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Names with strange spellings

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Dolcelatte · 01/08/2012 21:52

I sent a birthday card to the friend of a daughter today then felt bad because I realised that I had addressed her as Sarah Jane instead of Sarah Jayne. I also know of an Allison and a Michele etc.

AIBU to wonder if you think this is an attempt at individuality or just a bit weird?

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TandB · 02/08/2012 08:17

I think ridiculous spellings are unfair on the child but some people on this thread have a pretty low threshold!

Katrina, Jayne, Conor, Jaime, Marc etc are all entirely normal and accepted spellings. I have come across people of my age (mid 30s) with all those names, so they are not exactly new fads!

And I'm pretty sure Ysabel is an accepted spelling, so Ysabella isn't that out there.

RubyVaultingGates · 02/08/2012 08:13

I'm not sure which is worse, calling your child Cinderella, or then spelling it wrong. I don't if anyone knows that's her name though as she gets called Sindy.

RubyVaultingGates · 02/08/2012 08:12

I know Sindorella.

conorsrockers · 02/08/2012 08:06

Naoimh isn't it?!

DizzyGoldBee · 02/08/2012 07:53

I love the name Niamh but I've seen it as Neeve which annoys me.

conorsrockers · 02/08/2012 07:48

MargeryKemp - we may have moved on a bit, and it's been pointed out already, but please do a little research before you accuse the name Conor of being butchered. It is a Gaelic name and is spelled correctly, and although I doubt my son will be a high court judge I resent you assuming it is less unlikely because I didn't call him Charles or bloody George.... Grin

UnderwaterBasketWeaving · 02/08/2012 07:43

Yeah, I've just checked that too. The sun is Il Sole...

Tee2072 · 02/08/2012 07:40

Yeah. That would mean the moon...

kirsty75005 · 02/08/2012 07:35

@tasja. Isn't La Luna "the moon" in Italian ? And "Il Sole" the sun ?

sheepsgomeeping · 02/08/2012 07:32

Two of my dc have unusual spellings. I love pointing out to ignorant people that both are perfectly legitimate welsh and Irish versions of two popular anglicised names when they ask me why I chose those spellings.

tasjaSAmuminSA · 02/08/2012 07:31

My DD's name is La Luna (2 words) because it means The Sun in Italian. some people writes it Laluna. I don't have a problem with it. I do however have a problem with MIL who knows how to write her name but writes it
La-luna. It was just different for me and I love it. Nobody has the same name as DD as far as I know.

HugeMedalTally · 02/08/2012 07:30

To me, Robyn is the feminine spelling. I have a male cousin called Robin.

ivykaty44 · 02/08/2012 07:30

I changed the spelling of my daughter names after I received about 50 congratulation cards with and 99% had an alternative spelling. I couldn't put her through life having to spell her name each time and so although at the hospital I had the nurse write her name on her tags one way - when I registered her birth I choice the way that 49 people out of 50 had spelt the name on the congratulation cards

JumpingThroughHoops · 02/08/2012 07:24

You do get some bizarre names from other cultures.

Sisters, Rejoyce and Confidence, Mum is Happiness and aunt is Blessed. I also know Godknows Hmm

BlackholesAndRevelations · 02/08/2012 07:23

Good grief at "Demonic"......

dollywashers · 02/08/2012 07:19

I taught a May'c!!! Yes that's an apostrophe in a name. Poor child. She even spelt out her name m-a-y-apostrophe-c.

MrsHelsBels74 · 02/08/2012 07:11

Having spent my entire non-married life having to spell my surname as people always spell it wrong, these people with strange spellings have my sympathy, it IS very annoying, especially when you spell your name & watch someone write it down wrong anyway! Angry

Tee2072 · 02/08/2012 07:08

43 years ago when I was born in the US my name was unusual. It's Robyn. I was even accused, more than once, of changing the spelling when I was a teenager to be 'cool'. Um, no, my mom and dad chose that spelling.

43 years later I see the name everywhere.

Names evolve along with language, culture, food etc.

blueberryboybait · 02/08/2012 07:07

I had an e-mail from a Douglass this morning, I assumed he hadn't spell checked but no, the letter and info on his website confirm he is Douglass!

kirsty75005 · 02/08/2012 07:01

I was about to say that Tomasz is Hungarian, but it seems that it's actually east european.

GrumpyOldWomanToo · 02/08/2012 06:34

The wierdest spelling I've seen is VernL, yes, that's a capital L at the end. It is pronounced VerNELL.

JumpingThroughHoops · 02/08/2012 06:30

Sharlot.

I mean. What is that all about?

BenjiAndTheTigers · 02/08/2012 06:20

Used to work with a girl who had a really strange spelling of her name.

Lots of extra letters.

We used to call her Alphabet. Then shortened to Al. Most newcomers thought her name must be Alice or Alison.

I gues in this day and age, this would be regarded as a form of bullying or harassment.
She still goes by the name of Al.

Spuddybean · 02/08/2012 06:05

When growing up there was a boy i was friends of friends with. I bumped into him when we were about 19 and he had his new little girl with him. He introduced her as Dominique. Then proceeded to show me the tattoo he'd had with her unusually spelled name...'Demonic'...

Erm, nice, was all i could muster.

sashh · 02/08/2012 04:14

I changed mine from the crappy 'unique' spelling I was aflicted with at birth.

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