odd spellings/deliberate wrong spelling

[discobeaver]

Why do people do this? The name sounds the same, and all it means is the poor child will spend its life telling people how to spell their name, with people getting it wrong on cards and letters and forms and so on.

Sometimes I think parents get carried away and don't think about the implications of actually living with a name.

Sparkle - it is, the woman in question's DS went to a school where the other Matthews' names were spelled Mathew, hence why her DS was 'Matthew with the two t's'

I have a Jaeden who's registered name was Jae but he got so much stick at school being called gay jae that he changed it by deed poll to Jaeden. I really like it. I also have a daughter Baylee people think this is a made up spelling but actually it is the female variant of Bailey.

I saw a school newsletter with a girl (I assume) called Taelyr the other day

I was served in a shop yesterday by someone called 'Dorn'

Oh sorry my mistake

Another name at my DS nursery is a girl called Olivya

Worst I've seen - James... Jaimz

I've got the less common spelling of a name that wasn't trendy but seems to have gone nuts in the name stakes lately (oi gerroff my name yer buggers I dibsed it first :P) - annoyed me for years getting it spelt incorrectly and it's only now that I've passed the giving a shit stage about it since I'm fighting a losing battle. Annoyed me to death at school though!

Dorn? Oh FFS.

I see a Feebee born in my local paper the other day! lol

I have seen a 'neeve' and a 'shivorn' - 2 beautiful gaelic names

loving 'dorn' that's a corker and feebee.

I remember reading somewhere that a few hundred years ago, registrars were often not very literate and hence why names that are similar are often spelt differently (think Brown, Browne, Smith, Smyth etc etc). suppose that also applies to first names.

Am i right in thinking that registrars have the right to refuse a parent's requests for a name if its too far fetched??

The most inexplicably annoying to me so far has been Emmerleigh :/ During the course of a normal work day though, i hear about 20 'clever and original' ways of spelling names, and i cringe every time.

A teacher friend of mine taught a little girl who said her name was Whyvonnee. Turns out it was spelled Yvonne. Presumably her parents thought it looked nice written down but didn't know how to pronounce it.

Skipping- my cousin has a little Yves, pronounced EE-viz. Saw it in a magazine...

my ex name was Jaymz (james) i didnt understand why they just couldnt spell it normally

It's because they want their children to be on the x-factor.

Shoshanablue come join me on a thread to play guess who

My daughter has a friend called Jamimah (Jemima)

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