Ignorance On Display

I was reading this piece over at Louder With Crowder about a college student who presented her senior thesis in inappropriate attire, when I encountered this gem from the author:

By the by, Professor Maggor’s first name is Rebekah. Which is just a dumber way of spelling “Rebecca.” So Rebekah got to correct people her entire life on how to spell her name because mommy and daddy wanted people to think they were creative. No. However it’s spelled, Rebekah is a name better associated with people who have front holes instead of wangs.

Now, generally I like Courtney's works, but find a few things that a good copy-editor would catch and correct. I usually don't say anything because drawing attention to it is not worthwhile. But this is more than a typographical error, or the selection of the wrong homophone. This is the result of the loss of our shared culture. The name Rebekah appears in the King James Version of the Bible where she is the wife of Isaac, and the mother of Jacob and Esau. This means that the name has a history in English dating back to at least the early seventeenth century. It's not just an arbitrary spelling of the name Rebecca.

This is less of an example of ignorance than the item being commented on in the piece, but it does not present the author in a very good light. And it fully illustrates Muphry's Law.