'My friend wants to name her baby after an STI - she's making a big mistake'

A woman has angered her friend after pointing out the real meaning behind a baby name she loves.

In a post on Reddit, the anonymous woman explained that her pal, who is five months pregnant, often shares potential baby names with their friend group - and the most recent is a little unusual.

"Yesterday we all got together to hang out and she told us her latest favourite. Chlamydia," she revealed.

Apparently, the mum-to-be has been obsessed with the name ever since reading The Odyssey in school and always liked her Greek Mythology stories.

Realising that her friend was referring to the character Clytemnestra, she corrected her, but this only annoyed the mum.

The mum-to-be didn't believe her when she pointed out her mistake (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

For more of the news you care about, straight to your inbox, sign up for one of our daily newsletters here.

"So I interrupt her and go, 'Wait, you mean Clytemnestra not Chlamydia. Right?'

"And she's all, 'No, I meant Chlamydia.'"

After a quick Google search proved that she was right, the friend backed down - but she was noticeably annoyed for the rest of the night.

When the Reddit poster went home that night, she received a long text from the mum, calling her a "bad friend" for "embarrassing her in front of everyone."

"She says I could have brought it up in private and didn't need to be so condescending about it.

"She was just talking about a name she liked and I made her feel like an idiot."

The woman said she ignored the text, as she thought her friend was being an "idiot," for basing her child's name on a book she hadn't read in years and mixing it up with an STI.

"A simple google search before getting so attached to the name would have solved the problem before there was one," she said.

But then she started getting texts from the other girls in the group telling her how upset the mum was and how she should apologise.

"I don't think I have anything to apologise for, and besides, they were perfectly happy to sit there and let her think her std baby name would be a good choice," she continued.

"Imagine how embarrassed she would have been after she found the mistake later and realised that none of her friends had the decency to tell her the truth."

She concluded her post by asking Reddit users whether she was in the wrong but the majority said she did the right thing.

One person said: "You didn’t embarrass her - every single person within earshot already clocked her mistake - you were the only person decent enough to correct her."

Another wrote: "If she's old enough to be pregnant, she should be old enough to know what chlamydia is. She embarrassed herself."

While a third commented: "You were the only real friend there if no one else was gonna say anything."

Have you got a story to share? We want to hear all about it. Email us at yourmirror@mirror.co.uk