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odd spellings/deliberate wrong spelling

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discobeaver · 17/10/2010 10:16

Why do people do this? The name sounds the same, and all it means is the poor child will spend its life telling people how to spell their name, with people getting it wrong on cards and letters and forms and so on.

Sometimes I think parents get carried away and don't think about the implications of actually living with a name.

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snufkin · 16/01/2011 22:17

My daughter has a friend called Jamimah (Jemima)Grin

thecaptaincrocfamily · 25/11/2010 22:10

Shoshanablue come join me on a thread to play guess who Grin

ShoshanaBlue · 25/11/2010 21:56

It's because they want their children to be on the x-factor.

Summertime92 · 24/11/2010 22:42

my ex name was Jaymz (james) i didnt understand why they just couldnt spell it normally Confused

FairyArmadillo · 10/11/2010 22:51

Skipping- my cousin has a little Yves, pronounced EE-viz. Saw it in a magazine...

skippingturtle · 10/11/2010 10:50

A teacher friend of mine taught a little girl who said her name was Whyvonnee. Turns out it was spelled Yvonne. Presumably her parents thought it looked nice written down but didn't know how to pronounce it. Grin

Lauz87 · 10/11/2010 05:34

The most inexplicably annoying to me so far has been Emmerleigh :/ During the course of a normal work day though, i hear about 20 'clever and original' ways of spelling names, and i cringe every time.

loulou33 · 09/11/2010 22:20

I have seen a 'neeve' and a 'shivorn' - 2 beautiful gaelic names Hmm

loving 'dorn' that's a corker and feebee.

I remember reading somewhere that a few hundred years ago, registrars were often not very literate and hence why names that are similar are often spelt differently (think Brown, Browne, Smith, Smyth etc etc). suppose that also applies to first names.

Am i right in thinking that registrars have the right to refuse a parent's requests for a name if its too far fetched??

laughinglil · 21/10/2010 20:13

I see a Feebee born in my local paper the other day! lol

Ineedsomesleep · 21/10/2010 16:46

Dorn? Oh FFS.

emptyshell · 21/10/2010 15:29

Worst I've seen - James... Jaimz

I've got the less common spelling of a name that wasn't trendy but seems to have gone nuts in the name stakes lately (oi gerroff my name yer buggers I dibsed it first :P) - annoyed me for years getting it spelt incorrectly and it's only now that I've passed the giving a shit stage about it since I'm fighting a losing battle. Annoyed me to death at school though!

sparkleshine · 20/10/2010 23:48

Oh sorry my mistake Blush

Another name at my DS nursery is a girl called Olivya

littlemisslozza · 20/10/2010 22:49

I was served in a shop yesterday by someone called 'Dorn'

purplefish · 20/10/2010 19:37

I saw a school newsletter with a girl (I assume) called Taelyr the other day Hmm

littlemissm · 20/10/2010 19:24

I have a Jaeden who's registered name was Jae but he got so much stick at school being called gay jae that he changed it by deed poll to Jaeden. I really like it. I also have a daughter Baylee people think this is a made up spelling but actually it is the female variant of Bailey.

MintyMoo · 20/10/2010 19:06

Sparkle - it is, the woman in question's DS went to a school where the other Matthews' names were spelled Mathew, hence why her DS was 'Matthew with the two t's'

FimboBBINGFORAPPLES · 20/10/2010 17:13

There was a kid in the local rag the other day - Lucinder, I assume it is supposed to be Lucinda.

I have come across the following:
Chellea (Shelly)
Caycee
Melonie
Ju-Leigh

sparkleshine · 20/10/2010 16:18

I thought Matthew was spelt with 2 t's. Everyone I know called Matthew spells it like that. It even just came up on my auto text.
I agree about the making up of names, ours were all made up by someone. Why not try something new.

Ineedsomesleep · 20/10/2010 12:12

Isisanddivan, thats the bit that has always perplexed me too. Why not just choose a more unusual name?

piscesmoon · 19/10/2010 22:51

I assume either that they are trying to be original (in which case why not pick an original name?) or they just can't spell.
I don't think they should use a foreign spelling of British name, unless they have connections and/or family reasons for using it.

MintyMoo · 19/10/2010 22:29

I'm sure I read somewhere (maybe on here) about someone whose son is known as 'Matthew with the two t's...'

I know of a child called Alys, a uni friend of my school friend gave birth to her last year. She is English, the father is Welsh and my friend wrinkled her nose 'they can't even spell'. My Mum once wrote in to Lincolnshire life because the editor wrote a nasty piece about someone who named their child Ceri saying that she hates 'funky' spellings. Yeah, it's Welsh - no connection to Kerry.

Treyc is an abomination, DP calls her Trayke. Not as bad as 'Danyl' last year though!

freerangeeggs · 19/10/2010 19:20

I know someone who has a Micheal. The family are not Irish or American - the mum simply spells it the wrong way and doesn't really seem to care.

You can argue about the origins of Micheal all you want. The fact of the matter is that the majority of Micheals spell their names this way because their parents can't spell.

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