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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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[–] GenuinelyCurious@hear-me.social -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@foggy

Then why is it "Thelonious" on his album covers?

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Then why is it "Thelonious" on his album covers?

Because that is how it is spelled.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk_discography

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.)

[–] GenuinelyCurious@hear-me.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

@foggy So are you saying his stage name ins “Thelonious”?

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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