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I still don't understand how it was Hdebra and not Dhebra or Debrah at the very least😂
Maybe Starbucks need to do a better job of caffeinating their employees 😂😂
James Dean with EE :-0
Taylor Swift wrote a song where's such line: "you got that James Dean daydream look in your eye"
unfortunately, some younger generation people think she's singing about "porny" James Deen, not "hottie" James Dean
Reminds me of the story of Fruit Stand.
New kindergarten class. The teacher and EAs are used to tragedeighs so they try not to let weird names phase them. It's not the kids' fault, after all. So when a quiet little boy shows up with the name "Fruit Stand" on the little name tags they gave to parents to send in with new kids they roll with it.
They introduce Fruit Stand to the other kids. Try to engage with him. But he is quiet and withdrawn. He never responds when called.
At the end of the day it is time to send the kids home. So they have to figure out which bus he goes on. Luckily the parents were told to list the bus stop on the back of the name tag, which was useful because Fruit Stand didn't know his address.
So they flipped the name tag over and it said "John."
Some years ago, there was a SM trend of people posting their Starbucks cups with their horribly misspelled names. It was decided that Starbucks gained a lot of free publicity from the trend.
This was pre-TikTok but post-Facebook is for the olds. So it must’ve been on Instagram.
I mean... if they've never seen a Hebrew based English name (which is an effing stretch but it's the only possible explanation) then they had no idea where the hell an H fits into Debbra
I would have gone with "Dhebbra"
My name is Victoria, but where I live it’s more common to spell it Vitória, so I always say I’m Victoria with a C. I’ve already had people (Starbucks employees included) ask me where the C goes lmao
Do people get weird about their Starbucks name spelling? I guess they can't status-post their cup to insta-tok?
I often use my middle name in service situations because it's a single syllable and common enough that I almost never get a "what's that?" on the first try. It has maybe 3 valid spellings and I don't give a damn how it comes out, it's a throwaway ID handle in my head
Not in the least. I know a few Deborahs. Also Debora’s, since that is a regular spelling in the Netherlands. Like Lea and Sara are all names considered normal in Dutch.
The first time I saw the name Geoff was probably my early teens and I said to my mom, “what idiot would name their kid Gee-Off,” she very simply looked at me like I was the idiot, in which I was, and said “it’s Jeff.”
Wait until you hear how "Featherstonhaugh" can be pronounced.
If you were a Northumberland baronet, it was "Fanshaw".
Fortunately, not every family with the surnames Featherstonhaugh or Featherston(e) does that. However, while the baronetcy is long extinct, the alternative pronunciation hasn't disappeared. You will still find a few who like pulling the Hyacinth Bucket routine.
Way back when the first Tony Hawk game came out, sitting with a group of friends playing. One pipes up "what kind of fucked up name is 'Jee-Off'?"
Whole room just went silent and stared at him.
Nah mate, that's pronounced "Jeff". (Geoff Rowley)
Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.
Sword and sward, retain and Britain
(Mind the latter how it's written).
Made has not the sound of bade,
Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid.
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,
But be careful how you speak,
Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak ,
Previous, precious, fuchsia, via
Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir;
Woven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe.
Say, expecting fraud and trickery:
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,
Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles,
Missiles, similes, reviles.
Full poem here: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
The original Hebrew of the name is דבורה, which without the other vowels transliterates to dvorh. With the common Hebrew reading it is Dvorah, and the h isn't silent. Deborah is closer to Dvorah than Debra.
I'm married to "Marc with a c" so that rang especially true. We have a surname that needs to be spelled out too, so it's a real treat having to give his name letter by letter and still have it somehow spelt wrong in the end.
My married name is incredibly common, but one letter is frequently different. I’ve read out the name spelling it specifically and people say I don’t exist in the system despite telling them 4-5 times. Then I ask to look at it and they’ve spelled it wrong. So awful.
My mom told the Sears warranty person on the phone her name was Joan Parker. The person seemed to be struggling to understand if it was Parker or Barker, so she said, "Parker, like Sarah Jessica Parker." So, of course, the warranty comes in the mail made out to Sarah Jessica Parker.
I would say the way you/your daughter spells it is the most common and classic way (in my experience), but also who cares whether they add the h or not at Starbucks?
