"unique" spellings *cringe*

[ReginaPhalange89]

Sorry if I offend anyone but I just don't get it.

I've just seen these name spellings on Facebook....

Edythe and Alyvia. I'm assuming pronounced Edith and Olivia. Whhyyyy

Any one else find themselves wondering if maybe the parents just didn't know how to spell the name properly?

I have to confess to quite liking unique spellings on the provision that you can you're not looking think WTF is that. I mean what they fresh hell I'd Edythe. egMy dd is Molly I wish I'd have been a bit more adventurous now and gone wit h some thing like Molli Molleigh. I know of a Keli once which I thought was lovely.
If someone hadnt have pointed out that it WS Edith. I'd have been saying Eddy-the.

'dd is Molly I wish I'd have been a bit more adventurous now and gone wit h some thing like Molli Molleigh.'

Really?

Why on earth?

I’m related to a Lexii.

Just why?

'Female' was the name of a prostitute in an old 70s cop film. I forget which one.

'Lexii-Maii' and 'Armarnii-Raii'. Seriously.

I worked with a Niel pronounced Neil. Spends his lifetime saying no it's ie not ei and not receiving his emails...

@patienceofatoddler no, I think they think they're just really cool 🙈😂

Please read the whole thread. You risk looking ill-informed otherwise.

As I and at last one other poster have said, Edythe is not a 'fresh hell'. It's been used since the 19th century - the time when Anglo-Saxon names, including the original - Eadgyð - became newly fashionable.
Edythe is at least as accurate a modernised version of the original name as Edith.

Any one else find themselves wondering if maybe the parents just didn't know how to spell the name properly?

The interesting spelling I know of is because the Mum didn’t know how to spell it, so just guessed.

Why wouldn’t you just Google!? It’s up there with those people who get misspelt tattoos because they don’t proofread the text.

Heard you the first time @florascotia2 🙄 never seen/heard it that way, still dislike it even if it isn't actually made up like I thought it was.

I've just seen a little girl's name dottiee 🙈😂

It's Edith.

My DS has an easy to spell, relatively popular name. Think Joseph not Joseph and I’ve been asked so many times either how to spell it or if I’m spelling it the traditional way. The most commonly asked question is “is that ph or...?” How else would you spell it. Then I worry how else people have spelt it to try to be different

Everyone - unless you are simply awfully ignorant snobs, as PennyMordaunt etc says, one can always Google:

www.behindthename.com/name/edythe

www.oxfordreference.com/abstract/10.1093/acref/9780198610601.001.0001/acref-9780198610601-e-994?rskey=MjRH2u&result=2051

or even
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edythe

Youve

Josef is common in Eastern Europe and therefore Eastern European’s living in the UK, imagine that’s why you’re asked.

Maybe Joseph was a bad example. It’s not DS real name. Think Adam then and being asked if it’s ‘am?’

This is not a new thing though. DM taught a Kollet (Colette) in the 1970s. I taught a Kci (Casey).

I've heard of an Aiden spelt Aden, because the parents didn't like the i.

Also a Kye instead of Kai because his parents didn't know how to spell it and guessed. He says "they guessed wrong!" and laughs (this was before Google).

I don't like Rylee, Lexii, Charlee etc but it's just a personal thing.

I met someone recently who has two VERY unusual names for her kids (too outing to put on here). When I asked where she found them she said "I made them up".

I once met a Reebekha (Rebecca)

Saw someone who was hellbent on calling her unborn daughter 'Lwci' on Facebook the other day. Lucy. For the love of god just call the poor child Lucy.

I cane across”Gorjeana” recently.

This thread utterly drips in snobbery.

Sometimes i'm really put off by Mumsnetaz.

If it's on FB then is it possible they are using a unique spelling to avoid being found?
I use the original Gaelic spelling of my name online but the Anglicised version is my legal name - stoops me getting hassle from "service users" at my work.

@BloomsButtons what? Sorry to derail but how is this a thing that I haven’t heard of ? (Don’t judge me, I was a teenager when the twilight thing was happening)

Ugh snobby!