This Pediatric Nurse Has A Hilarious Story About Pronouncing A Little Boy’s Name Wrong
While being a pediatric nurse can be rewarding, it’s also probably one of the best jobs to have in order to hear the craziest parenting stories.
That’s certainly true for creator @lindsey_56785678, who often has trouble pronouncing children’s names when they come into her office.
“I am a pediatric nurse, and I am from the deep, deep south,” Lindsey explained. “So I butcher everybody’s name.”
The only way she is able to confidently pronounce names correctly is if they are “super simple, like Ben or Sally.”
With this in mind, she goes on to discuss one incident that happened in her office where she read a little boy’s name, Liam, on the patient chart.
A name that seems simple– it’s common and, more often than not, is pronounced the same way. Except for this time.
“I see a kid’s name on our computer, and I say, ‘Oh, Liam. I’ve got this. L-I-A-M. Liam. Easy,'” she said. “I go out, call the kid’s name. Nobody moves.”
This is odd, being that there normally aren’t any variations on the pronunciation of Liam, especially since it’s already short for William.
TikTok; pictured above is Lindsey in her video
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“Call ’em again; nobody moves,” she repeats. “Finally, this mom stands up and says, ‘Do you mean Y-U-M?’.”
While Lindsey clarified that “Yum” isn’t what she said and that it doesn’t match the name “Liam” on the list, she still gets backlash from the mother that she never expected.
“Yeah,” the mother says to her. “It’s short for William.”
But there’s one difference in pronunciation here. You probably read that as most would: William. Maybe, to get the tone across, it should be spelled more like this: Will-Yum.
That is what the mother thought she nicknamed her son. Since in some southern dialects, “William” is emphasized on the last syllable, it comes out more like “Willium,” with the “u” hypothetically replacing the “a.”
It is because of this that the mother thought the nickname “Liam” was genuinely pronounced like the ending of “William” in a southern accent: “Yum.”
Lindsey said no more after this, ending the video with her eyes closed in disbelief.
Out of every name that parents invent for their children, never did it cross my mind that “Liam” would become “Yum.” I guess there’s a first time for everything.
You can watch Lindsey’s original video here.
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