silly name spellings

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ESMAI!!!????

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

I know a Sian pronounced 'See-Ann', a Karler and a Bethenay.

I don't mind odd spellings but I do wish people would think about how it will affect their children in future.

I work with a young lad with a very normal sounding name of 4 letters that his parents decided to swap the placement of the 2 middle letters ( it's not this but think Neol in place of Noel). No one asks the spelling because he pronounces it like there's no difference but everyone gets it wrong.

He's always being missed from emails etc and we have the conversation that always goes:
Us: Oh did you spell Neol's name correctly?
Customer: Yes I did
N: it's Neol not Noel
Customer:

It's absurd if the spellings isn't phonetically correct. An 'eo' doesn't make the 'o' sound in Noel. It makes an e-o sound as in Leo or an 'eh' sound as in leopard.
The same logic applies to putting an e at the end of a name, e.g. Brione. To me that would be pronounced Bry- own unless there was an accent over the e.

I do know somebody who spelled their little girls name Esmay, just to make sure it's always pronounced right - similarly with Esmees'!

My LO is 3 so can't comment yet on schoolmates names, but am a leader at a Rainbows group where they do all seem to (miraculously) have their names spelled properly! Insane number of Ellas/Ellies/Rubys though

Irish names make sense to me but then I'm from N. I. My dad has an Irish first name and it's always being mispronounced by people who aren't from Ireland North or south. My best friend's name has a fada so it really confuses people but to me it makes perfect sense.

If I was to have another baby and if it was a boy I think I would have Oisin (fada over the second i) on my list. I haven't yet worked out how to do a fada on my phone. I think it's a beautiful name and to some it might seem a bit feminine but I love it :-)

I came across a lovely young woman who's name when she introduced her self sounded like Dijon. I then saw it spelled and it was Theone. I like it She is The One!

I love the name Oisin

2nds - no fada for the Irish and no circumflex for the Welsh (on the mobile app anyway). I think we should protest

Oisin is a great name - love it

Yes, Salem, that's it exactly.

I know a Jorja.

The incongruous thing is, her sisters are called Lucy and Sophie.

I've got a very unusual name, I'm named after a very specific place in Africa neither of my parents have been to. Most days I'd rather not. My sister has an unusual spelling of Louisa, which is a legit spelling but not the common one. As an unusually named person, please try to give your children names which are easy to spell. A life time of pauses in the school register and spelling my name out (and people hearing my full name and going "what?") does not a happy time make.

I assume you're being sarcastic shrunken

So tell me, what is badly spelt about Jayden?

I can understand Siobhan spelt Chevaunne, if you've only ever heard it but never seen it spelt. I can't understand Siobhan pronounced Siob-han, though.

My DD has a friend named Isabecca - apparently her parents couldn't decide between Isabella and Rebecca.

I know a Jorga, which to me should sound like Jaw-gah but is pronounced by her parents as Georgia. I'm not sure she'll ever find a key ring or a mug with her name on.

As a teacher I've seen some crackers...

Jorja-Jai (Georgia-Jay)
Bloo (Blue)
Kielee (Kylie)
KC (Casey)

Taking the register shouldn't be this traumatic!

I remember at school having to research the meaning of your name. Poor Bloo, her name means toilet cleaner and rim block.

My name is spelled wrong. My parents, despite their various degrees (including a PhD and a degree in LITERATURE) decided that there was no use for the E at the end of the conventional spelling. Imagine Amélie spelled Améli. I spend half my time correcting people's spellings when they write my name down - once, at a summer internship in high school, someone must have inputted my name wrong on some database - they spelled my name the conventional way on EVERYTHING.

The worst thing is when people don't even decide to spell it the correct way, but decide to put a y on at the end instead.

Mihkeeleigh ..enough said.

I've [maybe naively] always assumed that most of the time there is a reason for unusual spellings (not just that parents can't be bothered to check how to spell the name). For example, either a foreign variant or some personal reason- I know one mum who gave her child an unusual spelling because her own (ie mum's) name had become very fashionable so she was always one of several in the class and teachers/classmates would use a variety of ways to differentiate that irritated her [eg like Sarah S, Sarah Smith, big Sarah, blonde Sarah etc].

A friend of a friend recently gave her son a very unusual name. Can't say it here as he may well be the only one. It's the name of a car too. There was much discussion on facebook (not all nice) so I googled it expecting to find that it was actually a name before the car or at least meant something profound and that this could be pointed out to stop all the sneering. It seems actually that the name was totally made up by the manufacturer to try to sound classy.

I taught a Tomy (which I first pronounced Toe-me like the toy manufacturer) and he was really annoyed that I didn't pronounce it 'correctly' as Tommy

Was it Peugeot?