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Is it "Thelonious" or "Thelmoious"? (hear-me.social)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by GenuinelyCurious@hear-me.social to c/music@lemmy.world

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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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[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

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