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Original poster

Eevie?

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suwoo · 03/05/2011 12:35

Not for me. A friend of a friend has one. Its not just me who thinks its stupid and kre8tive naming gone mad is it?

Awaits people telling me its Irish or something . If its real then I will back down gracefully.

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pirateparty · 04/05/2011 21:56

I came on to say: lovely name, but for the love of God spell it properly!

Glad to see I don't need to! (I'm pretty good at keeping my pedantic urges in - but wasn't going to be able to help myself this time).

Poor, poor child. A life-time of having to explain how to spell your otherwise very lovely and popular name.

TabithaTwitchet · 04/05/2011 21:55

Isn't Eeva the Finnish or Estonian spelling? Maybe it is derived from that?

I knew an Imagen and thought her parents had spelled Imogen incorrectly - then it turned out that they intended it to be pronounced Imagine!

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suwoo · 04/05/2011 21:51

at Tidey.

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Tidey · 04/05/2011 21:46

Imogine is basically just Imagine, but with a mouthful of cake.

RancerDoo · 04/05/2011 21:44

Imogine? Bonkers.

Imogine all the people, living life in peace-oooh-oooooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

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suwoo · 04/05/2011 21:44

I'm so glad its not just me and I'm thrilled with a full house of no its ridiculous's.

Shall I nip over to the other side for their opinions?

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Tidey · 04/05/2011 21:40

Not fond of superfluous letters. Know of an Aemelia and an Amiie. Heh?

breatheslowly · 04/05/2011 21:38

Wee do'nt uze origenal spellingz phor moast worrds, wy naymes?

pinkhebe · 04/05/2011 21:12

I know an Imogine

razzlebathbone · 04/05/2011 21:04

My DD is Edie and a few people who I don't see often have written her name as Eadie in cards etc. It's ridiculous.

TheSecondComing · 03/05/2011 23:13

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Wafflepuss · 03/05/2011 23:11

Not only is eevee a poke on but its only fight move is running away. Rubbish.

RancerDoo · 03/05/2011 23:06

I think there are not enough Es. Eeeeevieeee would have been better. And given that I am a shouty mother Eeeeeeevieeee would be phonetic.

lurkerspeaks · 03/05/2011 22:23

You mean there is more than one in the world?

Poor child. Ridiculous way to spell a lovely name.

AvengingGerbil · 03/05/2011 18:53

Eevee is a pokemon. Just saying.

bananamom · 03/05/2011 18:52

I'm pretty sure that Caitlin Moran has an Eevie or Eavie. Very odd spelling.

WiiUnfit · 03/05/2011 18:46

Reminds me of "eerie" & for people who write loose r's that look more like v's IYSWIM it will look like that too

I think too many people are trying to be original with spellings .etc, just think though - in years to come when a distant relative is tracing their family history they may think it was accidentally spelt wrong!

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suwoo · 03/05/2011 13:59

Ha ha. It reminds me of weevil or evil.

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CarefulWithThatAxeEugene · 03/05/2011 13:50

Reminds me of Eeyore.

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suwoo · 03/05/2011 13:26

Check me out deliberately missing out the capital I to demonstrate my point.

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suwoo · 03/05/2011 13:25

Tis deliberate. Baby is a number of months old.

It is always writtens sans capital letter on fb too. it looks even worse as eevie tbh.

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ajandjjmum · 03/05/2011 13:22

Could it be that she doesn't realise? Probably different, but a friend texted to say they'd decided their DD should be called a name spelt 'unusually' with an 'a'. I texted back saying I thought is was a lovely name, but spelt it in the more normal fashion with an 'i'. She now has an 'i'. Not for a second thinking it was just me, but maybe others had queried the spelling too, and I suspect this friend hadn't realised.

Or it could have been a text error

GooseyLoosey · 03/05/2011 13:21

I assumed it was a typo. She will spend her whole life with the majority of people assuming the same and correcting it.

BellaBearisWideAwake · 03/05/2011 13:17

It looks like skeevy. It's amazing what difference an extra E makes

moogalicious · 03/05/2011 13:11

not as bad as evvie - at least eevie is phonetic

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