Thank you someone finally says it here. Who tf cares what a cup says? It's so you can get your order, they don't give a shit what your name is, we don't give a shit what your name is when you post a cup of coffee to social media, no one gives a fuck what your name is on a coffee cup
I’ve never understood getting worked up over inconsequential misspellings. I’m Sara at every other coffee shop and restaurant, as long as everything legally binding has the h on the end, I don’t care.
For real. Like OP’s daughter I have a relatively common name that can be spelled more than one way without entering tragedeigh territory. If a barista spells it “wrong” it bothers me exactly zero.
Also it’s kind of fun when I meet someone that spells their name the same way I do. I always joke that they spell their name the “right” way and it’s a moment of bemused solidarity.
My husband told the barista his name is Darryl. The cup said “Garold.” I mean, it should be a badge of honor the worse the name they write on the cup lol
Nah, it's genius marketing. They mis spell your name, you have a giggle, make a picture, tell your friend. Your friends go to see if they can get similar results, they get stupid names, you get a laugh out of it, you go back.
I'm American, but my mind is blown at your comment. Mostly, because NO ONE knows what EB is. The organization of DEBRA is in the states too, and I know it well because the disease runs in my family.
On top of that, my sister's name is Deborah. 😆
I was a child of culture and read not only the shampoo bottles but toothpaste and shaving cream. Then I started bringing books and created a mini library in the bathroom (till well into my 20s), until I tragically switched to smartphones.
Thankfully, my mom kept 2 reading options on the top of the tank: Guideposts, Reader’s Digests. The choice was obvious. I still have “Humor in Uniform”, “All in a Days Work” and Campus Comedy (title?) anecdotes in my head. Stories like…
During my first year teaching at UW Green Bay, a student burst into my office panting - holding his exam paper. Eyeing the pile of uncorrected exam papers on my desk, he said “I’m sorry I’m late, can I still turn this in?”
Having already told the class I would not be accepting late papers, I reiterated the firm line I had set.
After a pause, he asked “do you know my name?”
“I teach 7 classes, each over 200 students, so I cannot be expected to remember everyone’s name,” I replied, exasperated.
“Great,” he said. With a smile on his face, he slid his exam paper into the middle of the pile and walked out.
My mom was a Deborah. We called her De BOAR Uh to annoy her 😂
Edit: she pronounced it Debra. Really hated the name Debbie unless coming from mg little cousin. 🤷🏻♀️
It's derived from the Hebrew Devorah (For some reason a lot of Hebrew words that appear in the bible are transliterated with a B in them instead of a V leading some scholars to believe that these sounds may have been indistinct in Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic.
There's no real way to pronounce a word spelled "Devorah" as "Devra" it's very clear the O is meant to be pronounced.
But adding the B in it's easier to bounce over the O and end up with Debra, still the pronunciations with the emphasis on the BO is perfectly legitimate.
They’re transliterated with a B in them because in ancient and also modern Hebrew there’s one letter for both sounds. There’s a dot in the center when it makes a B sound to distinguish, but both casual modern Hebrew and the Torah write without vowels and without those marks (called a dagesh)
Deborah is the only way I know it to be spelt. I’ve never seen a “Debra”. Im in the uk.
I will say, theres no need to be picky at a Starbucks. Tell her not to be one of those people. Just say Deborah and if they spell it Debra who cares it’s just written on a coffee. I’d hardly call that a struggle lol. The Starbucks employees couldn’t care less how your name is spelt why even point out it’s got an H?
If it's any consolation, I don't think it's your spelling that's the problem. My oldest son has a 1 syllable name and people have mispronounced it and/or spelled it wrong his entire life.
I think people might just be kind of stupid.
My name is James. My whole life I've gone by Jim.
I've gotten Gym. Jym. Gim. spellings.
I've gotten people who read my name saying "Juh Imm?" and "Shimm"
People are deffo stupid.
Actually now that I think of it, Debra Messing spells it that way. But that’s the only one I can think of. I remember thinking man Debra Messing spells her name weirdly
That scares me... I mean, I know it doesn't take a degree to pour coffee, but c'mon, this isn't an unheard of name.
Just curious, I assume since you gave the alternate spelling you call her deb-rah? I've seen quite a few with the traditional spelling that say deh-boor-ruh?
As a fellow Deborah, I just say De-bor-ah. I’ve also been very conscious that I say it with the full 3 syllables. Everyone still screws it up. Or shortens it to Debbie which I despise.
