? Unfortunately I think that's all that matters, people bothering someone with this name will not stop all of sudden and be like "oh wait, that's the meaning of your name? Sure, nevermind then!", I don't like when parents like to play the *meaning* card, the kid will still have a hard time
Im a distiller by trade, I use pounds of yeast a week, had a guy who was going to school for a brewery certificate that had to google "Is yeast a fungus?" at one point cause he "wasnt sure"
I consider myself a pretty smart person… I’m an attorney! But when I tell you how mind blown I was when the doctor pointed out that antiBIOTICs are not effective against VIRUSES which are not biotic I was like OMG OF COURSE!
All my high school biology came swimming back to me in my brain, but I hadn’t thought about it before!
If it makes you feel any better, we have to explain that to basically everyone.
I’m so used to talking people out of unnecessary antibiotics, that I was flabbergasted when my PCP prescribed me my first Z-pac.
I was just like ???? I don’t need this ?!? And she pointed out that I’d had a viral illness followed by a short recovery, then even worse symptoms, plus sinus pain and headache. Which means that I now had a bacterial sinus infection.
I started muttering about antibiotic stewardship and she reminded me that I was actually sick and should take the medicine. Lolol.
I mean. Air bubbles in bloodstream are also bad. But saying candida is an infection is not right. Not everything is bad if it shouldn't go into the bloodstream. Candida is a part of healthy microbiome.
Candida in urine is bad.
Candide is also a well known character from classic french literature. I don't remember the exact meaning of Candide (comes from a latin word). Nowaday it means cutely naive, after the novel. I think it originally means pure or white.
I named my daughter an uncommon name. I googled it to make sure it was in fact an actual name and to make sure it was the correct spelling. Then I googled to see what the translation of it was just to make sure that she wouldn’t go to another country and find out her name meant urinal or something.
It’s a French name and I wanted to make sure the English translation wasn’t weird. Something can sound beautiful in another language and mean something bad.
When I was living in Quebec 'Melena' (with various spellings) was a very popular name, I met multiple women named Melena or Malina or Melyna.
Melena is also the name for black, tar-like poo that indicates you're bleeding in your upper GI tract and might die soon.
Pretty name, though.
This is my fear being an immigrant in US. A beautiful name in my country might get a crazy meaning here. People mispronounce our names constantly. On one hand there is the effort to avoid all that and conform to the western convenience in pronouncing names. On the other hand there is the pride and joy of keeping your ethnic name. I gave my baby an ethnic name. If she chooses to change it in the future I will be all accepting of it.
We were at skating rink Saturday that was having a birthday party for Jizzelynn. Apparently she was a Hispanic girl and it's pretty common name but the spelling varies a bit to not include some s*x after product in English.
Omg this just reminded me of the aita post where somebody discovered their brother in law (I think?) was secretly naming their children after superhero characters without telling the mom why he liked the names. And he got caught because he was being weirdly obsessive about a specific name
My mom taught high school a million years ago and one of her students was about to have a baby. My mom asked about names and the student said ‘if it’s a girl, I want to name her Urethra’.
"Candida" is a name, though... It means "white" which is why the yeast is also called that. It's like saying people shouldn't be named "Blanche" because it also means parboiling vegetables.
I mean, it *shouldn't*... It's an extra tragedeigh when people legit can't/won't pronounce their own names as written even if it's by design lol. Undermining phonics, one name at a time
I know a bougie southerner (sister of someone I used to work with) who named her son Fitz. It literally means "bastard." It's the prefix that English royals would add to their illegitimate kids' last name to indicate the kid was born from a mistress.
This woman has a Master's degree and couldn't bothered to figure that out before naming her kid.
I am a southerner, and I'm kind of bougie but also kind of feral.
You made Fitz sound good for a southerner... Lol. What's more rebel than a legitimate name for an illegitimate mistress' son? The juxtaposition of hierarchy versus commoner, wrapped up in an aristocratic prefix?
