To not use proper spellings when naming your child

Saw this in the mirror today on fb.

Teachers back then could be horrible cunts, I might have mentioned one or two thousand times that I am a teacher but things have changed so much, thank christ

They do this in Germany. They have huge books full of names. If a foreign name isn't in their lists the parents can provide evidence that it's a normal/traditional name in their culture. My cousin was born in Germany and has a foreign name. Her parents had to get a certificate stating that her name is a common, female name in that culture. It was then accepted and she was registered with that name.

@Scorchio84 she was indeed a stupid batch! How the hell she became a HT was beyond us.
There were numerous occasions of her insisting she was right when she was wrong. She once told me to check my facts as I"d told the pupils that Vesuvius was on the Italian mainland when "It's on Sicily". I told her that as I'd climbed it the previous summer I was well aware of its location.

She never, ever apologised for anything as she'd been told that you never apologise for anything when you're a HT.

It would be awful @JHound I mean like every year the most popular names lists are published& it's the usual top 5 suspects but there's other names that make a comeback, the Nelly's or Ruby's or Ted's that I find just charming

No one should legislate for names no matter how much we all side eye or eye roll

My name is very unusual but I am glad I have it and would not have wanted government officials telling my parents to give me a nice English approved name instead!

She must be one of those people who will go through life never realising how much people are cringing for her and laughing at her behind her back! Cerys is a common name, but I've never ever heard of anybody called Serys.

She reminds me of a certain celebrity on The Wright Stuff (the precursor to Jeremy Vine on Five) who berated people for pronouncing the first word of Plaid Cymru to rhyme with the English word 'side'. She was bizarrely insistent that it should somehow be 'Plaidd' (to rhyme with 'scythe'). A little knowledge......

She's actually Welsh as well, but has lived in England for a very long time.

Oh NO!!!! I love that name, it's beautiful & has a lovely meaning too (I'm not Welsh) what a stupid bitch! 😡

BeholdOurButterStinketh · Yesterday 20:43

I saw a photo on TwiX where a man had ordered a coffee at Starbucks and given his name as "Marc - with a C" - and then, when he got his drink, it had 'Cark' written on it

There's a poster on MN called MarkWithaC...

Strangest name I ever came across was "Lisma" pronounced like Lisa with a random M in it. The child was around 10 so I checked our paperwork and it was definitely Lisma.
I casually asked the Mum about it and she said she liked Lisa but thought it was boring and too common.

We had a new girl enrolled at our school called Cerys and the HT was adamant it was Serys. She was the sort of person who always had to be right and no amount of telling from the rest of us would convince her otherwise.

It wasn't until the parents complained that she conceded. Even then it was "Apparently her name is Cerys, even though it should be Serys" 🙄

As much as my eyes roll every September with our new recruits I absolutely agree, who's business really if it's spelled Kayden, Caiden or Kaydhen? (just examples, I have no issues with this name) My son's Irish name has a few different spellings but no one bats an eyelid & it speaks to a bit of snobbiness

That's a nice Welsh name, I love "Cerys" for a girl & if I had have been lucky enough to have another baby & she so happened to be a girl it's what I would have chosen

Sorry couldn't resist.

105 posts left to go on this thread. How many will tell us that Kacper is Polish?

I think, a lot of us have learnt something new. There will be a lot of kacpers born in the uk in the next few years. 😊

I saw a photo on TwiX where a man had ordered a coffee at Starbucks and given his name as "Marc - with a C" - and then, when he got his drink, it had 'Cark' written on it

Well it works perfectly well in quite a few countries. I'm sure they add new ones from time to time.

I once taught a little girl with a very odd name. Seemingly the parents had lived in England when she was born. The registrar hadn't understood their Scottish accent and had written what he thought they said on the birth certificate then said it couldn't be changed.
Poor child.

Oh come on, surely you could have stretched to Marque?

I really don’t think giving government that level of power is ever preferable.

Who decides what makes the list? How does it handle foreign names?

Daft idea.

If I see the word “youneek” on this thread one more time I think I might scream…

@JHound I think it's preferable to saddling kids with batshit names.

I once knew a Que. It had been a name in a 70s show. Poor child.

That's why I can barely believe it was actually true - and I wonder if she thought in a moment of madness "Wouldn't this be crazy?!" and then tried to sell it to Take a Break as if it were actually true"

Imagine everybody seeing your name for the first time, pausing to wonder what on earth it was, and then guessing at something that sounded like Kveeeeeeen. You don't even have any way of knowing that the last letter before the Y is an L, what with it following three Is!

OMG that's awful! 😂 KVIIIllyn to say 'K(8)lynn.' Top tier batshit!

That’s an awful autocratic idea. I like that about the UK. I think individual registrars should be able to refuse names but who decides what is acceptable to put on a list and what is not? I think our love of eccentricity and individualism is a trait to be proud of.