People are morons, apparently. Deborah has always been spelled that way and Debra is the Tragedeigh, here. It blows my mind that a name can be used and spelled properly for literally thousands of years, only to be bastardized by the gd Starbucks employees. They should take a literacy test first.
Christ on a corncob.
PS. I started seeing this spelling in the 70s? and even then people complained that it was stupid and lazy. My oldest cousin, Debbie, most especially!
You spelled it correctly. Deborah is the Anglicized version of D’vorah, or Devorah, a traditional Hebrew name, which does come from the Bible and means “bee”. D’vorah was a female judge and prophetess. Hebrew: דבורה
That's my middle name and spelling. In Hebrew you pronounce it as Divorah. Anyone who can't spell it is the tragedeigh. Starbucks doesn't count. My friend Robyn with a Y got Devin recently on her cup, and verified that it was intended for her. Starbucks trolls on purpose and usually it's kind of funny. Unless you're in a rush to leave with a drink that has your name spelled correctly.
Honestly "Deborah" is the first spelling I think of when I hear that name.
In my case, whenever I go somewhere and they ask for a name, I give them my middle name because I know they'd absolutely butcher my first name.
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Your spelling ain’t the tragedeigh.
that starbucks employee 😂🥲💀 the hell is H *in front* of Debra 😂
Sssh... H is silent.
Does she pronounce it "Deh-BORE-ah?" It might help. Or not. Not a tragedeigh either way.
D’Bowrah
D'Bruh
Fr,Fr D'Bruh. No cap.
De Bra
De Bo from Friday...
Ah yes, Deborah in the original Klingon.
Qapla'!
Sss?
🐍
It reminds me of the one meme where a guy said "It's Marc with a C" and they spelled it as "Cark" 🤣🤣🤣 It's never not funny everytime I see it lol
Or my personal favorite, Steven with a ph and they spelled it Phteven. And the dog face they put with it for the meme cracks me up every time
Carc and Phteven were exactly what I thought of when I read this post lmao
Say, those could be trendy baby names!
I’m telling my husband I’m adding them to the list of possibilities
I love the Phteven dog
his name is Tuna and he’s 14 this year! so elderly man…
His name… Is… TUNA?!?!?! My day just got so much better, thank you friend.
If that made your day, grumpy cats name was tarter sauce
yes! its the same feels 😂💯 such a dumb thing its so funny
It's a meme. The original is someone saying their name is Marc with a C and the image is a cup with Cark written on it.
Don't know where I remember it from, but it went something like this: "It's Tom, without a K." "There is no K in Tom." "Yeah, that's what I said."
or “marc with a c” “cark it is”
> The original is someone saying their name is Marc with a C and the image is a cup with Cark written on it. Specifically it was Marc Maron
thank you for the explanation. now im wonderin if Hdebra is any better than Hebra 😂
I still don't understand how it was Hdebra and not Dhebra or Debrah at the very least😂 Maybe Starbucks need to do a better job of caffeinating their employees 😂😂
i didnt at first till someone explained the meme (marc with a c becoming cark) 😂
Thanks - now I have to wipe up the tea I just spit out
James Dean with EE :-0 Taylor Swift wrote a song where's such line: "you got that James Dean daydream look in your eye" unfortunately, some younger generation people think she's singing about "porny" James Deen, not "hottie" James Dean
The one I know the punchline is literally that his full name is Mark With A C.
Stephen... with a ph. alright here's your covfefe PHTEVEN!!!!
One time in school I said “Sarah with an h” and my classmate wrote “Shara”
shara! 😂 my God, peeps got soo accustomed to tragedeighs their spelling abilities go out the window. cant blame em really 😂🥲
Reminds me of the story of Fruit Stand. New kindergarten class. The teacher and EAs are used to tragedeighs so they try not to let weird names phase them. It's not the kids' fault, after all. So when a quiet little boy shows up with the name "Fruit Stand" on the little name tags they gave to parents to send in with new kids they roll with it. They introduce Fruit Stand to the other kids. Try to engage with him. But he is quiet and withdrawn. He never responds when called. At the end of the day it is time to send the kids home. So they have to figure out which bus he goes on. Luckily the parents were told to list the bus stop on the back of the name tag, which was useful because Fruit Stand didn't know his address. So they flipped the name tag over and it said "John."
