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"unique" spellings *cringe*

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ReginaPhalange89 · 23/10/2018 14:51

Sorry if I offend anyone but I just don't get it.

I've just seen these name spellings on Facebook....

Edythe and Alyvia. I'm assuming pronounced Edith and Olivia. Whhyyyy

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ReginaPhalange89 · 24/10/2018 18:25

Well I don't appreciate the accusation , and I think getting from "not liking unique spellings of common names'" to being a racist was a bit of a stretch on your part.

Race and nationality never came in to my comments but I'm sorry to anyone who is offended by what I said. I've asked for the thread to be deleted but don't know if it will be .

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Thenewdoctor · 24/10/2018 17:34

Fml

Spell

Thenewdoctor · 24/10/2018 17:29

How do you think I feel getting the sideeye and the sneer and the “are you sure” when I soell my name?

Sarahjconnor · 24/10/2018 17:25

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ReginaPhalange89 · 24/10/2018 16:33

Well @Sarahjconnor I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like it if someone implied that you were a racist , would you ?

My views on how someone spells a name are 'vile' according to you. I think you might be the one who is overreacting hun ! 😂

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DunkandEggAgain · 24/10/2018 16:27

I was reading "This Will Hurt a Bit" (humorous journal kept by an overworked junior nhs doctor)
I proper gasped at reading that one of his patients named her child Sayton (pronounced as Satan!), while another named her baby LaSanya - pronounced exactly as lasagne...!
The bloody horror!

Sarahjconnor · 24/10/2018 16:22

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Failingat40 · 24/10/2018 15:59

Referring to a name as 'mutilated' is obviously upsetting for someone with that name

Please read what I wrote more carefully before spouting more nonsense. Mutated is what I wrote. Not ‘Mutilated’ 🙄
If you’d care to google Alyvia, the name is classed as a ‘mutated’ variant of Olivia. Perhaps you’d like to vent your displeasure at the websites too? Or perhaps you’re being massively sensitive about this subject.

Your response is "f you" - more aggression and unpleasantness.

Again, you read what you want to see rather than what I wrote. ‘Fuck that’ is not ‘Fuck you’. I do hope you’re not in a job where accurate reading and comprehension are required.

Perhaps you could brush that big chip off your shoulder now and pop off to a less triggering thread.

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ReginaPhalange89 · 24/10/2018 15:48

Sorry but not liking the way someone chooses to spell a name is absolutely NOT racist, I don't care how many times you say it. If I said I don't like the name Rachel spelled Rachael (just an example! Don't mind either spelling!) How does that make me racist ?

You're obviously trying to start a keyboard war by saying that, so I'm not going to bother replying anymore !

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AnaChocolatte · 24/10/2018 15:35

Yes Phoebe is the traditional spelling. I predict a lifetime of having to correct people to misspell her name ahead.

BretonStripe · 24/10/2018 15:27

It's Phoebe

Cosmoa · 24/10/2018 15:20

@AnaChocolatte what do you mean? That's how Pheobe is spelt...

audweb · 24/10/2018 15:08

I don’t think imagining if it would fit a doctor or a judge is a good thing. Historically those have mostly been white males in the UK so my daughters African name wouldn’t “fit” into that narrative... but she would as a person. So no, I didn’t base my child’s name on a such a “traditional elite” system. Might be unique to you and others in the UK but certainly is not in one of her origin countries.

AnaChocolatte · 24/10/2018 15:05

We know a Pheobe - I really don't understand it. It's not even unique, it just looks like they can't spell.

Dljlr · 24/10/2018 15:05

I've taught a Britaniyah before. It just made my tummy curl up and die every time I saw it. I cannot imagine recieving her CV and not immediately making a judgement, as awful as that is (and of course nonsensical, since all it demonstrates is that the poor girl has idiot parents).

SnuggyBuggy · 24/10/2018 14:58

I think a good test is to see if you can imagine a doctor or judge with the name

Sarahjconnor · 24/10/2018 14:38

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DeltaG · 24/10/2018 13:55

Oh and the American called Zavier is black. I guess your 'side-eye' has gone in light of this, because 'cultural erasure'...

DeltaG · 24/10/2018 13:52

@ladycarlotta

Oh right, I see, it's just the white working class who are contemptuous chavs for doing this then eh?

Your snobbery is fucking disgusting.

Skynight90 · 24/10/2018 13:48

I think some people try to be "unique" at their child's expense.

MarthasGinYard · 24/10/2018 13:37

But the worst was a girl named M-Ellie (Emily'

Good Lord

That is grim

Thenewdoctor · 24/10/2018 13:17

I never had anything with my name on so my kids got me something personalised last year for Christmas.

It’s horrible to feel sneered at just for something that you yourself have no control,over. I didn’t pick my name and when my parents did they were living in another country where it’s normal.

Cosmoa · 24/10/2018 13:16

I know a baby Alyvia... But the worst was a girl named M-Ellie (Emily) Hmm Confused

Failingat40 · 24/10/2018 13:15

Wow. Disliking the mutated names spelt as Edythe & Alyvia is now deemed 'racist'??!!

Fuck that.

Op, I agree. Edythe looks ridiculous and Alyvia looks clumsy and takes the eye longer to figure out what it actually says.
A horrible mutation of the classical name Olivia.

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