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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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florascotia2 · 23/10/2018 18:04

Please read the whole thread. You risk looking ill-informed otherwise.

As I and at last one other poster have said, Edythe is not a 'fresh hell'. It's been used since the 19th century - the time when Anglo-Saxon names, including the original - Eadgyð - became newly fashionable.
Edythe is at least as accurate a modernised version of the original name as Edith.

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ReginaPhalange89 · 23/10/2018 18:01

@patienceofatoddler no, I think they think they're just really cool 🙈😂

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MrsChollySawcutt · 23/10/2018 18:01

I worked with a Niel pronounced Neil. Spends his lifetime saying no it's ie not ei and not receiving his emails...

auberbene · 23/10/2018 17:58

'Lexii-Maii' and 'Armarnii-Raii'. Seriously.

FekkoTheLawyer · 23/10/2018 17:57

'Female' was the name of a prostitute in an old 70s cop film. I forget which one.

SemperIdem · 23/10/2018 17:56

I’m related to a Lexii.

Just why?

MarthasGinYard · 23/10/2018 17:55

'dd is Molly I wish I'd have been a bit more adventurous now and gone wit h some thing like Molli Molleigh.'

Really?

Why on earth?

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 23/10/2018 17:53

I have to confess to quite liking unique spellings on the provision that you can you're not looking think WTF is that. I mean what they fresh hell I'd Edythe. egMy dd is Molly I wish I'd have been a bit more adventurous now and gone wit h some thing like Molli Molleigh. I know of a Keli once which I thought was lovely.
If someone hadnt have pointed out that it WS Edith. I'd have been saying Eddy-the.Grin

Patienceofatoddler · 23/10/2018 17:53

Any one else find themselves wondering if maybe the parents just didn't know how to spell the name properly?

PennyMordauntsLadyBrain · 23/10/2018 17:34

I know of a Porchia

Supposed to be Portia...

SnuggyBuggy · 23/10/2018 17:30

I know it's snobby but I can't stand younique spellings of names

EvieV28 · 23/10/2018 17:28

Edythe is ok!

IsTheRainEverComingBack · 23/10/2018 16:55

Offensive*

IsTheRainEverComingBack · 23/10/2018 16:55

BlaaBlaaBlaa no that’s not true. It’s a common racist myth but there’s no evidence of it. There’s also no evidence for anyone called La-a (Ladasha) another one wheeled out to be offencive to African Americans.

MarthasGinYard · 23/10/2018 16:21

Pleasure 😆

MistressDeeCee · 23/10/2018 16:20

Not quite the same but at school last week a mum called out loudly to her son "Ex-hay-vi-aaaah, come here"

He has the same name as my dad - Xavier. Creole Caribbean sounds like 'Zavier'. DDs dad is Brazilian/Portuguese & they have variation of name but pronounced 'Javier' (very soft J').

I did feel like bit of a name snob tho. But I couldn't help it...just, No.

So I guess at times it's also pronunciation that parents don't know

MrsTerryPratchett · 23/10/2018 16:20

Kiss little Jessieighkah from me.

MarthasGinYard · 23/10/2018 16:16

Quite Mrs TP

I'm just going to cringe back into my cave, and put Ryleigh and Feibee to bed.

BlaaBlaaBlaa · 23/10/2018 16:13

I was just told of someone who names her child Female but pronounced it fermarlay!

MrsTerryPratchett · 23/10/2018 16:13

'Their' parents

Best spelling karma ever. Grin

MarthasGinYard · 23/10/2018 16:11

'Their' parents

Whoops

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ReginaPhalange89 · 23/10/2018 16:10

😂😂😂

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MarthasGinYard · 23/10/2018 16:09

I have young women come to work with me sometimes and I wonder if they're parents just didn't know the spellings

This season I've met a Jaid, kileigh and a Young man 'Lewk'

All British and wearing the name badges

Which of course I questioned 

kiwiblue · 23/10/2018 16:03

I know a Natasher (she's in her twenties).

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ReginaPhalange89 · 23/10/2018 16:01

@marthasginyard 😂 oh dear !

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