If you add random extra letters into a name, don't be pissy when people mispronounce it!

[BoobsOnTheMoon]

I met someone recently who has a young child with a name that is actually quite a old/traditional English name, rare but not unheard of. Almost the perfect sweet spot, you'd think.

When I heard the name I immediately said oh how beautiful, I love that name. Which then set the mum off on a big rant about how nobody can ever pronounce it. Strange, I thought, it's not that unusual and tbh it's pretty phonetic when written down.

Except I found out later via FB that the mum has added two letters to the name (a consonant and a vowel), in two different places, that make it look like you pronounce it completely differently to the way she wants it pronounced. It's not an alternative spelling (which the name does have a couple of, both of which are completely obvious how to pronounce). If you were to see it written down you'd add an extra syllable when reading it out! And probably mispronounce the one of the consonants because it's had a random other consonant put next to it for...no reason? She must just like how it looks

I can't say what the name is because this child is literally the only person in the world with the name spelled that way, I've googled it and got the total of 2 results (both of which refer to this child, via their hobby). The closest examples I can come up with would be calling a baby Phetier when you want it pronounced Peter, or Elixzabieth but wanting it pronounced Elizabeth, or Dharrien and expecting everyone to know you say it Darren.

Anyway I don't particularly care how people spell names but to then be huffy that it gets mispronounced is just silly, right?

Please tell us what the name is!

Yanbu people really do need to think about their child when they are picking these weird and random names

Oooh please just say what it is and put spaces between it then it won’t come up on google! 😂

I worked with someone who had a daughter called KaighLeigh.

Arghh, please at least give the normal spelling.

But yes, YANBU.

We need to know name, at least the correct spelling

Well at least I'd know how to say that!

I'm not posting the name. Even with spaces.

I wouldn't that could be kayleigh or Kylie

Yanbu. Weird and wonderful names just to be ‘unique’ are so eye wateringly pretentious and try-hard.

@feelingbleh Surely it can’t be anything other than Kayleigh… I hope!

@BoobsOnTheMoon even the normal spelling?

Who knows it could be pronounced Norman the way some parents spell names. I was thinking it could be Kylie based on the first 3 letters being Kai which as a name is pronounced Ky

Oh like this game!! Lhucsea?!

Can you tell us the normal spelling of the name? That wouldn’t be outing

Lucy

I assume Kayleigh ?
My friends daughter is Kayleigh after the Marriliion song.

A friend of a friend has a daughter, whose name is pronounced Olivia. Except it’s spelt with an -Aa at the start, and ends with -yah….. I can’t even remember what’s in the middle. Poor kid.

I also hate this. It's always been somewhat of a thing, people used to replace the Y on the end of a name with IE because they thought it was somehow more posh.

It's definitely escalated over the years, lots of unnecessary 'eigh', especially.

I read somewhere that people who add extra letters to their names are psychopaths, I wonder if this applies to the parents who impose it on their kids.

YANBU. My pet peeve is random umlauts. They change the pronunciation, as Mötley Crüe found out when they came to Germany…

Next option Pelhiliipiahha?

Lots of people don't understand the rules of spelling in English so they think it's fine to add extra letters or change them or decide on random pronunciations because they don't know what the letters they have chosen are supposed to sound like.

I find it annoying when people start these threads and then refuse to give the specific name. Just spell it with spaces!

Philipa

Its Marillion...unless you were being clever?!