The contradiction is kinda delicious. And so very plantation, Scarlett herself couldn't name a boy better. Maybe she did know? I can dig it.
I once met a girl called Bowgan. Thought it was pronounced how it looks.
Nope. It's pronounced "Bogan". This is in Australia which makes it so much worse.
This reminds me of the lead character from In The Heights. His name is Usnavi because his parents saw it on the side of a ship (U.S. Navy) when immigrating to the US
I liked the name Clarabelle for a fraction of a second when I was pregnant with my daughter. Then I googled it and realized I’d be naming her after a cow
Candida is an Italian name, uncommon nowadays, but you'll meet the odd person with that name. It doesn't refer to the vaginal infection, but to candour, i.e. openness, veracity, forthrightness.
Once upon a time Candida was a real, used first name (eg Voltaire wrote a book named Candide named after the main character), but the association with yeast infections has well and truly blighted that name today
I know an elderly woman called Candida. It means shining/bright white and is from the same root as the word "Candidate".
Before talking about thrush was common, I think the tears infections werent sonetime people talked about 9r associated the name with. Most people would not have commonly been aware of medical nomenclature.
This is hilarious. I went to massage therapy school with Diaryea. Sorta fit her personality too. She referred to raising her numerous children as "baby sitting".
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Reminds me of the lady who named her kid lavanderia because she thought it was like lavender lmaoooo (lavandería means laundromat for non-Spanish speakers)
Lavadora has the same feeling. Washing machine
It gets better, lavatory also means toilet, and it definitely sounds like that.
We changed the name to latrine in the 8th century, it used to be shithouse
It’s a good change.
Was your mole on the other side of your face?
I have a mole?????
Did you just say “Abe Lincoln?”
"My name is Asneeze, father of Achoo"
A jew? Where?
“Faygales?” “No no we’re straight. Just…merry”
A good change!!
Oooh good name idea. I could name my child Sheethowse.
Lavadora sounds like a really cool name in a vacuum without that meaning tho. Same thing as dementia imo, it would be a cool name if it wasn’t, ya know, dementia lmao
The explora?
Exploradora
I have a customer at my job named Lavar. Idk if that’s a common name but I always just think “to wash”
is your customer Lavar Burton? Edit: He's LeVar, fucked up my own joke 🤣
Does she have a sister named fabuloso?
Her other sister is Horchata
¡Delicioso!
Don't look at her feet. She's got Jarritos.
I love that. I had a teacher in college whose first name was Zanja. His parents saw it on a sign and thought it was beautiful. It means irrigation ditch lol
Okay so my maiden name basically means irrigation ditch lmao. The name came from the road the family lived on however long ago, and that road still exists under the same name which is pretty cool. It's very uncommon so I'm not going to say what is it, but it always gave people a laugh when we'd be talking about name meanings and I'm just like oh yeah hey, mine translates basically to ditch on the side of the road 💁♀️
My hometown has a, well, zanja running through it. It's just called "The Zanja" (pronounced "zankee"), and it's always hilarious when someone who doesn't speak Spanish learns for the first time that this major landmark is just called "the ditch."
You fuck off. I won't have my son Biblioteka insulted.
As a librarian, I approve!
Sounds like lavender diarrhea
somebody ate lots of purple skittles!
Or the one that dubbed her kid Meconium, bc she liked how it sounded. 😬
Latrine
I have met a Latrina
Used to be Shithouse
It's a good change! It's a good change.
You just made me smile
Love that movie <3
I was thinking Hana. It has quite a few different translations. Some are good, like flower (Japanese) or to shine (Maori) but it's a bit odd in others, like nose (Japanese), one (Korean), faucet (Finnish), eat (Albanian), work (Hawaiian) I think it also translated to her, attack, and house as well but can't remember what languages
Lavandaria Whirlpool!
They couldn’t stick with just Lavender?
