To not use proper spellings when naming your child

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Am I being unreasonable to think it's ridiculous to use a funky spelling of a normal name. I spent today dealing with lost paperwork for a child as the person that took the details didn't think to check the spelling as there is no other spelling of the name.

It looks silly and just causes no end of problems for the child. It also disadvantages them as straight away people get an image of what the child is like.

I've seen

Jaymz
Ezmay
Lil-leigh

Oh. Maybe.

I also know a Cobweb, I wonder if it's the same one? There can't be too many of them around. He has a brother with another unusual name from the same play

There's a gymnast (I think) called MyKayla

I always want to pronounce it as My Kayla but apparently it's Mick-ayla like Michaela.

😁

DD has a normal Welsh name but because it has a "y" in it, non Welsh people think it's a "youniiiqueh" name.

Crikey. How could nobody else have spotted that so far in this thread?

@tulippa will be very glad that she’s learned something new today.

Eh? Why??

Oh - it's pronounced PG. Simple me read it as Peggy.

We are one tiny island. There's a big world outside our shores, with different languages and spellings.
These threads always turn racist, though. All names and languages are made up. Names from the black community in the US were unique, because they'd been forced to forget their language, but didn't want use the names their owners decided to give them. They worked with the knowledge they had.
Why posters haven't googled the names before posting a lot of them, Is a mystery. A lot of the names in these threads always contain valid 'proper' names, they just aren't traditional white British.

This sort of name was a bit of a fashion in Puritan England too. I seem to remember some character called Praisegod Barebones. Not sure now who he was, but the name stuck in my head.

This thread absolutely got my goat to float.
I'm so glad at least one person learned something new today too....

My fav is a girl called: Trendy

How did we get from a silly spelling of Curtis to racism?

If Coeurtis is a name and spelling common in the Black community then I apologise. I just thought it was one of these Tradgedeigh spellings.

I'm with you, but then I don't even like it when people give their kids names that (IMO) are abbreviations of proper names. So people that name their kids Ed rather than Edward/Edwin/Edmund or Ellie rather than Eleanor/Elena.

This has come back to bite me as DS refuses to use the very old fashioned (but correct) spelling of his name that we chose, and instead uses the only possible shortening of his name that I hate. I totally support that what he wants to be called is up to him and I go along with it, but there is 5% (10%?) of me that thinks I wouldn't have named you A if I had known you were going to pick B.

🤐

I feel very justified in thinking “I will just scroll down to see if anyone else has said this before replying” 😆

Yes I have already been corrected by multiple people. Thank you. I have learnt something new today. 🙂

😂

That's not how Llay is pronounced. I suppose it's not as bad as those who claim Dolgellau is pronounced Dolly-galloo, or Llanelli pronounced Clanethly.

Have you been keeping count, @tulippa?

Yes I have already been corrected by multiple people. Thank you. I have learnt something new today. 🙂

I have seen an Auntwan; I assumed the parents liked the name Antoine but hadn't seen it written. Or maybe they had but just preferred a youneek spelling.

My mums colleague nagged her son ‘Leeum’ she was not very bright though.

"Youneek" has me howling!

Must be about 20? Just caught up with a couple more!

Dollygeloo used to drive me insane, as does Clanethly now 🤬 Betsy co-ed too.

I have seen this name..I'm a midwife and I literally thought I must be hallucinating when I saw this name on the notes.
I've seen some shockers over the years but Reignbeau is up there with the best of them😂

YANBU!

”Funky spelling” is a nice way of putting it!