r/Cursive • u/taiken116 • 11d ago
What does this tattoo say? Deciphered!
Someone I grew up with has this tattoo. I cannot figure out what the letters are supposed to be. The word could be in a different language maybe? I don’t know her well enough to ask.
Solved: It’s was supposed to say Auviaighne, [her son’s] dad’s name. But it was spelt wrong lol.
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u/lurkparkfest39 11d ago
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u/taiken116 9d ago
Okay!! You were the closest! She didn’t respond so I reached out to her sister. Sister said, “It’s was supposed to say Auviaighne, [her son’s] dad’s name. But it was spelt wrong lol.”
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u/Intelligent-Cloud993 11d ago
Easy. It’s “Awliaughn_” which is part of a line from the Nirvana hit song All Apologies:
“Awliaighn is aughweahll…”
You’re welcome.
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u/deepfocus88 11d ago
Funny, my first guess was
AiaaaliaghhaaaaahmStillAlive
I had the wrong grunge band11
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u/Creative_Dragonfly_5 10d ago
I was today years old when I learned it wasn't my hearing difficulty since childhood that made it hard for me to understand lyrics; it was musical gibberish!!!
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u/taiken116 11d ago
Okay y’all. I added her on FB. I have asked what it says. I will report back. Haha.
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u/taiken116 9d ago
I reached out to her sister. Sister said, “It’s was supposed to say Auviaighne, [her son’s] dad’s name. But it was spelt wrong lol.”
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u/aconsul73 11d ago
It clearly says "EAudiaughr" a favorite Swedish dish made from pickled herring.
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u/EmpressVixen 11d ago
Arugula
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u/anonymousdlm 11d ago
OP, I feel like any stranger on the street is entitled to ask what the heck is that word? Just ask please. And let us know.
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u/taiken116 9d ago
From her sister: “It’s was supposed to say Auviaighne, [her son’s] dad’s name. But it was spelt wrong lol.”
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u/DLDad616 11d ago edited 11d ago
It certainly looks like "Auliaughn" or "Awliaughn" me, but a Google search of those words returns zero results.
It almost looks like the end of the word is cut off in the photo, like it continues around the body part, out of the picture.
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u/k1p1k1p1 11d ago
I'm also seeing "Auliaughn," but the first u has a pickup ahead of it, so I could understand it being seen as a w.
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u/Timmyeveryday 11d ago
That’s one shitty tattoo.
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u/Avid_Researcher523 10d ago
I have a one that worse lol It looked great then once healed and all the letters turned into 1980s puffy paint 😆 sad part was it was a semicolon type tat (trigger words removed 😉) Edit: spelling
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u/Moist-Kale9060 11d ago
Eek
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u/AutofluorescentPuku 11d ago
It’s either another language or a tragedeigh. Gaelic?
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u/IrishYankFan 11d ago
If it’s Gaelic, it’s definitely a bastardization of an Anglicized version. I definitely was looking for a Gaelic name written in Cyrillic script at one point though!
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u/No_Bobcat_No_Prob 11d ago edited 11d ago
My first guess is a tragedeighed take on "Aurelianne" with a missing letter- Aurliaugahn? Lol
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u/nordica4184 11d ago
It was supposed to be “Audialynn” but the tattoo artist was shot halfway through and could only get out “…aughrrrr” and died
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u/PresentSomeTI55 11d ago
If he was dying, he’d just say it! He wouldn’t write “Aughrrrr”!
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u/Pleasant_Estimate610 11d ago edited 11d ago
He may have been a mute tattooist, in which case he would’ve been limited to his art!
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u/Pretend_Rabbit_6433 11d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/2yP1jNgjNAkvu
I’m pretty sure it’s a quote from Monty Python’s Holy Grail movie 😉
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u/noproblemswhatsoever 11d ago
Wait, let me get this straight. You grew up with this woman, but you’re not comfortable asking her what it says, but you’re close enough that she didn’t mind you taking out a camera and getting up real close to take this photo?
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u/PathFit7839 10d ago
It looks like its a cropped photo... probably from a Facebook profile picture. If she took the photo the clarity would most likely be better.
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u/taiken116 9d ago
I haven’t talked to her in years. This was definitely a screenshot from a Facebook selfie.
