Ellynor?

People will think you can't spell....anyway, I think Eleanor spelled in it's usual way looks so pretty, would be a shame to change it's spelling...

so how is it said? Elly Nor?

Or is is said in the usual way? If you are pronouncing it the usual way then it should be Eleanor - Ellynor is just wrong on all levels - sorry!

Nice name but don't ruin it with a silly spelling. Just makes people think parents were a bit simple and could't spell

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Elinor with an 'i' is much less common so try that but don't spoil a perfectly good name.

"do be gentle"

OK, I'll try. You've gone too far off-centre here, I think.

You want to be unusual, which is fine, of course. So please choose a genuinely unusual name, spelled correctly, which sounds pretty to your ears.

Please don't consider a pretty name like Eleanor which is traditional, and then mis-spelling it. And mis-pronouncing it too. It's like insisting that those around you start spelling "apple" as "appull" because you don't like the correct spelling. "Appull" isn't unusual and unique, it's just wrong and clumsy. Right now it seems novel to you, but you may begin to be embarrassed by the deliberate mis-spelling in future.

Most people will attempt to spell names correctly as it goes against the grain to deliberately spell things wrong.

Elly-nor is not nice either spelled or pronounced that way, IMO. Sorry!

That website is always new to someone!

Oh please don't. I have an unusual name (not English as my parents aren't). Growing up and having to spell & pronounce it for people all the time was just awful. It really matters as a child. As an adult I spell it without people asking (although do still get some funny guesses).

If you are going to give a child an unusual name, make it a genuinely unusual name (and preferably relatively phonetic) rather than burdening them with having to spell something that would be otherwise straightforward (and lovely).

Joseff is nice, it is just the Welsh for Joseph I think.

However, I am a children's writer and I recently had a letter from an articulate little girl asking me to include her name in my next book. Then, she said, she could show it to her friends and they would understand that it was 'real'. She is so tired of explaining it. (It is an unusual spelling of a type of wine).
Very tactfully she added in a ps that she would understand if I didn't because it wasn't a very nice name.

Think hard before you name your baby!

UnquietDad- thanks for giving me the best laugh in ages - and I only read a few! The comment about being overtaken by ' babybrain' must be a factor with some of them ( or that's the charitable explanation).

Well, I saw the thread title and though 'Oh, the poor soul doesn't know how to spell Eleanor'...

Eleanor / Elinor / Elenora are all fine names Ellynor just looks ignorant.

I am trying to be gentle, but really... 'tis plain awful IMHO.

Right - mum of Eleanor here to give my opinion

First - don't do it. Its ridiculous.
Second - it looks like the name of a house.

what about helena

Probably was mixing it up with Elidor, no excuse though

Hands in geek pass and walks away, head hung in shame.

Thankyou

I chose it before I knew that baby no 1 was a boy and hung on to it for DD (no 2). Had to fight off DB and SIL who wanted it for their baby but she was born 9m later...ha! So there

I?m sorry but Ellynor ? pronounced Ellie-Nor?

You are just going to have a lifetime of spelling it out and then when people say ?oh, Eleanor ? that?s pretty? you will have to respond with ?not, it?s Ellie-nor?.
I agree with others that the MN reaction is pretty much what you will get in RL ? except that people will not say it to yr face.

I used to know a girl called Jayne, a common enough variant of Jane. She insisted that her name was Jay-nee.

Beautiful name Orm. It is my all time fave girls name. Unfortunately dh vetoed it. He wanted Emma, I wanted Eleanor, so we ended up with Emily, which we both loved, and I don't regret it, but I hunker for Eleanor still....

Which is why silly names such as Ellynor really get my goat!

No.

My DD is Eleanor and I like it that way personally. And anyway no-one calls her Elleenor. It's Ellie, Ella or Elenor.

Elinor is the welsh spelling I think Elin is lovely tho and Elinor gets shortened to EL orEllie.Think Ellynor is annoying

An awful, awful spelling of a beautiful (and my favourite) name.

Makes it sound clumpy and elephantine.

Is it time for this again already? It doesn't seem five minutes!

Oh please don't murder a perfectly good and nice name in an attempt of being 'different'.

It does not make you look different, it makes you look semi-literate and somewhat thick.

People in RL will judge you, and they may judge your dd.

If you want to be different, choose a truly different name. Don't butcher an established name.

Thank you.

The best made up spelling I've ever seen was

Typhphanee (Tiffany!).

It was on an American website.

It's Elanor in Lord of the Rings.

Unusual is going for an unusual name, not just spelling a normal name differently.

The problem with Ellynor is that in looking at it it's not like Elinor (a name I've loved since reading about the flower in Lord of the Rings and finding out that's what Sam Gamgee named his daughter) is that it looks like you've put Nor on the end of Elly.

The spelling for other people isn't such a big issue. I have a common name with many spelling variants and so have always had to spell it out, or not, if it's somewhere I don't care about like the hairdressers.