Is it "Thelonious" or "Thelmoious"?
Is it "Thelonious" or "Thelmoious"?
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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I feel like I'm having a seizure reading this. Please fix the spelling of what you are trying to ask.
via Wikipedia
see also: Straight, no chaser : life and genius of Thelonious Monk by Gourse, Leslie
Monk is a legend. I didn't realize there was a discrepancy on his birth certificate. TIL.
@gedaliyah
Sorry, I fixed the original question. Is it Thelonious or Thelmoious?
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.