Is it “Thelonious” or “Thelmoious”?

I can’t find any good articles discussing the reasons for the differences in the spelling of Monk’s first name/stage name. His wiki page says his birth name is “Thelious Monk Jr.”

Surely someone has written about this, right?

EDIT: I forgot I was using a Firefox extension that swaps “Elon” to “Elmo” and I guess it was doing it within words too. LOL

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      1 month ago

      What the fuck am I reading lmao? I think this is my favorite thread on lemmy so far.

      (Context: when I left this comment the title was not fixed, it still said “Is it Thelomious or Thelomious” despite the comment saying they fixed it lol.)

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        21 month ago

        I am saying his name was always “Thelonious” and never any other name or spelling.