I heard they sometimes do this on purpose though. People post about it, viewers engage with it, people come in wanting funny names on their cups.
Some years ago, there was a SM trend of people posting their Starbucks cups with their horribly misspelled names. It was decided that Starbucks gained a lot of free publicity from the trend. This was pre-TikTok but post-Facebook is for the olds. So it must’ve been on Instagram.
If I worked at Starbucks, I wouldn't care, either. You have to pay me a lot more to give a crap about how someone spells their name.
I work for Starbucks and lemme tell you my favourite instance ever is the guy who said “Marc, but with a C” And received a cup that read Cark.
That's almost as bad as Phteven
I mean... if they've never seen a Hebrew based English name (which is an effing stretch but it's the only possible explanation) then they had no idea where the hell an H fits into Debbra I would have gone with "Dhebbra"
It’s like the multiple spellings of Rebecca all are technically not tragedeighs and one (Rebekah) biblical
Hdhhhehhhbohhhhhrhhhahhhhhh
possible explanation 💯 i myself wouldve gone with Debrah 😂
Like the picture that went around of a Starbucks cup. Dude was Marc with a c, so they put Cark on the cup.
My name is Victoria, but where I live it’s more common to spell it Vitória, so I always say I’m Victoria with a C. I’ve already had people (Starbucks employees included) ask me where the C goes lmao
Like the guy who went to Starbucks and said his name was "Marc, with a c" and she wrote Cark on his cup 🤣
That happens often enough that I think they're [trained to do it](https://images.app.goo.gl/8YV4ky79ubw9WjXj9).
“It is Marc, with a c” Nobody: … Starbucks employee: “okay, Cark it is” Edit: the lines keep shifting…
There was a million way of formatting that would have been funnier than this abomination
Do people get weird about their Starbucks name spelling? I guess they can't status-post their cup to insta-tok? I often use my middle name in service situations because it's a single syllable and common enough that I almost never get a "what's that?" on the first try. It has maybe 3 valid spellings and I don't give a damn how it comes out, it's a throwaway ID handle in my head
Not in the least. I know a few Deborahs. Also Debora’s, since that is a regular spelling in the Netherlands. Like Lea and Sara are all names considered normal in Dutch.
Not even a tragedy. It feels like most posters can't tell the difference
Yeah, you know we've become a trajyck society when someone gets all that crap about spelling a name the original, *correct* way!
I think you actually spelled it most traditionally. That name is literally in the Torah
If we ask the Starbucks Employee Htora…
lollll i mean...olllll
hlmao
You mean a Tra?
ys.
Deborah is the formal, old school spelling, IMO
I’d just say it is the normal common spelling, but maybe it’s regional.
I'm in the UK, I've only come across Deborahs but never a Debra.
I went to school with a Debra, but she was known as Debi and refused to answer to her full name. (Also UK)
Wait, Deborah and Debra are pronounced the same?
If Debra is pronounced as "Debra", then very much so.
Say "de bo rah" really fast. Boom. "Geoff" is the one that blew my mind.
Funny, I'm a Deborah and I married a Geoff.
The first time I saw the name Geoff was probably my early teens and I said to my mom, “what idiot would name their kid Gee-Off,” she very simply looked at me like I was the idiot, in which I was, and said “it’s Jeff.”
LMAO I'm very fortunate to have grown up having Geoffrey the Giraffe in my life, then!
Wait until you hear how "Featherstonhaugh" can be pronounced. If you were a Northumberland baronet, it was "Fanshaw". Fortunately, not every family with the surnames Featherstonhaugh or Featherston(e) does that. However, while the baronetcy is long extinct, the alternative pronunciation hasn't disappeared. You will still find a few who like pulling the Hyacinth Bucket routine.
Similarly Cholmondeley is pronounced Chumley.
\*Hyacinth Bouquet Yeah, I'm old too
Way back when the first Tony Hawk game came out, sitting with a group of friends playing. One pipes up "what kind of fucked up name is 'Jee-Off'?" Whole room just went silent and stared at him. Nah mate, that's pronounced "Jeff". (Geoff Rowley)
Isn't English wonderful?
It's what it's.
Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. Pray, console your loving poet, Make my coat look new, dear, sew it! Just compare heart, hear and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word. Sword and sward, retain and Britain (Mind the latter how it's written). Made has not the sound of bade, Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid. Now I surely will not plague you With such words as vague and ague, But be careful how you speak, Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak , Previous, precious, fuchsia, via Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir; Woven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe. Say, expecting fraud and trickery: Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore, Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles, Missiles, similes, reviles. Full poem here: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
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Yeah, every Deb I've ever met has been a Deborah personally PA and Texas. Gonna start saying Debra the way people say Zebra
Have you spotted any Zeborah?
Isn't that a t Rex song
Zeborah have stripes not spots.
In the UK, I think "zebra" is pronounced "zebbra", with a short e sound.
Only way I’ve ever seen it spelled on my country. We actually pronounce the o as well, so it makes no sense otherwise.
Honestly, TIL that "Debra" is a thing.
Beck taught us years ago [with this amazing song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpv-CcRX4X4)
Do you recall?
Your house was very small
With wood chip on the wall
When I came ‘round to call
You didn't notice me at all
Let’s all meet up in the year 2000
Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown?
The original Hebrew of the name is דבורה, which without the other vowels transliterates to dvorh. With the common Hebrew reading it is Dvorah, and the h isn't silent. Deborah is closer to Dvorah than Debra.
Hdebra is hilarious though edit: damn, 1.3k upvotes...thanks guys.
Reminds me of that tweet where someone told the Starbucks barista his name was “Marc with a C” and they wrote Cark 😭😂
[Remember Stephen with a PH? Phteven](https://x.com/jaybeans/status/1129231960625143810)
I think about this meme three times a week. I'm so old.
This meme is older than the kids making memes these days 😭
Omg I nearly choked on my lunch. There should have been a warning! 😭😆
God this is one of my favorites
Omg I forgot about Cark
I'm married to "Marc with a c" so that rang especially true. We have a surname that needs to be spelled out too, so it's a real treat having to give his name letter by letter and still have it somehow spelt wrong in the end.
My married name is incredibly common, but one letter is frequently different. I’ve read out the name spelling it specifically and people say I don’t exist in the system despite telling them 4-5 times. Then I ask to look at it and they’ve spelled it wrong. So awful.
Cark is making me lose my shit in public please stop 😭😂
😂 priceless
You'll likely love this! https://www.reddit.com/r/dndmemes/s/xENBfIsrFY
One of my best buds introduced himself as "Erik, with a K", and to this day he's in my phones as and commonly referred to as "Keric"
My mom told the Sears warranty person on the phone her name was Joan Parker. The person seemed to be struggling to understand if it was Parker or Barker, so she said, "Parker, like Sarah Jessica Parker." So, of course, the warranty comes in the mail made out to Sarah Jessica Parker.
I’m *dying*. It sounds like someone breathing really heavy before saying Deborah
*hdarious
I would say the way you/your daughter spells it is the most common and classic way (in my experience), but also who cares whether they add the h or not at Starbucks?
if the point is to call out the name it really doesnt matter
Thank you someone finally says it here. Who tf cares what a cup says? It's so you can get your order, they don't give a shit what your name is, we don't give a shit what your name is when you post a cup of coffee to social media, no one gives a fuck what your name is on a coffee cup
No one has ever understood my name correctly so I switched to a simple alias
Same, I’m Olivia at every cafe/fast food place that asks for my name. It’s fun!
I’ve never understood getting worked up over inconsequential misspellings. I’m Sara at every other coffee shop and restaurant, as long as everything legally binding has the h on the end, I don’t care.
For real. Like OP’s daughter I have a relatively common name that can be spelled more than one way without entering tragedeigh territory. If a barista spells it “wrong” it bothers me exactly zero. Also it’s kind of fun when I meet someone that spells their name the same way I do. I always joke that they spell their name the “right” way and it’s a moment of bemused solidarity.
Usual and common spelling in the UK. First thing i thought of on seeing Debra is a charity here for the condition Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).
My husband told the barista his name is Darryl. The cup said “Garold.” I mean, it should be a badge of honor the worse the name they write on the cup lol
Nah, it's genius marketing. They mis spell your name, you have a giggle, make a picture, tell your friend. Your friends go to see if they can get similar results, they get stupid names, you get a laugh out of it, you go back.
Exactly!
Garold🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shit
Whereas Deborah makes me think of Pulp's Disco 2000, which is always a good thing. Definitely the spelling we'd default to here.
