silly name spellings

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ESMAI!!!????

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

I first read about Catherine Withersea in Readers' Digest in about 1982.

My Mum used to have a dog, named Phydeaux! :)

Piggy, that is the wankiest spelling for a simple name I've ever known lol

I called my smallest one Mathilda. I was expecting to spell it Matilda as Roald Dahl spelled it but when I was snuggling with my newborn the midwife called from the kitchen - "is that with or without an 'h?" I called back "without" as husband replied "with". When he showed me it was the original Germany spelling we went for the 'h'. I like it :-). Never thought Id have a kid with a wanky name and love it! The oldest is called Harold! (I know - It's awful!!!!) We call him Harry and it just works ;-)

ItsSianNotCyan - I am perplexed by the male equivalent of Sian i.e. Sion. I was always taught that it's pronounced 'shone' but lots of Sions call themselves 'Shorne' i.e. like Sean or Shaun. Please advise!!!

Don't know about Sion .....

....but I taught a La-v-ca some 10 years ago. Kids in class all corrected me in a resigned tone when I couldn't work to how I was supposed to pronounce it. Seems so obvious now.

Aussie. I believe it's pronounced like Shown but with a shorter vowel sound.

Yep, I agree - chav, chav, chav!

Queen how on earth do you pronounce La-v-ca??

Siabh/Sive/Siabhb is pronounced Si-v
*Aoibhinn/Aoibheann is pronounced Ay-veen
*Caoimhe is pronounced Ku-wee-va

Sadhbh is the spelling - pronounced to rhyme with 'five'.
Aoibhinn or Aoibheann can also be pronounced with a long E: EE-ven. There should be a difference between the endings of Aoibhinn and Aoibheann: the -inn ending is 'inn' while the -eann ending is 'ann'.
Caoimhe can be pronounced Queev-eh or Keev-eh

Rebekah is THE traditional spelling, hundreds of years old. Rebecca is an updated english version!

Typhane

^^^Errrrr Tiffany?

Ha ha I was reafong it as "Ty Fane" not Tiffany!

Reading not reafong..... Now there's a name ..... Rea-Fong

Shrunken, Ty fane looks more like it than Tiffany does. Typhane looks like a new discovered illness.

Yup it's Tiffany. I read it as ty fane too

Can I just ask where Freyja is a traditional spelling? I thought as in a norse goddess, the traditional spelling is Freja?

I know a guy in his early 20s called Darn. His son is Darn Jnr on birth certificate. Can't say his name without thinking of mending socks.

I'll see you all and play my........
SPARKLE

I'll see you all and play my........
SPARKLE

Please tell me that Sparkle is female?

Yeah, dear god that better be for a girl.

Someone I know once taught a boy called.....Firefly.

Yep - Sparkle is a girlie. Let's hope she doesn't grow up to be curmudgeonly, dour and dull