silly name spellings

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ESMAI!!!????

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

I can imagine Esmai's parents wanted to be clear that they wanted their daughter's name to be pronounced Es-may rather than Es-mee.

There are several Esmes amongst my DD's friends with very strong preferences about how their name is pronounced and I can never remember which one prefers which pronunciation.

Hmm I'm still sceptical but I accept there may be some le-as inspired by the urban myth but I'm still inclined to believe it's people making it up.

Actually I don't disagree with Esmai.

A lot of people of an older generation would pronounce Esme as Es-me.

In fact the first time I heard someone address their DD as "Es-mai" I thought "how pretentious to pronounce it like that!" because I had only ever heard it said "Es-me." These Es-mes were all old ladies, of course.

My DD has a welsh variant of a name, its a perfectly legitimate spelling but I do hope people don't think I'm a chav 😐

Aymiie

Yes, really.

Ah, I was coming on to say Chel-C.

Ironic how these threads are always full of people disapproving of other people's ignorance, and then quoting perfectly established / foreign names in support of their argument, thereby betraying their own narrow horizons.

Like Rebekah and Jaime.

Our school has

Mazie-Ella
Albi
Riely
Finnley
Kyson
Taighan

They make me cringe....but then so do ones like Jayden and Kayden.

I know an Albi who is Albanian, Hunting.

"Yooneek" spellings may sometimes be names which sound the same, but are spelled differently in other languages.

I have a very ordinary name with an unusual spelling. The only other people I know with my spelling are members of my family. I do judge people who give made up spellings, because I know what a PITA it is.

As someone with a unique /alternative spelling and a lifetime of correcting /spelling out my name YANBU

Yes, a boy. Sounds like a dog name to me.

I have a yooneek spellings of Kayleigh. There were 3 of us in my glass at school (thanks marillion) and I was the only yooneek spelling so often my teachers didn't spell it right AND I couldn't have pretty named plastic tat that other girls and boys had. I had a traumatised childhood because of this.... Now I love my yooneek spelling. I'm the only one on Facebook out of thousands thanks to my yooneek surname to!

thehunting is the kid actually named Albi? I thought that was an acceptable shortening for Albert. I know an Albi, and it's just a nickname like Liz, Libby, Beth can all be taken from Elizabeth.
On the other hand the Elizabeth names are now names in their own right but I would be a little at someone actually calling their child Albi on the birth certificate.

I used to work with an Elysia pronounced Elisha. I always thought it was weird. also knew of a phylissity once (felicity)

Oops, crossed post sanityclause

Some dodgy spellings actually look very pretty. It's the ones that are totally mangled that I roll my eyes at. Thankfully I've not come across any amongst DCs friends.

Language does change and evolve. However, sometimes it is not for the better!

The traditional spelling would be Janbü, I think, Paul. It's old Germanic for 'you have a point there'.

Afaik the actual name is Albi ItsMe

Esma, asthma, eczema

My name is Ann just that my (late) parents said they gave me that name so it could not be messed about with people who have known me years keep putting an "E" on the end, eventually I crack and cmention it am told that is the "correct" spelling, well not according to my Birth Certificate its not. My grandaughters name is not particularly complicated, but MIL (who is a bully we no longer have contact with) spelt it completely differently from day one, my OH insisted I mustnt correct her, eventually we had to because she sent various paperwork (bank) with the wrong spelling it caused problems, 7 years later she still spells it "her" way. OH is Peter, a huge amount of people call him Pe (not even bothering to pronnounce the T) and its sets my teeth on edge!