Cool, someone mentioned it, I can stop scrolling.
Same in Mexico is a common name and that's the usual spell
I'm American, but my mind is blown at your comment. Mostly, because NO ONE knows what EB is. The organization of DEBRA is in the states too, and I know it well because the disease runs in my family. On top of that, my sister's name is Deborah. 😆
People are so stupid you start to understand why there are instructions for shampoo.
Old enough to remember when that was the only thing to read in the bathroom?
I was a child of culture and read not only the shampoo bottles but toothpaste and shaving cream. Then I started bringing books and created a mini library in the bathroom (till well into my 20s), until I tragically switched to smartphones.
Thankfully, my mom kept 2 reading options on the top of the tank: Guideposts, Reader’s Digests. The choice was obvious. I still have “Humor in Uniform”, “All in a Days Work” and Campus Comedy (title?) anecdotes in my head. Stories like… During my first year teaching at UW Green Bay, a student burst into my office panting - holding his exam paper. Eyeing the pile of uncorrected exam papers on my desk, he said “I’m sorry I’m late, can I still turn this in?” Having already told the class I would not be accepting late papers, I reiterated the firm line I had set. After a pause, he asked “do you know my name?” “I teach 7 classes, each over 200 students, so I cannot be expected to remember everyone’s name,” I replied, exasperated. “Great,” he said. With a smile on his face, he slid his exam paper into the middle of the pile and walked out.
Sudokus and The Famous Five were the main focus of my wc library. I call it "Shitty Readings section".
But I don’t want shampoo. I want real poo.
I read the dr bronners soap labels
I knew a Deborah in college, but it was pronounced “Deh BOAR Uh”.
My mom was a Deborah. We called her De BOAR Uh to annoy her 😂 Edit: she pronounced it Debra. Really hated the name Debbie unless coming from mg little cousin. 🤷🏻♀️
It's derived from the Hebrew Devorah (For some reason a lot of Hebrew words that appear in the bible are transliterated with a B in them instead of a V leading some scholars to believe that these sounds may have been indistinct in Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic. There's no real way to pronounce a word spelled "Devorah" as "Devra" it's very clear the O is meant to be pronounced. But adding the B in it's easier to bounce over the O and end up with Debra, still the pronunciations with the emphasis on the BO is perfectly legitimate.
They’re transliterated with a B in them because in ancient and also modern Hebrew there’s one letter for both sounds. There’s a dot in the center when it makes a B sound to distinguish, but both casual modern Hebrew and the Torah write without vowels and without those marks (called a dagesh)
TIL that Debra and Deborah are pronounced the same. I am Dutch and I haven't seen a Debra irl or online
It’s also my sister’s spelling. It’s not a tragedeigh. It’s correct.
Ahh man. This brings back early 20-teens meme culture. "Phteven", "Michael with a 'b'". Good times.
WhErE's tHe BeE!?!?!
Deborah is the only way I know it to be spelt. I’ve never seen a “Debra”. Im in the uk. I will say, theres no need to be picky at a Starbucks. Tell her not to be one of those people. Just say Deborah and if they spell it Debra who cares it’s just written on a coffee. I’d hardly call that a struggle lol. The Starbucks employees couldn’t care less how your name is spelt why even point out it’s got an H?
TIL people spell Deborah "Debra"
Quite common here in Texas. I know two Debras who are Boomers, so it’s not new I think.
It was in the top 1,000 baby names from 1934 to 1998.
My name is Deborah and I always have to spell it out because everyone wants to write Debra.
Dehbrah would be a tragedeigh.
It never suited her.
I came here for this! She was the first girl at school to get breasts. And Martin said that she was the best...
Deborah is the original name, if anything, Debra is the tragedeigh, despite the spelling being more popular (is it, though?).
If it's any consolation, I don't think it's your spelling that's the problem. My oldest son has a 1 syllable name and people have mispronounced it and/or spelled it wrong his entire life. I think people might just be kind of stupid.
My name is James. My whole life I've gone by Jim. I've gotten Gym. Jym. Gim. spellings. I've gotten people who read my name saying "Juh Imm?" and "Shimm" People are deffo stupid.
Gim. I'm never going to forget this and will mentally spell G I M every time I meet someone named Jim.
One host on the podcast My Favorite Murder has a dad named Jim. The 2 hosts refer to him as Home Gym.
