• @gedaliyahEnglish
    12•3 days ago

    I feel like I’m having a seizure reading this. Please fix the spelling of what you are trying to ask.

    Thelonious Sphere Monk was born on October 10, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of Thelonious (or Thelious) and Barbara Monk. His sister, Marion, had been born two years earlier. His birth certificate spelled his first name as “Thelious” and did not list his middle name, taken from his maternal grandfather, Sphere Batts.

    via Wikipedia

    see also: Straight, no chaser : life and genius of Thelonious Monk by Gourse, Leslie

    • @[email protected]English
      1•3 days ago

      Monk is a legend. I didn’t realize there was a discrepancy on his birth certificate. TIL.

      • @gedaliyahEnglish
        2•2 days ago

        After the correction, I have no answer for you. “Thelmoious” returns zero web search results. No one here has ever heard this name or seen this spelling before you posted this question. I assumed it was a typo.

        • I've got questionsOP
          2•1 day ago

          @gedaliyah OMG. I figured it out.

          I was using a Firefox extension that was changing “Elon” to “Elmo”… I didn’t put a space before and after “Elon” in the prompt, so it was changing it everywhere. Even within words.