to feel right sorry for these babby's with unique names?

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They'll be respelling for there whole life.

Amieeleigh.

Maizii-Faii.

Demilea.

Reah-Neavah.

Jay-dee.

Rylee.

Maisy-Maee.

Ezmai.

Courney-Alice.

Izaeyah.

Jorgea.

Jerzey.

Daisey-Jai.

Dolci'Lou.

Sorry if these are any of normal spellings but I don't recognize them.

Thank you!

I am a mixture of excitement and gloom as I worry my age and single status will tell against me, plus I know it could be very difficult depending on what experiences she had before.

But my daughter is very excited about possibly having a little sister and it isn't going to happen any other way unless Mr Right suddenly appears to impregnate me in next five mins. I will keep ear out for door bell...

But you want to adopt primary age? They should bite your arm off!!

I hope they do. (well not literally but you know what I mean).

But I know it is a likely that a four or five year old will have spent a few years in the system by then, probably being shunted off to a number of foster placements, will have big emotional problems... It will be hard.

And to pay me back for this thread no doubt she will be called Maizeee Mai Tequillah.

Ha ha

You are realistic and that is a very good start.

Dont forget that most adopters post (including me) when we are having problems. Its not all horror stories

Let us know how you go?

I'm pretty sure if you do adopt a child called Maizeee Mai Tequillah you'll be getting ferocious about anyone who is twat enough to judge her on that basis! Maybe the middle ground is that responsible parents don't give their children daft names for no reason, but since not everyone has the blessing of responsible parents people should also try not to be twats?

I think that is an excellent middle ground.

Fingers crossed that in a few years time you will be commenting on my thread about adopted daughter who now refuses to answer to her new name of Sophie Emma Jane.

OMGOSH Spero for goodness sake do NOT make the mistake of starting a thread on an adoption forum about changing a child's name.

Your head could actually fall off

Hopefully I will see you there in the adoption threads in early 2012 once I have actually moved house.

Sounds as if there will be plenty of thrills and spills on the adoption threads and hopefully some guest appearances by he who must not be named, or he will pop up on the thread.

To the poster who mentioned Filip (with a F)

This is an accepted spelling in many areas of the world. Perhaps that particular Filip was not of English origin. I know a Filip from Belgrade. Should I laugh at him for being Serbian?

To be fair, the only people who get their knickers in a twist about these new-fangled weird names and alternative spellings are us, the parents' peers. My son has several friends who have names that make me pull a cat's bum face, and he just goes 'What's wrong with it? It's just a name.'

For today's Ocean or Summer or Sky, see yesterday's Dawn or Heather.

For Destiny or Liberty, see Constance or Grace.

How is Courtney or Tiffany more tacky than Kimberley?

We sneer at Shannon or Mackenzie, but we don't bat an eyelid at Kelly.

We say 'what's this obsession with Welsh/Gaelic/Celtic names, when you are not Welsh/Irish/Scots? Or we think it's pretentious to pick foreign names....
but look at what we are all called. Elaine, Lorraine, Annette, Yvonne, Adele, Claire, Martine, Jacqueline, Valerie, Julie ......all French.

We laugh at silly spellings like Kamron for Cameron, and Aleesha for Alicia. But we don't laugh at Debra, Kathryn.

Why? Because we are used to them, and they are no longer new. And we grew up with them, so to us they are normal. But some of our mother's friends probably pulled some terrible cat's bum faces.

Talking about unusual names, wasn't Wendy a made up name? No one bats an eyelid at it now.

And Jodie. Someone with a daughter called Jodie told me I was trying to be too riginal with one of my children's names. It isn't made up, but it is very old, and very under-used, so some people assume I just made it up. It is a name more commonly heard as a surname.

Dp's mate named his son Arry as in Harry! After that, nothing has shocked me.

Who mentioned "Alys" - nothing wrong with that, it's the Welsh spelling of "Alice". That's all.

I believe Wendy was invented by the Peter Pan writer. It comes from 'Fwendy' (Friendy with a slight impediment).

This thread has been really helpful for me in that it has revealed to me the basis of my twitchiness at certain names. What I really object to is 'fancy' spelling of otherwise reasonably mainstream names - 'Aymee' for eg or that horrible example of 'ambaa' which I really hope isn't true.

I now accept thanks to this thread that my other objections are based on my own prejudice, which I should make an effort to tackle.

But surely no one could reasonably disagree it is just unnecessary and unkind to saddle your child with a name they will constantly be having to spell out? Even more so when the name will sound like 'Amy' to most ears.

"But surely no one could reasonably disagree it is just unnecessary and unkind to saddle your child with a name they will constantly be having to spell out?"

The problem with that is that there are established names with a variety of spellings already, eg. Catherine/Cathryn/Katherine/Kathryn. So anyone with any version of that name has to spell it constantly. And I don't think anyone could describe that as an unnecessary and unkind name.

Same goes for families from a non-English heritage who want to use traditional names from their culture for their English-born children. Most of the time they will have to spell their names out.

Spelling names out all the time is annoying, I grant you that, but I wouldn't describe it as unkind on the part of the parents.

Hey fellatio, tiffany is a lot less tacky than Kimberley! It's a religious name ( gift of god) and has been around ages- even if I did come by it via the villain in a Georgette Heyer novel!

alot of these names arent spelt unusually but are foreign names. my children have names after their heritage and that can only be a good thing.

its usually only a certain generation of people that dont like unusual names or spellings anyway, ahem

Eh? Adjusts ear trumpet. What are you implying knitted breast.

I feel sorry for babies whose parents refer to them as 'bubby'

to the OP, YANBU

to a handful of other people, I think a quiet apology to the dyslexic OP might be in order. (I confess to being terrible myself for sometimes judging spelling and grammatical mistakes) The OP took a right hammering for her spelling and dialect, and came back in a very dignified fashion, with a (cyber)smile, and good grace to explain without drama that spelling etc is an issue for her.

A bit late to this thread, but it is a great excuse for me to post a link to my very favourite baby names website. The name says it all: Baby's Named a Bad Bad Thing

It'll give you hours of entertainment!

errr, Kathryn isn't a silly spelling of Katherine - it's phonetic. How very dare you?!

I agree though, in a few years these names will be thought of as the norm and even possibly old fashioned like Sharon/Tracey (about 10 years older than me) and Kelly/Emma (loads of these my age). Wonder what will replace Kayden and the 'faux old geezer/urchin' names like Alfie et al.

talkingnonsense Tiffany means "divine manifestation", according to several of my books..... Comes from an old greek name.