silly name spellings

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ESMAI!!!????

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

What I find most amusing about the Le-ah thing is people blathering on about it being an urban myth when a poster has actually dealt with a person with that name.

Anjulyne

One of the staff at the nursery BabyDragon attended was called Anjuli. I wonder if it is actually a foreign name?

Is it true that in Germany you are obliged to choose from an official list of names/spellings? A system like that would curb this parental folly,

I have taught a Jesyka

On the subject of Le-ah, I think birth records show a L'a was born.

But name spellings change all the time - think of even minor ones like Isabeau and Ishbel to Isobel or Elizabeth, Sophy to Sophie or Alyss to Alice, where the older spellings would be frowned upon today. There are also many common names we use today, such as Olivia, Cedric and Wendy, that were invented by authors and playwrights. It is extremely rude to label names that continue this tradition of natural alteration 'chavvy' and equally ridiculous to freeze linguistic evolution at the time of a thankfully now discredited and undeniably snobbish 19th century research project.

A Facebook friend has a daughter called Liley-Mai. And a friend of a friend considered Harre but luckily people put them off.

It's really hard where the younique spelling doesn't doesn't have the right letters/sounds for the name. I saw an Elsi written down the other day. Now that's either pronounced Else Eye or Else I with a short I sound as in gig. Either way I cannot make the spelling say Elsie.

Someone told me the Le-a story at a party earlier this year as if they personally had actually met an eight year old Le-a. I was so excited to hear this tired old story out in the wild that I was hard pressed not to slam my drink down and shout "bullshit!", but in the interests of decorum managed to style it out with a poker-face.

Soup that's how urban myths get spread - by people making shit up. The fact that someone on mumsnet says they met one doesn't constitute evidence

Interestingly, Jessica ('conventional' spelling) was invented by Shakespeare, who also spelt his own name several different ways, so I don't think he'd mind about that name being written as 'Jesyka'. Reasonable standardisation is one thing, crystallisation is another.

On a previous thread birth records were searched and showed that a Le-a was born in the late 80s. What is not known is how it was pronounced.

I recently had to make certificates for a primary school class, they had a Daisie in reception.

It's not right. What is wrong with just Daisy?

We know a Liluck

Jaimeigh-Leigh
Iylah (Isla)

I may be remembering this incorrectly, but when I had my children (decades ago now), the registrar would correct the spelling of names? Was that the case? I have a hazy recollection that this happened at the time of registration.

Indeed. Or what's wrong with Days-eye or, even better, Daegesage?

Soup that's how urban myths get spread - by people making shit up. The fact that someone on mumsnet says they met one doesn't constitute evidence

And yet there is a L'a recorded in the UK birth records (for the late 1990's I think)...

Why not just say "You are a liar" rather than bandying about the phrase "urban myth"?

I've met a Britnee and Dayzee (siblings) through work

Since they only release names shared by five or more names in that year, how can you know that 'a' Le-a was born? By the same token it's quite hard to prove there are none, as my own name comes up as not recorded for my year of birth (presumably because there's just me)

My DD has a less common spelling of her name. It's not made up (well, the spelling obviously was at some point by someone, not us though) and I do regret it to be honest. I love the name and spelling but it's constantly being misspelled. Along with the "isn't that a boys name?" being thrown out there all the time. But DH chose the name and there's a personal reason behind it. I have a pretty normal name I'd say and I still have to spell it out for people so it's not just unusual names that have that problem.

Because the actual birth records have everyone. Obviously.

I read that thread recently SoupDragon. IIRC it mentioned a L-a born in the early 1980s, not a L'a from the late 1990s. I think urban myths come about from people half-remembering semi-plausible stuff and embroidering it to make a story.

nanny if it's any help, I believe Ann is the traditional English spelling. Anne is French.