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Baby names
: I think I win the prize for the most craziest spelling of a first name ever -
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Another cracker I know is Chellea (instead of Shelly). It appeared on an invitation to a party and I had to keep saying the name over to myself until I deciphered it.
Lucimai - which I like once I got over the surprise at spelling, the other children in the family have usual speelings - and Kaileigh which a teenager spelled out to me with a resigned expression.
Does anyone else think all these Abbees and Kaileighs and Aimais and Bynjymyns (ok, I'm just making them up now ) will grow up and have children called Tom and Bill and Fred and Ann
I had a girl called Aimee in class, there was also an Amy as well so we called Amy ... Amy and Aimee we pronounced Aymaaaaay, I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be the normal pronunciation though and her parents had just ponced it up!
I have a very different first name in RL that people usely can't say and most deffenlty can't spell! so my ds has a nice tridional name: Thomas shorted to Tom as a result of me having to repeat, repeat and repeat my name and how to say it to new people let alone having to spell it over the phone.
Slayerette - sils dd is called Ellie. For her first birthday I was asked to get her an Ellie Coat. Turned out she meant ELLE coat.... They have ELLE in huge letters round the bottom and SIL seemed to think it would be the same as her dd's name. Not sure whether she is dim enough not to have noticed the different spelling, or dim enough to think that Elle is pronounced Ellie.
He was a wonderful performer - saw him dance in a school show. I think he'll rise above it. Look out for him in the next couple of years at a theatre near you!
Yes, I thought Aimee was an accepted spelling as well. I also know of an Elle pronounced Ellie. I have obvioulsy heard of the name Keira but have also seen it spelt Khera which doesn't look correct to me but am willing to be told off
My dd is Phoebe and the amount of people who spell it Pheobe. and yes, we did have someone spell it feebie once. I presume Sapphron is meant to be pronounced Saffron but surely as there are two p's in there it doesn't make the ffffff sound? If you are going to give your child an normal name, don't change the spelling. It will just annoy them forever!
Collision - do you mean Jorja Fox as in the actress (CSI), or someone else? If someone else then maybe it is a recognised spelling (seeing as that would mean there is more than one IYSWIM)
Yeah, don't really like the name Georgia, however you spell it. Agree Jorja is a bit wierd though - took me ages to work out if it was supposed to be pronounced like that or if it was Hispanic - ie horha
The local paper has a baby of the year competition every year. It's a hoot to buy the edition that all the pictures appear in just to laugh at some of the names
What about Sofee.... (Sophie) ok I made that up but I do know a lady called Graeme(pronounced Grame) she hates it and is in her late 50's now. She named her children straight forward clear names as a result as she didnt want her children growing up with the same problems...everyone pronounces it as Graham!!
DH taught a Jaxon. Not sure if it was intentional or if his mum thought that was how 'Jackson' was spelt.
I've mentioned this one before but he also had a boy start whose admittance form said C.I.D Smith. School secretary phoned his mum to ask what the C.I.D stood for.
A friend of mine is a paediatrician and recently had a little boy called T-J in her clinic. When she asked what the initials stood for she was told that it wasn't short for anything and his name was T-J.
I do the same as MM and buy local paper when beautiful baby comp is in it, some of the names just make me pmsl!
I know a TJ, a Jak, a Chardonnay and a Shakira. Oh yes, its chav central near where I live! But my personal fave- Djaq (Jack) (PMSL at Anerki in the UK)
How I love all these phonetic spellings. Can't work out whether these parents are trying to be different, trendy or are just as thick as pigshit.
My personal favourite is a kid I know called Porsher. I can forgive her mother for not being a Shakespeare aficionado (don't get many quoting the Bard round our way) but if you're going to name her after a German car, get the spelling right, FFS. Can't wait to hear the name of her next-born...Owdi?? Mursaydeez??
I used to work as a Drs receptionist and some of the names were just spelt wrongly as parents really had no idea i think. But the best one i heard was Shannade as in Sinead.
I just feel sorry for the child who will be forever having to spell it out.
A friend in Glasgow told me a tale once of meeting a woman in the doctors' waiting room who said her child was called 'whyvonee' She'd seen it written down. Can you guess how it was spelled?
i know an Emer (pronounced eeeemer) and an oisin (pronounced oshin) both are irish though! My daughter is Alex-Leigh, didnt mean for it to be double like that but in hospital despite being in pink she kept getting mistaken for a boy! the Leigh spelling was cos it looked more feminine that Lee
well we all know of a grown up and v powerful woman called CONDOLEEZZA which is apparently a misspelling of "CON DOLCEZZA" which is an operatic term- app her parents where opera aficionados but somewhere along the way the spelling got a bit wonky (and tbh even Condolcezza would have been a bit of a joke!)
I give you.... Benay because the parents liked the sound of JonBenet's name... but not its connotations... They are still there people!!!! Why oh why name your child after a little girl who was not only murdered but probably pimped around in vegas showgirl outfits by her parents? To me it is the epitome of ick. (actually come to think of it JonBenet is even worse, all faux french and pretentious)
New child today at playgroup.