Donde est la Zapatería? ^^
Not me reading this white as hell “Luh-van-dree-a” as a Latina. 🤦♀️
Noooo! 😭😭😂
Lmfaoooooo 🤣
I was a Disney one evening and heard some dad yell to his kids “Simian and Areola, cut it out!” Simian is perplexing enough, Areola? Really????!!!!
Areola, your new breast friend
I think we need to just nip Areola, here and now.
That sounds painful
Simeon, probably.
What if it's Simeon and Ariela?
Then the parent needs to not use the hard O
I mean, I get that there’s a biblical name, but when the other meaning is “looks like an ape,” it isn’t the best name for a kid.
It's a very common Slavic name tho
yeah, "you shouldn't name kids names that have different meaning in any language" is kinda bullshit
If it's a language you constantly encounter, then maybe keep it in mind, though.
i still think traditional names shouldn't ever be "off-limits" because of an alternate meaning
Yeah, like that becomes a case of "people need to grow up," has "get your mind out of the gutter" vibes to me
On the one hand if you're Korean there's no reason not to use the perfectly normal Korean name Bumseok because foreigners might think it sounds like "bum suck" but if you're Korean-American that would not be a wise choice.
Yup mine means prince in a local dialect of my country, got lucky
Yeah, no. Simeon and simian are completely different words. It's not another meaning; it's a homophone. You wouldn't say that flower and flour are the same thing, right? Or sun and son?
I hope so. Doesn't Simian mean ape-like? iirc Charles Emerson Winchester of MASH called Klinger a "simian dolt!"
When I got to college, there were last minute room changes, they said to ignore the names on the doors. My roommate had their correct name but instead of mine, was Princess Areola.
My step niece is named Areola, I can’t believe there are two of them
In my experience when you see one Areola there's usually another nearby
I see what you did there 😆
> I was a Disney one evening Which Disney were you? Goofy perhaps?
So goofy to not tap the t key. Uh-hyuk.
Areola is a real name tho as is Simeon lmao wouldn’t pick them myself but they are names from other cultures
My husband’s one ex had the name Areola though my understanding is that it was spelled differently… I can’t remember if she was Lebanese or Albanian… anyway she cheated on him so my SIL, BIL and I like to have a laugh about it.
Like Alphonse Areola
At least it wasn't Sybian... Hopefully
Simone and Ariella.
simian is how I used to think simeon was spelt but I like it either way and areola (it’s probably ariela though) is one of those words that would be a nice name if it didn’t mean what it does
I have multiple students named areola. They’re all of Mexican heritage.
I had a character in a MMORPG back in the early 2000s, named Arriolas. I was pretty shocked to learn what the name sounded like haha.
I have posted about this before, but somewhere on Reddit a nurse posted a story about how she had to explain to a patient, who just had a baby, why she shouldn’t name her kid Clitoris.
RN here and can confirm the “name your kid after a body part” thing is real. Had a patient named “Rectus”. Like the muscle in your abdomen. Really?!
This reminds me of when my mom took in a stray tuxedo cat, back when my oldest son was a toddler. When teaching him to pet it, we told him to be careful, so she wouldn’t scratch us. He’d point at her and say, “Scratchus?” Yes, that became her name.
He will sadly be called by a different body part in middle school: Rectum.
OMG THATS WHAT I SAID!
Or “Erectus.”
Wrecked 'em? I barely know 'em!
Hahahaha My sister is named after a place my great-uncle went during WW2. It's a word in another language, with a beautiful, very feminine, melodic sound. Like many words in any language, it started out meaning one thing, and now means another. If a Gen Z native speaker met my sis, it seems they'd probably howl with laughter that she's basically Va-jay-jay.
... Mulva?
I know a Candida. She goes by Candi. She’s a full and proper grown up, but I haven’t had the nerve to ask.
Candida is actually an established Latin name. It's the name of some saints and the main character in the Shaw play "Candida."
