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I think I've found the ultimate 'dodgy spelling of normal baby name to try and make it unique'

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FelixFelix · 05/10/2015 21:34

Grace is quite a nice name. So is Gracie as a nn.

So what's the consensus on 'Graicae'? Hmm

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ispyfispi · 07/10/2015 19:15

I had an email from a travel agent signed 'Jesykah' My mind just skipped over it as an unfamiliar foreign name until I re-read it and realised it was 'Jessica'

Minimaus · 07/10/2015 15:25

Josef is the normal spelling in German speaking countires. Perhaps there are German ancestors in his family.

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 07/10/2015 14:54

I know a "josef"

I dont think he has any foreign history.

Ricardian · 07/10/2015 14:25

on a previous thread someone mentioned a child called Timofey, which is also a Russian spelling.

Well, it's a Roman transliteration of the Russian name ???????. Presumably you would only spell the name Timofey if you also wanted it pronounced in some distinctively Russian way I can only guess at, as otherwise what's the point? So far as I can tell, western Timothy is transliterated ??????.

GnocchiGnocchiWhosThere · 07/10/2015 10:47

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Readytomakechanges · 07/10/2015 08:58

As we say where I'm from: Nowt as queer as folk.

usual · 07/10/2015 07:56

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Anastasie · 07/10/2015 07:52

Yes Usual. There are plenty about the other end though...think of all the threads about bizarre upper class names.

Doesn't make it right but it is understandable.

LittleCandle · 07/10/2015 07:51

I know a Kloey - and their surname begins with a K as well and this was looonnngggg before the bloody Kardashians appeared on the scene. All the family names began with a K - quite tragic.

Pipbin · 07/10/2015 07:50

Aaliveigha
Olivia?

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 07/10/2015 07:49

I'll add in my two favourites so far:
Jaykub and Izzak.

I also went to school in the 1970s with a Mysheele, but I think that was a genuine literacy issue, rather than a "yooneek" spelling.

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Anastasie · 07/10/2015 07:47

Higher, I mean, not upper. But you know what I mean.

Anastasie · 07/10/2015 07:46

Lower, upper, more intelligent, less intelligent.

I think it's part of the human condition. But as with many things that are natural, it warrants suppression.

usual · 07/10/2015 07:43

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Anastasie · 07/10/2015 07:34

You are right, Scone.

I feel bad about the names chosen by people who are genuinely unaware of how bizarre they appear. As long as a child is loved, that matters and the name does not.

It is a natural thing to find amusing the proclivities of those different to ourselves - perhaps in terms of 'class' or intelligence. But it probably needs to be stifled somewhat.

SconeForAStroll · 07/10/2015 07:31

I get extremely uncomfortable on these threads as they can feel racist. For example the La-a wouldn't be ridiculed I hope if it were simply Ladasha, a completely normal, probably African American name.

I worry that we are subliminally lowering our expectations of the people these children will become as a result of the choices (or illiteracy) of their parents.

Other cultural names and concepts are of value too, other phonetic systems are equally valid.

And I honestly don't mean to be PO, but with spellings this unusual the poor kid googling themselves in a few years will find this thread.

Anastasie · 07/10/2015 07:28

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Anastasie · 07/10/2015 07:26

Quklowii Grin

PennyHasNoSurname · 07/10/2015 07:18

Aaliveigha

And it also has a hyphen and another name straight after it (but Im trying ti remain even slightly annonymous).

Newtoallthis81 · 07/10/2015 07:16

Exactly Ricardian! Thank you!

BikeRunSki · 07/10/2015 07:14

I went to school with a Kamaran and a Jazelle.

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