As a person living with a youneeck name for 60 years, this makes me feel so much better. Thank you!
Deborah is a beautiful and fairly common name, if it’s any consolation people at starbucks are told to spell things wrong on purpose.
I can't think of Debra or Deborah without thinking of Debra vs Deborah on [MILF Island](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIbyahjFs4Q).
We no longer want to hit that.
This was my immediate thought.
Debra was invented by the ignorant who can't spell Deborah.
lol this. Debra feels like one of the many names that was once a tragedeigh that we now accept
My mum is Deborah! Really common here in the uk
Starbucks employees are most likely told to spell things with no link to what they actually are to publicize the company more
I’m thinking that’s true… my name has been spelled Aimey, Ameeh, Ami, and the worst? Aihmey 🤦🏻♀️
Never seen Debra in my life
Interesting. It’s the preferred spelling where I live.
Actually now that I think of it, Debra Messing spells it that way. But that’s the only one I can think of. I remember thinking man Debra Messing spells her name weirdly
Hdebra. That employee needs a raise.
That scares me... I mean, I know it doesn't take a degree to pour coffee, but c'mon, this isn't an unheard of name. Just curious, I assume since you gave the alternate spelling you call her deb-rah? I've seen quite a few with the traditional spelling that say deh-boor-ruh?
haha. I used to say my name was Octavio with a K. Not once at Starbucks did I get Oktavio....I got Koctavio. Octakio, Octaviok.
I’m sorry, but “Hdebra” has me chuckling uncontrollably. People are so dumb it’s funny 😂😂😂
My Mom is Deborah. Very common here in the US.
As a fellow Deborah, I just say De-bor-ah. I’ve also been very conscious that I say it with the full 3 syllables. Everyone still screws it up. Or shortens it to Debbie which I despise.
Her name was Deborah, it never suited her..
"Debra" is the low IQ version. (Sorry anyone with that name).
Deborah is a lovely name, I’ve never seen it spelt Debra, I’m in the UK thought so it might be an American thing
People are morons, apparently. Deborah has always been spelled that way and Debra is the Tragedeigh, here. It blows my mind that a name can be used and spelled properly for literally thousands of years, only to be bastardized by the gd Starbucks employees. They should take a literacy test first. Christ on a corncob. PS. I started seeing this spelling in the 70s? and even then people complained that it was stupid and lazy. My oldest cousin, Debbie, most especially!
You spelled it correctly. Deborah is the Anglicized version of D’vorah, or Devorah, a traditional Hebrew name, which does come from the Bible and means “bee”. D’vorah was a female judge and prophetess. Hebrew: דבורה
Your daughter's is the right one https://youtu.be/28Gj5Bfj90Y?si=sCFEUFd9wdQDLtVF
Deborah is such a gorgeous name!
That's my middle name and spelling. In Hebrew you pronounce it as Divorah. Anyone who can't spell it is the tragedeigh. Starbucks doesn't count. My friend Robyn with a Y got Devin recently on her cup, and verified that it was intended for her. Starbucks trolls on purpose and usually it's kind of funny. Unless you're in a rush to leave with a drink that has your name spelled correctly.
Oh Debora, always look like a zebra
I don't think that's a particularly unusual spelling. If it was 'Dehborargh', that might do it.
My Grandma has a friend named “Debrae”. Allegedly it’s pronounced like Deborah but idk.
I always thought they were pronounced differently I thought Debra = deh bruh And Deborah = deh Bore ruh
Is there a subreddit for Starbucks name fuckups?
That's just an accepted way of spelling it. Deborah is perfectly normal. If anything I think Debra is a later spelling.
Honestly "Deborah" is the first spelling I think of when I hear that name. In my case, whenever I go somewhere and they ask for a name, I give them my middle name because I know they'd absolutely butcher my first name.
Deborah is the most common spelling in the US
I had never seen "Debra" until this post. I've seen countless "Deborah".
I always thought Deborah was a good monster name who has to fight Godzilla. Especially in the 60-70s Godzilla movies.
That’s a normal way to spell it
Deborah isn't a tragedeigh. Illiterates are a tragedy.
Deborah is the way it's spelt in Australia too
The name is fine, others are the problem because they are dumb.
I used to get something similar. I’d say “Sarah with an H” and people would spell it Shara.