Leighantyn!....

[RocketInMyPocket]

This is what Dsis wants to name her DD
Its a mishmash of Lee and Anton (important people to her who died).
I understand her reasoning, think it's sweet, but can't help that I think it's horrendous
What do you think?

I thought it was an alternative spelling for Leontine (or Leontyne as in Leontyne Price the opera singer). I much prefer these spellings to the one in the OP, sorry!

Antonella Leigh or Antonella Lee would be much better. or Leandra (the feminine form of Leander)

I really like Antonia Leigh
Leighantyn is very very odd indeed and doesn't sound nice

It's a terrible thing to do to your daughter.
Just, no.

Antonia Leigh is very lovely.

I knew a girl called Leighan once (she pronounced it Leegan).

Agree Leighantyn is a bit of a mish mash, but suppose the DC could just go by Leigh.

Just had a look at that Yahoo thread, someone suggested Leighton. It's not amazing but you need to be a good auntie and not let her be called Leighantyn. it's awful.

It's not honouring anyone, it's plain horrendous.

I dont like it at all

Antonia Leigh looks so pretty, I like it a lot! Definitely steer her towards that!

Its hideous sorry.
Why not just use Leanne and Antonia as middle names or failing that theres so many ways to use the names in a nicer way!

Trying manically to prevent this.
Have suggested Antonia Leigh, Leontine, Leighton and Leanne.
Fucking pray for me and of course DNiece

Leighton's a boy's name, isn't it? Still, better that than Leighantyn!! Antonia Leigh is infinitely better though.

Well done OP - maybe show you're DSis this thread? If she goes for the monstrosity that is Leighantyn - please at least try and get it spelled in some semblance of a normal way!

Love Antonia Leigh

Leighantyn is horrendous.

Random-person-on-street: Oh what a lovely baby girl! What's her name?
Rocket's DSis: Leighantyn
R-P-O-S: Bless you! Now what's baby's name?

I must admit I do feel sorry for your SIL. I lost my dad recently and when I found out I was pregnant with a little girl I wanted to find a way to honour him. The hormones and grief left me coming up with awful names, thankfully I found a reasonable way around it (I named her after my dad's mom) she is obviously striving to do something lovely but completely going the wrong way about it, I've been there!!!

I would suggest stop talking about it and she will hopefully change her mind soon.

Is there another parent in the picture? What does s/he think of this suggestion?

But how does it honour anyone to fuck about with the spellings of their names and ruin a child's life with the resulting vile mash up?

It is awful what is wrong with Leighanne? or Leanne?

PP's saying 'Leanne' is meh...

OP please stop this from happening! I've actually always liked my name. Encourage Leanne!!

I think the name is vile, but worse, a sister starting a thread about it all. How nice you are.

Grow up Think

Blimey.

DN has a name in the same sort of "um... how do you spell that?" category.

And I imagine our family's faces were the same as yours when told the name (in private, though, with much polite smiling to the future parents).

To be fair, you get used to it after a while, and most people shorten it to simpler name.

How are they pronouncing it - Lee-an-tin?

Sorry, but I don't think I am the childish one here.

Overhearing the name being used or it being the prospective name of some random baby is one thing, but there feels something quite mean about this thread based on the fact that it is your sister you are mocking.

Yes, Thurlow Lee-AN-tin.
We've had that too, a lot of raised eyebrows, and ' that's, um, unusual 's
I was just reading that Yahoo answers, there was a suggestion to spell it phonetically as Liantin which, while I still personally don't like the name , think that's marginally better than Leighantyn.