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

My dad calls Dolgellau Dogglydoo 😂 I have no idea how he came up with that one!

He doesn't even try to pronounce where I live, it has fourteen letters and a distinct lack of English vowels. He just waves his hand airily and says "Calibrate lives near (much easier to pronounce and spell for non Welsh speakers place)".

That's how Isa and Ava are pronounced in German. Possibly in other languages too. Dutch maybe?

In a previous job I learned quickly to check the spelling of all names before looking them up, even the most apparently straightforward. One day, checking whether 'Casey' (my assumed spelling!) started with a C or a K, I was shouted at, for being stupid I guess, that it was obviously KC - yes just the 2 initials were the full name - which I could only relate to KC and the Sunshine Band! Most folk I know using initials as their everyday name do seem to have a full name of some sort eg Alan Junior being AJ.
Years back though I met someone having twin girls who said both would seem to have the same name - spelled the same - but one pronounced Michaela and one Mik - eye - la- I don't know if such gets passed a registrar.

Not on the poster I saw in the office, no. I did consider that in an earlier post in the thread. 🙂

I know of a Jayson and a Summah-Belle. Both have otherwise normal parents but I cringe every time I write their names.

My name has an extra letter in it, which causes all manner of confusion, although I was told by a historian that it is the traditional spelling of my name. I just wish my parents had kept it simple.

I made the mistake of calling Iris in the standard way, she pronounced it as Eeeris eventhough it was spelt the usual way.

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

I blame the ‘Amy’s’ for starting this 🤣 I’m a millennial and we had so many in school that they all had different ways of spelling it. I have an Aimee, Amie, Aimie and Ami all on my Facebook and they definitely all began primary school with it spelt the ‘normal’ way 🤣

Was a white family

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https://www.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/s/yqchKGlsYU

As a card-holding member of the “Caribbeandashdiaspora” who is very immersed in the black British community, the only time I have ever heard “-“ pronounced as “dash” is when white people joke about black names. Common it is not!

I’ve just seen a Ryk. Maybe it’s short for Ryitchard lol.

That's an eastern European spelling. So let's keep this to actually ridiculous spellings, and not display ignorance towards other cultures?

It is quite usual for Hong Kong Chinese to have an English name and a Chinese name.

I had a friend from Hong Kong when I was a student and all of her family had very old fashioned English christian names.

On the subject of creative spellings I used to know someone who called her son Konner.

Ryk is Polish.

Yes @tulippa has already been corrected by multiple people. Thank you. She learnt something new yesterday. 🙂

If it’s not unique then why is it a problem? Surely the main argument of these weirdly passionately-hateful, snobbish threads are that they are unique? A fair few ‘traditional’ names have different spellings. Where’s the vitriol for Clare also spelled Claire or Clair? Zara and Sara? Aron, Aaron, Aran and Arron?etc. Hugh and Huw? Lesley and Leslie? Mary and Mari? Rosemary and Rosemarie? And dozens and dozens more.

Why do you assume the parents were trying to be clever? Do you often get angry and offended at the choices other ppl make that do not affect you at all? Do ‘alternative’ ppl who dress differently make you inexplicably rage inside? Maybe you should consider counselling.

RTFT for FFS. 🤦

German. I know loads of German Annas. I also used to work with a Ukrainian Anna.

The other way round here.
I know a Danielle pronounced Da-Neil

I think that was originally pointed out about 12 hours ago, and then fairly regularly. @tulippa is indeed grateful and she's very pleased to have learned something.

Did you learn something new yesterday? I hear that Kacper is a Polish name.

That's how it's pronounced in German. My partner is German and one of the reasons I ruled out Iris for my daughter is because I can't stand the German pronunciation.

But this Ryk isn’t. I know his family. Accepted they may have borrowed it though.

My daughter used to talk about a little girl at nursery called Oceania. I thought that is unusual, quite pretty though. Then i saw it on her peg. It was O'Sheayana. O'Dear!