Page 34 | To not use proper spellings when naming your child

Gotthemoozles · 19/03/2025 19:01

Pretty sure some of these are made up / urban legends.
I work in maternity and you wouldn't believe the number of obstetricians who claim to have delivered La-a. There must have been an entire medical school present at her birth.

jacktheladess · 19/03/2025 19:01

Jewlee anyone? 🙄

MrsSunshine2b · 19/03/2025 19:01

Feelingstrange2 · 19/03/2025 18:52

It's hilarious

And they are always the Mums that complain about people spelling their DCs name wrong.

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Or trying to insist you use their whole double/triple barrelled name.

"Uh, her name is not Lily, it's Lyllee-Maebelynne-Pixieboo."

SpringIsSpringing25 · 19/03/2025 19:01

rosydreams · 19/03/2025 18:32

=p

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Brilliant!!

@Catterpillarsflipflops

Geneefur

Rufus27 · 19/03/2025 19:00

BarneyRonson · 19/03/2025 18:51

Nearly all your friends have adopted unsafe children with names that need tweaking? Where is this happening that there are clusters of unsafe adopted children all in the same social circle? And they have names that can be rendered safe by spelling changes.
lovely that the people close to you are understanding of your situation as they are in the same situation.

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Not sure if you’re being goady or naive, but I will reply . No, my friends dont all have DC with names that have been changed to protect the child. Within my friendship and work groups (which happen to include many people related to adoption in some way) I can think of four DC in this situation. With my DC, we changed an initial letter. Social services suggested this. It makes the name less searchable on social media (ours looks like a totally different name by simply changing a letter). It’s not fail safe, but it at least helps keep DC safe. It’s one of a number of strategies recommend to us. I won’t expand for obvious reasons.

100PercentFaithful · 19/03/2025 19:00

You-niq spellings make me cringe. The poor kids.

MidnightMillie · 19/03/2025 19:00

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MementoMountain · 19/03/2025 19:00

MidnightMillie · 19/03/2025 18:56

I wouldn't assume that.

I'm Irish and for many years a lot of us have been moving away from Gaelic spellings.

I have a cousin named Shinaed and she's in her late 40s.

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Oh lord.

I have a cousin Siobhan. My late beloved granny forever spelt it Chyvonne if she had to write it down, but would read it out from her Christmas cards as "that Sy-ban'.

I did sometimes wonder if she thought they were different people.

JillAndJenTheFlowerpotMen · 19/03/2025 18:59

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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🙄 a bit social class bashing here. This one is a standard spelling of a popular Polish name.

tulippa · 19/03/2025 18:59

minnienono · 19/03/2025 18:51

@tulippa

thats the polish spelling

Yes I stand corrected. Thanks everyone!

MrsMitford3 · 19/03/2025 18:58

MissDoubleU · 19/03/2025 18:19

It’s a fucking Tradgedeigh

The sub reddit with that name is a thing of beauty

Cunningfungus · 19/03/2025 18:58

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

Hope you enjoy this @Catterpillarsflipflops 🤣🤣🤣

(it’s a YouTube clip for the link-avoidant)

W

Oh-shag Hennessy lol

Notgoodatpoetrybutgreatatlit · 19/03/2025 18:58

I remember having a Sian at school, all the teachers pronounced it Sharn. Like the actor Sian Philips. The girl would correct them. No Miss/Sir
It's See Ann.
It was hard to forget that one.

bugalugs45 · 19/03/2025 18:58

thatsfunnybecause · 19/03/2025 18:37

There’s a Reignbeau at dds nursery

I just said ‘ f*ck off ‘ out loud 🤦🏻‍♀️

SpencerTheRover · 19/03/2025 18:57

I used to work with children and have come across some absolute beauties; not necessarily the spelling but, more often than not it was a case of ‘where on earth did you come up with that?’
What grates like nails down a blackboard these days are the unusual spellings of my own name.
It was bad enough when I was a kid and they were the errors!
Is that with a K?
Oh is that starting with a K and with double E, N at the end.
Nope, it is the old fashioned boring way that my Dad thought you couldn’t abbreviate or mess around with 😂

MrsSunshine2b · 19/03/2025 18:57

There's a group on facebook called "That Name is a Tragedeigh" devoted to these kinds of awful names. Parents trying extremely hard to stand out as special when naming their baby instead of thinking about what is going to be a good name for their child going through life almost inevitably end up being the parents who bring up children who stand out for all the wrong reasons.

RisetteMcG · 19/03/2025 18:56

MissDoubleU · 19/03/2025 18:19

It’s a fucking Tradgedeigh

This comment made me spit out my Pepsay 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Livpool · 19/03/2025 18:56

Saddling the child with a lifetime of correcting how people spell their name

MidnightMillie · 19/03/2025 18:56

aprilshowers2015 · 19/03/2025 18:52

I know a Shivorne she was born pre internet days and parents heard it, liked it, didn't know how to spell it.

I wouldn't assume that.

I'm Irish and for many years a lot of us have been moving away from Gaelic spellings.

I have a cousin named Shinaed and she's in her late 40s.

MementoMountain · 19/03/2025 18:56

We know a Rainbeau, but they clearly didn't have the courage of their convictions to go the whole hog.

Cumberlandsausagedog · 19/03/2025 18:55

thatsfunnybecause · 19/03/2025 18:37

There’s a Reignbeau at dds nursery

This is surely NOT TRUE!

DrHGS · 19/03/2025 18:54

MissDoubleU · 19/03/2025 18:19

It’s a fucking Tradgedeigh

😂😂😂
I am ill and feeling very sorry for myself today, but that just made me laugh out loud - thank you 🙏

Rachie1973 · 19/03/2025 18:54

I have custody of 2 granddaughters. I really did have to argue with their parents to not register them Fayth and Ope.

MementoMountain · 19/03/2025 18:54

BarneyRonson · 19/03/2025 18:51

Nearly all your friends have adopted unsafe children with names that need tweaking? Where is this happening that there are clusters of unsafe adopted children all in the same social circle? And they have names that can be rendered safe by spelling changes.
lovely that the people close to you are understanding of your situation as they are in the same situation.

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I think you've misread here.

Adoptive families tend to meet up with other adoptive families fir support and understanding.

Similarly, I know very large numbers of autistic children because we went to autism support groups and an autism-friendly school.

It's not that every she knows has since adopted children.

IggyAce · 19/03/2025 18:54

I know a Jorja and Ellah. I’ve heard of Louee.