silly name spellings

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ESMAI!!!????

That's it really - just being a judgy judgemeister.....

This little Henri is not French in the slightest! Henri's mum if of the opinion that there are too many Henry's so she wanted to do something different like spell it incorrectly

I know of a Dizney.

I think a lot of people think that they are naming a baby like naming a dog or cat. They don't seem to realise that one day that baby will be a whole real grown up.

I know of a Dizney.

It would seem that it is actually an old name

A few years ago I came across a Lauleetah in nursery.

In case you're wondering, it's pronounced Lolita. Which is a bit questionable anyway imo.

Phteven! That is not Steven no matter who much you claim it is. Ph is an F sound not an S

No one is called that. Someone asked for Stephen's name. He said, 'It's Stephen, with a ph.'

Lian

Poor girl, otherwise known as Leanne!

D'oh

A nursery child was called Mathew, with one t.
His mother explained that she had chosen it because she wanted him to have an really unusual name
To add to our bewilderment, he had a little hoodie with Matthew printed across the back. With two t's.

Long ago, I would have regarded "Henri" as being French, and probably blamed those dastardly Normans for their invasion of our language. These days, I see "Henri" as that philosophe cat on YouTube.

The worst example of creative spelling was the name of a young boy - Taelyr. Only saw it written down, so no idea whether it was pronounced Tyler or Taylor. Google tells me it's mostly now used by young ladies of a musical persuasion. That young boy would be an adult by now. I wonder how he coped at school and if he changed his name at the soonest opportunity.

I recall when my dd was little, a mother at a Children's Centre naming her dd Ebony....All well and good....except the mother was an ardent racist!!

Geez how judgmental do people want to be?

I have a name that is perfectly legit (name of a famous city) but is comply mistaken for a similar and also legit name. It was also spelt wrong by most family members because they were too lazy to think about where the name came from.

My DDs have legit names but not common. One has a grandad who has spelt it a different way (all legit) each time. The others is pronounced wrong all the time because it's so old and uncommon. If my girls are anything like me they'll brush the questions off. I loved growing up knowing my name wasn't that common.my Dsis has a slightly more common name but still uncommon for the time she was born and loved it too.

When accused of names being wrong it's just a sign of people unwilling to allow language to grow and expand. You know the title queen was spelt quene in the past right? Lots of names have gone through spelling changes. What makes one person's version superior?

Incidently on Irish names. I had a friend with the name Ciara (pronounced Kira). She was forever correcting people because they would pronounce it see-air-a. I later met a girl who pronounced it the see-air-a way and wondered whether her parents knew about the original pronunciation or went for this one because it would stop too many issues when reading the name out.

I also met a Sara who was always fed up of people pronouncing it like Zara. It was pronounced like Sarah, which seems to be the more traditionally American version now.

As I said, language evoles but taking the pissed out of people doesn't help that. Live and let live.

Not read the thread... Too long, but have you done the poor little girl called
Kviiilyn (Caitlin)

Kamm'Ronn - at DS's preschool.

I shit you not.

Just why?????

Yeah that's been mentioned Tamesa about twenty times

Elisabeth is a proper spelling of the name

A client at work called their child Shardonnay. She thought it was classier than Chardonnay

Hmm I gave my daughter the middle name May but spelt one of the alternative ways, is that chavvy too? I personally just hate names ending with a y (absolutely no idea why?!) like Molly or Milly or Maddy - love the names themselves but would always choose an ie version, seems prettier to me somehow. I also prefer Aimee to Amy.
One thing I don't get is people calling themselves Sarah but spelling it Sara, that's a name in its own right. But to each their own, we can't all love the same things!!

Guilty

Better than Lambrini I suppose...

Every time this thread gets done people say La-a and I shit you not. I don't know which winds me up more.

I used to find these hilarious (part of me still does) but I've learned to be very careful for at least two reasons:

1. I know a D h i l l on (Dylan) , a T e e g a n and a T a i l e r (Tyler). All three children are adopted. Their adoptive parents didn't choose their names and the children have already had enough to deal with in their lives without name mockery being added to it.

2. I know or know of a Tomas, a Danyal, a Jorja, a Weronika, a Melloney and a Josef. They are all perfectly legitimate foreign spellings but frequently get mistaken for misspellings which must be really annoying and is rather small minded.

Also - who gets to decide what's legit and what's not? At some point Rachael, Rebecca, Katy, Claire, Anne, Hanna, Kathryn, Alys, Katrina, Zoey and many other names might have been considered 'wrong'. Now they're just variants. Names like Darcie, Lexie, Hollie, Mollie, Lucie and Daisie are now becoming more and more accepted. How long before Alyvia, Aymee, Ezmee, Kaelee, Alfee and Jaxson follow?

I wouldn't choose a spelling that unusual personally but I now think that once a spelling is given to a child then it is a spelling of that name.

Jaime is a perfectly legitimate name, there are a few female Jaimes. Jaime Winston, Jaime King (actress) Jaime King (Swimmer), Jaime Murray. I myself am a Jaime :)

I know a Soffee (Sophie)

Strangely enough, her brother is called Willyum

Forgot to mention I know a Charleigh (she's 34)

When accused of names being wrong it's just a sign of people unwilling to allow language to grow and expand

I think it's a fair point about language evolving - but it seriously does irritate me when the new spelling used doesn't make sense phonetically.

There is a difference between language evolving, and suddenly deciding to spell Olivia 'Aallivyah'.

deciding to spell Olivia 'Aallivyah'.

Aallivyah just doesn't look like it should be pronounced the same as Olivia. "Aal" and "Ol" don't normally have the same sound, for starters.
Whereas something like Esmai (Esme) makes sense. It's easy to see what the name is and probably stops people using the (presumably unwanted) Es-Me pronunciation.