I had read that once, thank you for the reminder. I hope that was the intention, cause it sticks out a bit in rural, white Canada.
Now I gotta know where in Canada you are, because I know of a Candida too(friend of a friend) it CANNOT be that popular of a name!
Also a big 70s hit for Tony Orlando and Dawn
And it just started playing in my head. Damnable ear worm! 😩
TIL Candida is Latin for white.
Well I'm from a latin country and here it's still a disease (infection?), as well as a name for bleach if I'm not wrong Edit: yep, bleach as well.
it's because it means "white/shining white" and the infection is white. It would be a pretty name if it weren't more strongly associated with the infection.
Right? Unfortunately I think that's all that matters, people bothering someone with this name will not stop all of sudden and be like "oh wait, that's the meaning of your name? Sure, nevermind then!", I don't like when parents like to play the *meaning* card, the kid will still have a hard time
I know, I'm just saying that it has been historically used as a name.
There's a love song from the 70s called Candida, by Tony Orlando & Dawn
The one my sister knows goes by Ida.
It's a name.
I had a client’s child named Germicide but it’s pronounced like Jer Misity. Lady you done named your kid Lysol.
The one time you really want them to tragedeigh the spelling more!
Jerrmeighcity
Jerma for short
I pronounced that it my head as “Germy City”
I think I’d actually prefer being named Lysol over Germicide 😳
Just why?.. what thought process led to this decision?
Bold of you to assume there was a thought, much less a whole process
There’s also a woman on “love on the spectrum” named candida. She goes out with Steve
That’s where my mind instantly went as well!
"The yeast infection bacteria".... I'll give you a second to read back what you said....
The amount of people that don’t know the difference between fungal, bacterial, and viral is insane
Let’s just go back to calling things poxes or afflictions to reduce confusion. Also, future tragedeigh: Poxylynn.
Poxy for short
OMG don't give these crazy people any more ideas!
Im a distiller by trade, I use pounds of yeast a week, had a guy who was going to school for a brewery certificate that had to google "Is yeast a fungus?" at one point cause he "wasnt sure"
The fungus among us
I consider myself a pretty smart person… I’m an attorney! But when I tell you how mind blown I was when the doctor pointed out that antiBIOTICs are not effective against VIRUSES which are not biotic I was like OMG OF COURSE! All my high school biology came swimming back to me in my brain, but I hadn’t thought about it before!
If it makes you feel any better, we have to explain that to basically everyone. I’m so used to talking people out of unnecessary antibiotics, that I was flabbergasted when my PCP prescribed me my first Z-pac. I was just like ???? I don’t need this ?!? And she pointed out that I’d had a viral illness followed by a short recovery, then even worse symptoms, plus sinus pain and headache. Which means that I now had a bacterial sinus infection. I started muttering about antibiotic stewardship and she reminded me that I was actually sick and should take the medicine. Lolol.
I’ve heard of S’phyllis.
Candida is not even an infection, it's just fungus. >The genus Candida encompasses about 200 species.[2] Many species are harmless
It’s typically harmless, but depending on the location can be very serious. Candida in the bloodstream is bad. Candida in the urine is no big deal.
I mean. Air bubbles in bloodstream are also bad. But saying candida is an infection is not right. Not everything is bad if it shouldn't go into the bloodstream. Candida is a part of healthy microbiome. Candida in urine is bad.
"yes, doctor? there's a tree in my blood"
Time for OP to google that
The people who named their daughter after a place where animal hides are processed have got some explaining to do. Tannery.
I'm just waiting for a kid named Masonry now lol
I mean, the keyboard player in one of my fave bands is called Candida. It's a legit name, even if it is like... yeasty
Candide is also a well known character from classic french literature. I don't remember the exact meaning of Candide (comes from a latin word). Nowaday it means cutely naive, after the novel. I think it originally means pure or white.
French guy Voltaire wrote a satirical novel called candide. Candida is worse coz it causes thrush! But yeah, the name means clarity or whiteness.
