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"unique" spellings *cringe*

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ReginaPhalange89 · 23/10/2018 14:51

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

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ReginaPhalange89 · 24/10/2018 15:48

Sorry but not liking the way someone chooses to spell a name is absolutely NOT racist, I don't care how many times you say it. If I said I don't like the name Rachel spelled Rachael (just an example! Don't mind either spelling!) How does that make me racist ?

You're obviously trying to start a keyboard war by saying that, so I'm not going to bother replying anymore !

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Failingat40 · 24/10/2018 15:59

Referring to a name as 'mutilated' is obviously upsetting for someone with that name

Please read what I wrote more carefully before spouting more nonsense. Mutated is what I wrote. Not ‘Mutilated’ 🙄
If you’d care to google Alyvia, the name is classed as a ‘mutated’ variant of Olivia. Perhaps you’d like to vent your displeasure at the websites too? Or perhaps you’re being massively sensitive about this subject.

Your response is "f you" - more aggression and unpleasantness.

Again, you read what you want to see rather than what I wrote. ‘Fuck that’ is not ‘Fuck you’. I do hope you’re not in a job where accurate reading and comprehension are required.

Perhaps you could brush that big chip off your shoulder now and pop off to a less triggering thread.

Sarahjconnor · 24/10/2018 16:22

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DunkandEggAgain · 24/10/2018 16:27

I was reading "This Will Hurt a Bit" (humorous journal kept by an overworked junior nhs doctor)
I proper gasped at reading that one of his patients named her child Sayton (pronounced as Satan!), while another named her baby LaSanya - pronounced exactly as lasagne...!
The bloody horror!

ReginaPhalange89 · 24/10/2018 16:33

Well @Sarahjconnor I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like it if someone implied that you were a racist , would you ?

My views on how someone spells a name are 'vile' according to you. I think you might be the one who is overreacting hun ! 😂

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Sarahjconnor · 24/10/2018 17:25

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Thenewdoctor · 24/10/2018 17:29

How do you think I feel getting the sideeye and the sneer and the “are you sure” when I soell my name?

Thenewdoctor · 24/10/2018 17:34

Fml

Spell

ReginaPhalange89 · 24/10/2018 18:25

Well I don't appreciate the accusation , and I think getting from "not liking unique spellings of common names'" to being a racist was a bit of a stretch on your part.

Race and nationality never came in to my comments but I'm sorry to anyone who is offended by what I said. I've asked for the thread to be deleted but don't know if it will be .

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Thenewdoctor · 24/10/2018 18:29

I have not directly called you a racist, but it is unconscious bias and classism to sneer at and make fun of and roll eyes at different spellings.

Especially when that spelling is simply the correct one in another culture or language.

Ioki · 24/10/2018 18:40

I almost made one of these threads the other day - on Facebook and saw a mutual friend had named their baby boy ‘Mawgan’. I thought it was a ‘yooneek spelling’ until I googled and found that it’s not - it’s a name in its own right. Tail between legs moment there!

Sarahjconnor · 24/10/2018 18:43

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ReginaPhalange89 · 24/10/2018 18:44

As I've already said (multiple times) the names I mentioned in my post where not given to babies of different cultures or languages , I'm sure you're fully aware of what I'm talking about . There's a difference between giving your baby a name from your culture and just adding in random letters to make it 'a bit different' (like changing your name to Staciee instead of Stacey).

I stand by my opinion. And I'm done commenting on the matter so let's move on :)

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Furrycushion · 24/10/2018 18:50

Isn't Rebekah the biblical spelling?

LexieLulu · 24/10/2018 18:51

Riley spelt Ryelee

Cosmoa · 24/10/2018 18:55

@AnaChocolatte oh yeah! Of course...

“P as in Phoebe

H as in hoebe

O as in oebe

E as in ebe

B as in b-be

and E as in… ‘ello there, mate!”
Grin

I hope you know what I'm on about hahaha

ShimmeringIce · 24/10/2018 19:36

624 different ways to spell Catherine?? How? I could imagine around 50...?

YerAuntFanny · 24/10/2018 19:40

There's a Leighum (Liam) and a Leighah (Leah) in my DC's school.

I overheard a teacher double checking how to pronounce Leighah, her Mum replied that it was said just like plain old Leah but she wanted her to stand out from all the others because it was too popular 🙄

MarthasGinYard · 24/10/2018 19:43

I agree with you Op and could see just where you were coming from.

No racism 

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spuggi · 24/10/2018 19:56

There is a Deyzi in my daughter's class.

DrowsyDragon · 24/10/2018 20:05

Lwci is used in welsh as a welsh variant spelling for Lucy. It’s not my favourite welsh variant but that’s all it is. Edythe really is just a less popular variant. It’s not made up at all. Second the poster, lots of variants aren’t wrong they are culturally based. All the Sali, Alys, Mari etc here in wales aren’t cis we can’t spell.

DrowsyDragon · 24/10/2018 20:05

Think it should be lwsi though? Cos c is almost always a k sound in Welsh.

SputnikBear · 24/10/2018 20:08

I know someone with a grandchild named Taylah. One has to wonder what the parent is thinking when burdening their offspring with such a lower class shibboleth as a yooneek name.

LethalWhite · 24/10/2018 20:50

SarahJConnor - I take your point, but I think Op was making the original point about white british people calling their children 'yoonique' names.

Jamaican culture os very different from UK culture, as all cultures are different. People on here don't tend to laugh at Jamaican names, in the same was they don't laugh at traditionally African names like Blessing or Mercy, or Indian names like Suminder, though they are different to the white middle class 'norm'.

They do laugh at white people born in the Uk, who have no links to other cultures giving their child a 'unique' name or spelling as it is sort of the opposite of british reserve. I.e. it's seen in poor taste in the Uk (as I'm sure you know, as you are british!) to assume greater importance or merit than you seem to own, or to make yourself or your children seem important. So calling your child 'Royaltee' when you live in poverty and left school at 15 seems very ironic, and people love to laugh at the foolishness of others. Same with calling your child 'Alyvia' - the implication is your child is soooooo much better and more unique than all of the boring Olivias. Which, well, maybe they are, but its a bit of an embarrassing statement to make, especially if you aren't the sort of person other people view as 'high status'. Celebrities can get away it, as they have a high status in society.

American culture is much more 'look at me and how great I am', so I imagine it is more acceptable there.

I work with children, and I see a lot of side eye glances and smirks at some of the unique names for white british children, but I've never seen a child of a BAME background mocked for their name.

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