'Younique' name spelling competition....

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Can you spell the following names in the most Younique way?

Jennifer

William

My attempts;
J'hennypher
Whillyium

Je-ne-veux.
Oui-l'ille-et-M

There's a temptation to just make it reflect your own accent. So...

Cheniphurr
Wulyum

Djiekneaphu
Genifa
Jayneefû
J'aineaffa

Weeliam
Oehlyum
Wheeleeham
Ouilaham

Zhenifa
Huihliam

A light-hearted thread about silly spellings of names gets the thread police out by page 1 telling everyone how mean they are, probably having chosen to spell their children's names the easy/commonly known and accepted ways.

There's some good name varieties on here.

@Bishybarnybee where's the sneering??

I like Frenchified William! That's thinking outside the box.... Or should I say la boite???

I have to say I LOVE Guillam (no idea how to spell it) as an alternative to William.

surely the most odd spelling of William is Will-i-am?

So I've reflected on why I am uncomfortable with it. I definitely am making assumptions and if none of you are, good for you. But I associate creative spelling of names with black culture that has drifted into the mainstream, and I guess I'm also assuming that those names are rarer among more affluent families. So it feels like sneering at popular culture to me. I've worked with children with a vast range of creative and not traditional English names and I'd have thought most people living in multi cultural areas would not see those names as anything remarkable. If you are, or work with, black families, you might not think there was anything to laugh at here. But prepared to accept I could be wrong.

Xdjainneephouh.

The x is silent.

Kjel pronounced shell is a name. I know a man in his 60s with it

Oh shush, @Bishbarnybee. It's got nothing to do with race. White people are quite commonly the perps when it comes to spelling gymnastics of common names. Maybe it's your own racial bias that's immediately jumping to 'black names.' Own your guilt rather than projecting it onto other people. A lot of these look more Welsh than anything.

Anyway, my contributions-

G3n3ff4
Phwyllghym

So you're judging others based on your own prejudices 🤔

I don't just work with "black families" I also socialise with some of them (shock horror!) and they'd be pretty pissed if I assumed that they were of "lower privelege and had different values" to myself based on how they spelt a name.

It's your attitude that needs sorting. No one else's.