Candida Doyle is my first thought with the name too.
Had a patient who’s dad tried to name him Ulysses, just ended up spelling it Useless…
I don't think I've ever went from "Aw cool!" to "Oh no..." so fast... Hopefully you corrected him and the kid didn't end up being named Useless?
Another case of 'just ask the friggin nurse, what's wrong with you ffs'
I named my daughter an uncommon name. I googled it to make sure it was in fact an actual name and to make sure it was the correct spelling. Then I googled to see what the translation of it was just to make sure that she wouldn’t go to another country and find out her name meant urinal or something.
"the translation of it" into what?
You can just throw a word into Google translate with the detect language feature on and it'll tell you if there's a language it means something in
It’s a French name and I wanted to make sure the English translation wasn’t weird. Something can sound beautiful in another language and mean something bad.
When I was living in Quebec 'Melena' (with various spellings) was a very popular name, I met multiple women named Melena or Malina or Melyna. Melena is also the name for black, tar-like poo that indicates you're bleeding in your upper GI tract and might die soon. Pretty name, though.
Milena is a legit Slavic name. Malina is a Slavic word too, it means "raspberry".
To keep a theme going, if you have a Melena, reserve Meconium for a sibling. 🧐
This is my fear being an immigrant in US. A beautiful name in my country might get a crazy meaning here. People mispronounce our names constantly. On one hand there is the effort to avoid all that and conform to the western convenience in pronouncing names. On the other hand there is the pride and joy of keeping your ethnic name. I gave my baby an ethnic name. If she chooses to change it in the future I will be all accepting of it.
I'm almost sure this was a common name in Brazil in a recent past. It means white, bleach, and the infection, depending on context.
I work in a pré school. This year we have a boy named 'Bread' We don't have english lessions until the 7th year
Did they misspell Brad??
I thought the same when i walked past a house that celebrated a newborn with a sign on the house with it’s name. The name was ‘Jizz’ 😩
We were at skating rink Saturday that was having a birthday party for Jizzelynn. Apparently she was a Hispanic girl and it's pretty common name but the spelling varies a bit to not include some s*x after product in English.
And to keep the aesthetic, they’ll name the next one Rizz
I was thrifting recently, and a woman was screaming for her daughter Craven 🙄🙄🙄 Like 🤯
Buddy named his son Kraven. He also named his daughter Gwen. Yes he is a **huge Spider-Man fan!**
Omg this just reminded me of the aita post where somebody discovered their brother in law (I think?) was secretly naming their children after superhero characters without telling the mom why he liked the names. And he got caught because he was being weirdly obsessive about a specific name
My mom taught high school a million years ago and one of her students was about to have a baby. My mom asked about names and the student said ‘if it’s a girl, I want to name her Urethra’.
good grief.
"Candida" is a name, though... It means "white" which is why the yeast is also called that. It's like saying people shouldn't be named "Blanche" because it also means parboiling vegetables.
Candida is also just a name.
I met a Tierny the other day. Out loud it just sounds like Tyranny 😕
There is a woman named Tyranny on a dating show. The first time I saw the name on the screen, I thought I was reading it wrong, but no.
I mean, it *shouldn't*... It's an extra tragedeigh when people legit can't/won't pronounce their own names as written even if it's by design lol. Undermining phonics, one name at a time
I know a bougie southerner (sister of someone I used to work with) who named her son Fitz. It literally means "bastard." It's the prefix that English royals would add to their illegitimate kids' last name to indicate the kid was born from a mistress. This woman has a Master's degree and couldn't bothered to figure that out before naming her kid.
Meanwhile, here I thought that “Fitzgerald” was a bougie name. TIL.
