silly name spellings

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ESMAI!!!????

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

NotYounique Jaime Lannister

Coming from some one who wrote I have a 11 year old brother called Sean (a perfectly legitimate , in fact the Irish spelling of his name) and the teacher smacked my bum and crossed it out and told me by eight I should know how to spell and wrote Seven (no that made no bloody sence to me either but I'd just got smacked so didn't argue) threads like this kind of do my head in!

Then my step brother and sister insisted his name was spelt Shaun - nope wrong again.

The fact that one of the very first "wrong" names suggested was Rebekah which is actually the older form of the name.

I'm often asked if my name is ie or y. Both are acceptable

People can spell their name how they like

I agree about the evolution of language. Some of these spellings will be adopted further, some of it won't

It's slightly different but my boss and I once interviewed someone, and the name on their CV caused us to have a discussion beforehand about how it should be pronounced. We both thought totally differently. So at the start of the interview, my boss said "please forgive me, but how should we pronounce your name, is it 'x' or 'y'?"The interviewee said "oh it doesn't matter really, I like both".

... I appreciate bring keen to please but please tell us your name?

I also know of an Oliwer, which I think looks and sounds weird

I think Oliwer is the Polish version of Oliver.

RebelRogue He is an odd woman

There is also Jaimie Alexander but that is yet another spelling. Got to say I prefer "my" version of the name spelling than the regular

It is drama. Same as oliwia. Not weird at all.

Elisabeth is the authorised Biblical spelling. It is also the original spelling, as it derives from the Hebrew name, Elisheva (S there, no Z).

It is said that Queen Elizabeth I made the Z spelling the more common in England, which is why it is now the familiar spelling in English-speaking countries like the UK, USA, Canada etc.

Elisabeth however, remains the familiar spelling in most other European countries (and further afield). It goes without saying, that Elisabeth also remains an acceptable English variant. (Dare I say, it's the nicest spelling too?!)

I've just checked the birth records up to 2006 (as I think someone did on a previous thread).

There's just one Le-a, born in 1981, Le-ah as a middle name in 1996, and not a single La-a (although there could have been some after 2006, of course).

Go away with your facts, Linzer. It's an urban myth!

Sorry, Soup! But I can't claim that the dash is actually being pronounced - there are quite a few Le-anns and Le-annes, and I'd be very surprised if any many of them are pronounced Ledashann.

Right. So there is one le-a (pronunciation Unknown) born in 1981 yet dozens of mumsnetters have met children named le-a and la-a in recent years?
Not sure why you think that means it's not an urban myth soup

When we chose a name with several variant (conventional) spellings, I did a straw poll to find the one most people would use by default before deciding that was obviously the one to go for.

I know of a child whose first name was Katie-Price. Yes. Double-barrelled just like that. She had a sister called Princess.

yet dozens of mumsnetters have met children named le-a and la-a in recent years?

It's not dozens is it? Not even close. Anyway, I believe that the age and approximately location implied it was the same girl/young woman for some MNers.

Not sure why you think that means it's not an urban myth soup

Why are you confused? It's really not that hard.

Not even the Snopes link claimed no child existed with that name at all, just that the particular story they referenced seemed to crop up for different locations. Why are you?

Anyway, this has got ridiculous given there are records of that spelling. I'll leave you with your straws.

One or two records of that spelling, possibly. But no proof that it's ever been pronounced Ledasha rather than Lea.

Øliver instead of Oliver. His mum hates it being pronounced properly as in Ou-liver.

How does she feel about it being sorted alphabetically after Z and Æ?

I'm an Amy,but have often been asked to spell it or it has been written down as Aimee before (and when I was a child there was some very wacky spelling of it that I can't even remember)
Considering I am in Ireland (where we don't seem to have as many unusual spellings of names),I assumed that most people would know how to spell it...even when I had hospital appointments last year none of the doctors (who admittedly weren't from Ireland) could pronounce Amy properly
And don't even get me started on my surname-it's an unusual but traditionally spelt (non-Irish) surname but the 'y' in its silent so lots of people leave it out,which is really annoying

I know of a person from school who spells her name as 'Chloie' -apparently her parents wanted her to be unique or something weird like that she's an odd person anyway so she's certainly unique needless to say,everybody spelt it as Chloe,much to her annoyance

I was also shocked to be introduced to a group of children one day and hear that the first ones name was Beyonce she also has a sister/cousin (I'm not sure which!) called Rihanna Admittedly they come from a big traveller family but still

These days there are so many "unusual" names that in my area (v. Middle class village) it is more unusual not to have an what would have been considered unusual when I was a child) name.

There are really all sorts of names at my DS's nursery, and it's lovely.

When I was at school there were 3 other children in my class with my name, 4 Christopher's, multiple Adams, Lauras, Catherines, James etc etc. I'd much prefer an unusual name than share a name with someone in my class!

MamaBear you just made me think of Rihanna-Brogan O'Carroll-Kelly with the cousins! (Apologies if that makes no sense, since you're Irish I thought it would).

Also if people are wondering how Irish names are pronounced here are some of the most common ones and their pronunciations here you go

*Niamh is pronounced Nee-v
*Aoife is pronounce Eef-a
*Sinéad is pronounced Shin-aid
*Siobhan is usually pronounced as Shiv-awn but sometimes is pronounced as Shoe-awn
*Sean is pronounced Shaw-n
*Oisin is pronounced Oosh-ean
*Tadgh is pronounced Thai-igh
*Maeve/Maebh/Meabhb is pronounced May-v
*Donnachadh is pronounced Donn-I--cah
*Siabh/Sive/Siabhb is pronounced Si-v
*Aoibhinn/Aoibheann is pronounced Ay-veen
*Caoimhe is pronounced Ku-wee-va
*Michéal is pronounced Mi-hall
*Róisín is pronounced Row-sheen
*Áine is pronounced Awn-ya
*Gráinne is pronounced Grawn-ya
*Fionn is pronounced Fi-un
*Erin is pronounced Air-in
*Blaithin is pronounced Blaw-heen
*Blaithnaid is pronounced Blaw-nid
*Eileen is pronounced Isle-een
*Ciara is pronounced Keyr-a
*Máire is pronounced Mawr-a

That's all the Irish names that I can think of at the moment (the joys of living in Ireland with its many unique names...)

I have a fairly common name and there's an easy 6 variants on spelling. None is my spelling. I cant post it as it will out me I've never met a person with the same spelling ever in my 30 years. A facebook search brings a small handful up but seems to be mainly americans with that spelling.

Its been a nightmare especially in school when teachers didn't believe me and thought I was writing my nickname down.

Thanks mam for allowing dad to register me and spell my name how he pronounced it... When married id like to switch to my middle name which is short traditional and simple and much more matched to me.

ruggerhugger I don't think I get that (is it something to with Ross O'Carroll) but I'm only a childless girl in their late teens so I'm probably too young to get it are you from Ireland too

And another name for my pronunciation list
*Brona is pronounced Brone-a