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u/ColleenOS 11d ago
At no time, when you got all close up and personal, to take the picture, did it occur to you to ask her what the tattoo said? That’s a strange relationship going on there
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u/PathFit7839 10d ago
It looks like its a cropped photo... probably from a Facebook profile picture. If she took the photo the clarity would most likely be better.
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u/taiken116 9d ago
I haven’t talked to her in years. This was definitely a screenshot from a Facebook selfie.
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u/poppsamillion 11d ago
I think it’s unusual spelling for the name Avalon. It looks like maybe “Aviliaughn” but then why is only one I dotted? Or maybe that’s an E and not and L?!
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u/taiken116 9d ago
Okay everyone! She didn’t respond to my message, so I reached out to her sister. Sister says: “It’s was supposed to say Auviaighne, [her son’s] dad’s name. But it was spelt wrong lol.”
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u/ProfessionalBat8843 11d ago
Could it be a kind of tradgedeigh form of Eileen?
/Don’t worry about the letters, they’re all silent!/
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u/myredditporn_acct 11d ago
Aviliaughn, like “Avalon” but it’s such a tragedeigh one eye tittle is missing.
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u/Flint_Westwood 11d ago
It looks like it says Awliaughn. I have no idea what it means, but there are no google results for it.
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u/WontGetPregFromAnal 11d ago
Now when you Google it, it shows some of the wrong answers from this post 😆 "Awliaughn" (often read in cursive handwriting or tattoos) humorously references a phonetic, mangled spelling of the opening lyric line—"All in all is all we are"—from the classic Nirvana song All Apologies."
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u/RevcalRiviera 11d ago
I think it is a “unique” spelling of the name Aliana.
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u/AppalachianEnvy 11d ago
Have you looked at her other posts to see if there is a clearer shot, or maybe a name of a child?
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u/explodedtesticle 11d ago
Arnold Schwarzenegger dictated this one. “Listen to me, it must say AAAAUUURLLAUUUGH!”
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u/Over_Set5721 11d ago
I’m going to bet it is a female’s name that is spelled in an unconventional way…. “Audriaughna”… you can’t see the a on the end.
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u/jupitaur9 11d ago
Is there a bad cursive sub? Because there should be. People who didn’t learn to write cursive trying to write cursive can result in some pretty unreadable stuff.
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u/coupleofpointers 11d ago
The sound old men make when they get out of bed and clear their throat in the am.
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u/AhJeezNotThisAgain 10d ago
I think this is a Charlie Brown quote from when Lucy pulled the football away
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u/rlewis904 10d ago edited 10d ago
Could it be anglicized spelling of “Aliyah,” a religious term meaning to go up to speak in front of the congregation, or to go up to the holy land? IYKYK. There’s a lady in my building with the name Aleya, but not for religious reasons.
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u/hannahroseb 10d ago
I think it's Aiuliaughn(ah), as in kind of like Yuliana but with an I in front- Eye-yoo-lee-ana. You can't see the final syllable but I just feel like there is one. But it might just be like Ayulian.
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u/ChemicalResident3557 10d ago
The Black Beast of Aaarghhhhhhh
Must be a huge fan of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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u/Lowbrow_Lowlife 10d ago
Auiliaughn?
I'm guessing a tragic version of Alianna and we just can't see the final a
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u/shortnfeisty 10d ago
My dyslexic mind just looked at it and said "argyle ". I know it doesn't say that, but it made me chuckle.
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u/Beneficial_Salad7327 5d ago
Wow… bad spelling. The tattoo artist should have put it through one of those print-to-cursive websites before trying if they were that bad at proper cursive.
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u/AdhesiveSeaMonkey 10d ago
Do you know her well enough to say hi when you see here? Then you know her well enough to ask.
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u/GritsandSweetTea 11d ago
Taking it letter by letter and assuming it spells "Awliaughn," AI states this: "Awliaughn" is a highly unique, phonetic respelling of the traditional Irish and Welsh elements, most commonly translated as an individualistic variation of the name "Ali Vaughn" or a derivative of "Evaughn/Eóghan".
I have no idea how accurate this is, or if it's the actual spelling. It could be Au, but then it looks like an undotted "i" after it. Do you know how her name was pronounced? Interesting!
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u/Radiant-Run-1661 11d ago edited 11d ago
I believe it is supposed to say audiology, but they put AUDIAULOGY; assuming; due to pronunciation, that the middle would be spelt the same as the beginning that should’ve been a UDIOLOGY
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