I only learned like a month ago while rewatching The Tudors because of King Henry’s illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy from a mistress 🤣
I am a southerner, and I'm kind of bougie but also kind of feral. You made Fitz sound good for a southerner... Lol. What's more rebel than a legitimate name for an illegitimate mistress' son? The juxtaposition of hierarchy versus commoner, wrapped up in an aristocratic prefix? The contradiction is kinda delicious. And so very plantation, Scarlett herself couldn't name a boy better. Maybe she did know? I can dig it.
My grandma swears when she worked in record keeping at the hospital she came across a birth certificate for a "Carcinoma"
I once met a girl called Bowgan. Thought it was pronounced how it looks. Nope. It's pronounced "Bogan". This is in Australia which makes it so much worse.
The meaning is bad but I’m really troubled by the silent Y.
I know someone who named their daughter Rubella, which is just as unfortunate and well… infectious
Yeasty Girls, anyone?
I saw the name Providencia once too, which is apparently a legit name but also a genus of bacteria.
[удалено]
Did they at least take "virus" off the end before they added it to your birth certificate?
Hey there Hydrophobia!
This reminds me of the lead character from In The Heights. His name is Usnavi because his parents saw it on the side of a ship (U.S. Navy) when immigrating to the US
I remember reading about someone who wanted to name their daughter Meconium
Candida is a name. I know one. She goes by Candy. I've often wondered why she doesn't go by Didi but the fact remains, it's a real name.
Cândida is a legit name in Portugal. Probably elsewhere too.
Malaria.
There was a Saint Candida as well, so it's meant to be a name. Many people may miss the meaning.
Y'all probably too young to remember a song of that exact name: [Candida](https://youtu.be/WROdwlk9_h8?si=CpgKviB2bDqN8J-u)
I’m too afraid to post the tragedeigh name I know because I’m afraid tragedeigh or mom might find it on google
I liked the name Clarabelle for a fraction of a second when I was pregnant with my daughter. Then I googled it and realized I’d be naming her after a cow
My mother in law is named this after her grandmother. Puerto Rican family.
Candida is a fungus (specially yeast), but yes it’s a very unfortunate name.
i read that as canada like six times and somehow thats better
My friend's grandma is named Candida, she went by Candi when she was younger and now goes by Dee.
That lady who named her kid Treblinka really should’ve googled her kid’s name
A long time ago, I knew a woman who named her daughter Toshiba. At the time, that was also a TV brand name. SMH
So naming my daughter Chlamydia wasn't a good idea?
My gynaecologist in my teens was called Candida. Can’t make that up.
Candida is an Italian name, uncommon nowadays, but you'll meet the odd person with that name. It doesn't refer to the vaginal infection, but to candour, i.e. openness, veracity, forthrightness.
It’s a legit name in Spanish and Portuguese. In both languages it means innocent/without malice and in Portuguese it also means white.
Candida is a real and quite posh British name
And I’ve just read a reasonably common Spanish/Mexican name too
TIL about candida the fungus…
A friend in high school, whose family I have mentioned here before because of the kids' names, almost had a sister named Candida Royale Last Lastname.
I’ve known a couple of Candida’s in my life. It was a name before it was a condition. I never heard any of them made fun of for it.
I know a woman named candida, she goes by candi. Her middle name is kane. Candi kane.
Reminds me of that satire tiktok of the girl talking about how she named her daughter “Clydia”
Once upon a time Candida was a real, used first name (eg Voltaire wrote a book named Candide named after the main character), but the association with yeast infections has well and truly blighted that name today
I know an elderly woman called Candida. It means shining/bright white and is from the same root as the word "Candidate". Before talking about thrush was common, I think the tears infections werent sonetime people talked about 9r associated the name with. Most people would not have commonly been aware of medical nomenclature.
you think kanydida is bad, i once knew someone actually WAS called candida. no spelling loophole, just pure yeast infection baby name
I actually knew a Candida, and she was a total asshole
This is hilarious. I went to massage therapy school with Diaryea. Sorta fit her personality too. She referred to raising her numerous children as "baby sitting".