silly name spellings

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ESMAI!!!????

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

I don't get the posters who are horrified at the thought of the children not being able to get personalised headbands! You can't find a headband (or anything else) with my DDs name on in any shop and her name isn't "unique". It's perfectly normal.

Saw one today.

Now the name itself is bad enough but why spell it Armarney and add insult to injury???!!!

In my daughters school there is a Tyzon!

Tyzon? Why do you think it's a misspelling? What of? I would see that and just assume it was a name from somewhere outside of Britain.

Oh... I... geddit?!

Surely not after Mike Tyson?

Tyson Fury spells his name with an S tara so the "official" spelling is with an S

tara Tyson was a surname used as a first name that first seemed to appear in America in 1966 so well before Mike Tyson. So given it was a surname you go back to the origins of the surname. It's an English surname derived from the French Tison meaning Firebrand. So spelt with an S. It's not a name from outside Britain. Well it is in that it's popular in America but because of the surname that came from britan!

When Jack was a super popular name, I taught:
Jack
Jac
Jak
Jakc

The last is the worst kc doesn't make the ck sound!

I know a few people who have DC called Jessika, Jorja, Bekki etc. I don't stop to actually decide whether they are 'chavvy'. Those names are just spelt differently IMHO.

This kind of thought process fascinates me. I mean, why do people care why someone else spells their name differently? TBH, it's daft to judge a person for how they spell their name or what another parent called their child.

downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/wales/livinginwales/sion.mp3

50 pages too late, but this is how you pronounce Sion.

Upsidedown has it that's exactly how I feel

In DD2's nursery class there were two boys, Tyger and Diezel
Tiger and Diesel are bad enough as they are

And in the town I was own, a poor baby called Jaymz.
I see a pp has also come across a Jaymz too, so either we're from the same place, or there's 2 boys in the world lumbered with it!

Oh god violet, that is shocking [😁, bloody awful.

I wonder if Jaymz is Emmah's brother.

Le/a. Pronounced Le- dash- a OMG !

There were twins in the village I grew up in, in the early 80's, that were called Kyllee and Sharlyne. Mum was a big Neighbours fan...

Not spellings, but always amuses me, a mum at school with pretentions to grandeur has called her children v posh first names and given them middle names of Loveheart, Sweetheart, Braveheart and Lionheart.

yeah, but isn't

'Rae' has been a male name in every generation of my Father's family since 1766 (according to a very reliable family history site).

Oh, I forgot about this one too.

I have a DD called Ava.
DD has a friend with the same name, except it is written 'Aivah', which seems to defeat the object of trying to making a name phonetically correct, as it reads as Eye-ee-va to me at least

I would assume it is 'ai' as in snail, train, tail etc.

La/a

Aivah reads as eye-va to me too.

I met a kid called 'youme' a few years ago. Her parents were very keen to tell me that they'd heard the Japanese name but thought they'd change it as their baby would be 'a little bit of you and a little bit of me'. I think they practiced the speech to introduce themselves regularly!
Unusual names are fine but their other daughter was called a very ordinary name like Sarah.

That's a name that needs a hyphen. I'd have guessed at 'Yoom' I think. I do like the little speech though

I'd be unsure with Aivah - I'd wonder if it should be pronounced like Aisha.

Only in America?

This one's not too clever...