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Does everyone think the spelling of my chosen name is odd??

187 replies

MrsMonkeyBear · 05/06/2014 11:58

Hubby and I just found out we are expecting a little girl.

We have chosen the name Sofee but everyone thinks we should spell it a more traditional way.

Am I just being weird??

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ILoveCoreyHaim · 05/06/2014 19:58

Sofee is not pronounced Sophie so it's a completely different name imo.

With my dialect I would pronounce it

SOFFF E

Lesleythegiraffe · 05/06/2014 19:52

Just spell it the normal way otherwise she will spend her life saying it's "Sophie, spelled S-o-f-e-e"

For her sake, if nothing else, I've never understood why people take normal names and give them silly different spellings

LoveVintage · 05/06/2014 19:40

Don't do it!. I hate it when people make up spellings just to be different.

I know an Amy - spelt Aiymee. I kid you not.

Monkeybubbles1 · 05/06/2014 19:35

Maybe just do Sophie with a "y" on the end if you're going for a different spelling, so Sophy. That still looks nice, I think. Sofee, quite frankly, just looks stupid and dare I say, chavvy.

Alisvolatpropiis · 05/06/2014 19:34

Yes

SauvignonBlanche · 05/06/2014 19:29

Was she conceived in the living room? Grin

NorksEnormous · 05/06/2014 19:20

Definitely not sofee! Even my autocorrect wants to change it!

I know of an Alfey instead of Alfie- I think that's kinda wankish

TheFillyjonk · 05/06/2014 19:10

Mixture of sofa and settee... Was she conceived in the living room? Grin

SauvignonBlanche · 05/06/2014 19:08

Dear God, no!

Whatisaweekend · 05/06/2014 18:59

Dear god let this be a wind up!!!

(Sophie is a gorgeous name. Why why why would you change the spelling?? No. No. No.)

imsureineverdo · 05/06/2014 18:21

It isn't spelling it differently. It's spelling it incorrectly!

TravellingToad · 05/06/2014 18:07

You (and by extension Sofee) will come across as
total thickys

Marnierose · 05/06/2014 18:04

Yes

Viviennemary · 05/06/2014 16:39

Yes. It looks ridiculous.

HerRoyalNotness · 05/06/2014 16:36

thinkivebeenhacked p a r i c e for paris, which is a completely valid name in itself, but IS NOT, and NEVER will be PARIS!

MewlingQuim · 05/06/2014 16:29

I have a non traditional spelling of a traditional name.

I have spent my life spelling it out and I do wonder why the fuck my parents couldn't have just spelled it normally

Both my parents were literate. They just thought it would be nice to be different.

BrianTheMole · 05/06/2014 16:19

No I don't like that. It reminds me of sofa. Please don't call her that.

usualsuspectt · 05/06/2014 16:15

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choochootrain1 · 05/06/2014 16:14

my name is spelt with one of the letters changed from the normal way to spell it, at times in my life I have enjoyed it's uniqueness, at other times I deal with the rolling eyes. I wouldn't do it... let the kid change it to being spelled that way later on if they really want to

CaulkheadUpNorth · 05/06/2014 16:14

I have a friend called Sofia, nn sofy. Would you consider that?

usualsuspectt · 05/06/2014 16:11

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beatingwings · 05/06/2014 15:35

If I saw it written I would pronounce it soffee to rhyme with toffee.

Sorry, just seems silly.

florascotia · 05/06/2014 15:27

I hope I wasn't being nasty - I was just trying to say that in English spelling the letter o followed by ff - as in 'toffee' or 'coffee'- creates a particular sound: 'off'. If we've learned standard English spelling, that's how we decode it. Automatically.

Therefore, automatically, we read 'Soffee' as 'soff-ee' not 'sow-fee'. We then ask ourselves, 'Can that be right? ' We have, separately, learned the widely-used proper nouns 'Sophie' and 'Sofie'. We read them as 'sow-fee'. But the unusual 'Soffee' = 'Sophie' does not fit this pattern. So we feel puzzled or irritated or confused.

Of course, if we meet little Soffee every day at school or in the park or at playgroup, and are told by OP or another how they would like us to say her name, then we soon learn it, just like we learn any proper noun, and it stops being a problem. But for the countless other people who Soffee might meet during her lifetime - either for the first time face to face, or through the medium of written language (forms, computers etc) the puzzlement reaction is likely to occur with each fresh encounter, and may not be nice for her.

However, it's entirely up to the OP whether she thinks all this matters.

squizita · 05/06/2014 15:03

Driven but not proper nouns. They are fixed spellings only in one case: the case of the person/place they name. That's not to say changing the spelling for the sake of it won't look silly sometimes...

mum2jakie · 05/06/2014 15:01

If you want to have an unusual variation of the name, I think Sofie would work. Sofee will raise more than a few eyebrows and your daughter will probably tire of the misspelling and questions about the spelling quite quickly.

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