silly name spellings

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ESMAI!!!????

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

Apologies about the Rebekah spelling. I honestly thought it was one of those names that was spelt how it was pronounced. The reason for me thinking this is because i ve only know people with the spelling Rebecca and over the last 10 years or so was the first time i started seeing people spell it Rebekah.

Anyway i ve remembered another name

Ayprill which is Sophie Radfords daughter

Navy in this particular case...low iq and drugs

Jorja is a perfectly valid spelling from other parts of Europe, I believe.

I have taught a Kc.

Most of the time however I've come across interesting pronunciations of fairly standard names, presumably when the parents have only ever read the name and not heard it spoken.

I have met a Sian pronounced Sy-anne.

My parents met a family in the 60s with a daughter called Penelope which they pronounced Penny-lope (to rhyme with Hope.) My mother laughed because she thought it was a joke. It wasn't.

I am sure I read a thread years ago where a mother complained that everyone pronounced her daughter's name wrong - she couldn't understand why people put a z sound in the middle of Tamsin.

I know a family whose youngest child is called Ethan. But they insist it has a short E sound (rhymes with Bethan.) I imagine he spends his entire life correcting people.

I named dd using the older English spelling of her fairly common name-I prefer that spelling but she does kick off that she can never find a novelty item with her name on it. She has to spell it to people sometimes but it doesn't bother her that much yet.

I know a Tjay (as in TJ). I just don't get it. When I first heard they named their child that, I heard the 2 letters 'T' and 'J' and asked, 'What's it short for?'

It's short for bugger all. Tjay.

K-le (Kayleigh)

Imogyn (immediately makes me think of gynaecologist!)

Caylum

Cafferine

Maygen (Megan, but pronounced the way the Americans say it)

HATE stupid spellings of names. It doesn't make the child 'unique' it makes the parents arseholes.

I've had a lifetime of spelling my name out to people, even though it's spelt the traditional way. The traditional way doesn't seem to be the popular way.

DS2's name is spelt the traditional, phonetic way, but people seem to want to spell it with an "E" instead of an "A".

I officially give up.

Oh, Salem, it's just another one of those names isn't it? It's the whole Kayden/Kaydon/Bayden/Jaydon/Jay-Den and so it goes on. Same with the Ellie-May/Mai Georgia-May etcetcetc Sooooooo many variations on spellings and not helpful in any way to your child. I was pleasantly surprised to hear of a friend calling her new baby Arthur recently... And spelt correctly!

blokes we had a Teejay in our school. Just why?!

When you register the birth, I wonder if the registrar is allowed to comment on a spelling of the name, especially if they think the parents have made a spelling mistake?

What Wheels said.

I know someone with a Pheobe. I wish the registrar had told them to change it.

I'm a Sian, and my God for the last 30+years, Iv been, cyan , sigh-anne, Sean and my all time favourite was Stan. It's really frustrating. Looking here there seems to be a lot of us around. So why is it so hard to pronounce?.
Side tracked slightly there sorry op, in my dds class there is a summah, her mum had a shouty fight with another mum over the spelling on a invite, I also have worked with a Emily....spelt Emma-lea.

Thora, I have a Phoebe and that spelling really annoys me. Also Feebie.

It shows how daft things have got when someone named Hope is asked "how do you spell that?" Lol

Wheels Why, indeed! At least yours has a 'ee' in there.

A friend once told me about a Cymon (Simon). That was a new one on me.

I agree Rebel. I've seen some shocking spellings for the most normal names.

Cafferine

No way! Is this for real???

I was watching a Michael McIntyre stand up and he was talking about names. Member of the audience said his name was wayne. But it was spelt Wain.

I'm a variant of Amy

A previous flatmate was called Aimie and I think that's really pretty but I couldn't be arsed with constantly spelling it for people. I have a boring classic name that crops up frequently on the baby names board and I'm quite happy with it!

Admitedly not english names but I have come across the following in my time

Anas (pronounced an-ass)
Fokrul
Arshad
Kaamaalaadiin (Kuh-mal-uh-din)
and Hallelujah-praise-the-lord

And ofc the unforgettable and sadly very real La-a pronounced Ladasha