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To not use proper spellings when naming your child

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Catterpillarsflipflops · 19/03/2025 18:17

Am I being unreasonable to think it's ridiculous to use a funky spelling of a normal name. I spent today dealing with lost paperwork for a child as the person that took the details didn't think to check the spelling as there is no other spelling of the name.

It looks silly and just causes no end of problems for the child. It also disadvantages them as straight away people get an image of what the child is like.

I've seen

Jaymz
Ezmay
Lil-leigh

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RichardMarxisinnocent · 19/03/2025 23:00

iwentjasonwaterfalls · 19/03/2025 22:51

Dollygeloo used to drive me insane, as does Clanethly now 🤬 Betsy co-ed too.

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Don't get me started on Betsy co-ed!!

tulippa · 19/03/2025 22:59

Mydadsbirthday · 19/03/2025 22:58

This is the Polish spelling of Casper.

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Yes I have already been corrected by multiple people. Thank you. I have learnt something new today. 🙂

EnfysPreseli · 19/03/2025 22:59

Ballygowenwater · 19/03/2025 22:03

Could this be Peigí by any chance? The Irish way of spelling Peggy.

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Pegi is the Welsh spelling.

tulippa · 19/03/2025 22:59

FrodoBiggins · 19/03/2025 22:55

Hope you're at least off the train! Never a wasted journey if you learned something new though I guess...

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Yes, home now and in my pyjamas!

Mydadsbirthday · 19/03/2025 22:58

tulippa · 19/03/2025 18:34

I work somewhere where there is a sign to contact Kacper if you need a certain thing doing. I spent months thinking that's an unusual name until I realised it was a funky spelling of Casper. Parents obviously didn't know the letter c only makes 's' when followed by i, e or y.

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This is the Polish spelling of Casper.

DietQueen2023 · 19/03/2025 22:58

I know a girl called Rylie

Also know an Emma-leigh

🤦‍♀️

FrodoBiggins · 19/03/2025 22:55

tulippa · 19/03/2025 22:50

Must be about 20? Just caught up with a couple more!

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Hope you're at least off the train! Never a wasted journey if you learned something new though I guess...

dontforgetme · 19/03/2025 22:55

What a master class in RTFT. Christ I’ve been in stitches Grin

TurquoiseDress · 19/03/2025 22:54

Reignbeau oh my, there goes my wine! WineGrinWine

TurquoiseDress · 19/03/2025 22:53

YANBU!

”Funky spelling” is a nice way of putting it!

Thedogscollar · 19/03/2025 22:53

Cumberlandsausagedog · 19/03/2025 18:55

This is surely NOT TRUE!

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I have seen this name..I'm a midwife and I literally thought I must be hallucinating when I saw this name on the notes.
I've seen some shockers over the years but Reignbeau is up there with the best of them😂

iwentjasonwaterfalls · 19/03/2025 22:51

EnfysPreseli · 19/03/2025 22:48

😂

That's not how Llay is pronounced. I suppose it's not as bad as those who claim Dolgellau is pronounced Dolly-galloo, or Llanelli pronounced Clanethly.

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Dollygeloo used to drive me insane, as does Clanethly now 🤬 Betsy co-ed too.

tulippa · 19/03/2025 22:50

EmpressaurusKitty · 19/03/2025 22:48

Have you been keeping count, @tulippa?

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Must be about 20? Just caught up with a couple more!

ThisFluentBiscuit · 19/03/2025 22:50

"Youneek" has me howling!

BashfulClam · 19/03/2025 22:50

My mums colleague nagged her son ‘Leeum’ she was not very bright though.

HolidayHattie · 19/03/2025 22:49

I have seen an Auntwan; I assumed the parents liked the name Antoine but hadn't seen it written. Or maybe they had but just preferred a youneek spelling.

tulippa · 19/03/2025 22:49

S18 · 19/03/2025 21:33

It’s the polish spelling 🙄

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Yes I have already been corrected by multiple people. Thank you. I have learnt something new today. 🙂

EmpressaurusKitty · 19/03/2025 22:48

tulippa · 19/03/2025 22:48

Yes I have already been corrected by multiple people. Thank you. I have learnt something new today. 🙂

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Have you been keeping count, @tulippa?

EnfysPreseli · 19/03/2025 22:48

tillytoodles1 · 19/03/2025 19:48

So why's it wrong? Llay is a place near me and its pronounced as Cly.

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😂

That's not how Llay is pronounced. I suppose it's not as bad as those who claim Dolgellau is pronounced Dolly-galloo, or Llanelli pronounced Clanethly.

tulippa · 19/03/2025 22:48

MumofSpud · 19/03/2025 22:32

This is the Polish version rather than a funky version!

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Yes I have already been corrected by multiple people. Thank you. I have learnt something new today. 🙂

PlusOneThousand · 19/03/2025 22:47

tulippa · 19/03/2025 19:59

Think I've already replied to that one! 😀

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I feel very justified in thinking “I will just scroll down to see if anyone else has said this before replying” 😆

tachetastic · 19/03/2025 22:46

Catterpillarsflipflops · 19/03/2025 18:17

Am I being unreasonable to think it's ridiculous to use a funky spelling of a normal name. I spent today dealing with lost paperwork for a child as the person that took the details didn't think to check the spelling as there is no other spelling of the name.

It looks silly and just causes no end of problems for the child. It also disadvantages them as straight away people get an image of what the child is like.

I've seen

Jaymz
Ezmay
Lil-leigh

I'm with you, but then I don't even like it when people give their kids names that (IMO) are abbreviations of proper names. So people that name their kids Ed rather than Edward/Edwin/Edmund or Ellie rather than Eleanor/Elena.

This has come back to bite me as DS refuses to use the very old fashioned (but correct) spelling of his name that we chose, and instead uses the only possible shortening of his name that I hate. I totally support that what he wants to be called is up to him and I go along with it, but there is 5% (10%?) of me that thinks I wouldn't have named you A if I had known you were going to pick B.

🤐

ThisFluentBiscuit · 19/03/2025 22:44

Ponoka7 · 19/03/2025 22:40

We are one tiny island. There's a big world outside our shores, with different languages and spellings.
These threads always turn racist, though. All names and languages are made up. Names from the black community in the US were unique, because they'd been forced to forget their language, but didn't want use the names their owners decided to give them. They worked with the knowledge they had.
Why posters haven't googled the names before posting a lot of them, Is a mystery. A lot of the names in these threads always contain valid 'proper' names, they just aren't traditional white British.

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How did we get from a silly spelling of Curtis to racism?

If Coeurtis is a name and spelling common in the Black community then I apologise. I just thought it was one of these Tradgedeigh spellings.

Bumpitybumpbumplook · 19/03/2025 22:43

My fav is a girl called: Trendy

LaTable · 19/03/2025 22:41

This thread absolutely got my goat to float.
I'm so glad at least one person learned something new today too....