Would you tell someone they’ve misspelt their baby’s name?!

[CaptainCabinets]

A colleague has recently announced the birth of ‘Pheobe’ on Facebook and have since referred to the baby as ‘Pheobe’ several times.

Would I be awful to gently suggest the correct spelling or just hope it’s picked up on when they register the birth?!

Caoimhe is Kwee va if you pronounce it correctly

I thought that keeva and kweeva varied regionally?

My friend has spelt 3 of her 4 children's names unusually. One name she says is made up - but it's a Spanish name spelt incorrectly. The second is normal, the third is a weird spelling and the fourth is trying too hard to be oddly spelt.

All three mis-spelt children won't use their names and have been teased specifically about them in the past. My friend has a very short fuse when people use the children's preferred names or comment on the spellings. She has no difficulties with reading or writing.

Issac is the American spelling I believe. I have an Isaac and so many people spell it with the double s.

My dc2 has a Gaelic spelling of her name. I’ve had a health professional ask me why we’ve got the spelling wrong, to which I asked if they always believe they are right even when they are wrong. Always boggles my mind when folk feel the need to criticise. A name is exactly that, a name and all must have been made up at some point

Saoirse? Pronunciation anyone?

I believe its Sear-sha

Or something close to that!

Issac is the American spelling I believe.

Definitely not. Issac is wrong everywhere but it’s absolutely rife.

Aaron should be pronounced Air-on but most people pronounce it Arr-on. Why is this?
If you want Arron then spell it Arron!

In Hebrew it’s Arron not Airon.

This reminds me of when I was about 13 and read The Catcher in the Rye. I'd never seen the name Phoebe written down before so spent the whole of the novel thinking that the protagonist's sister's name was pronounced Phobe (rhymes with lobe). Oh, the shame when I realised. I won't tell you how I used to pronounce meringue when I read the Famous Five books

Mine was reading a book with a Siobhan in (I literally had to just say it to Google to remember how it's spelt).
I spent the whole no one reading
see-o-ban. Still stuggle to read shiv-on when I see it and definitely can't spell it to save my life. I still don't connect the two when I see it written down 😬

Yeah, that's a bit of a weird question, IAmBeyonce, since there is no official pronunciation and the double a almost never occurs in English. Where it does, it's pronounced "ah" as in aardvark and bazaar.

So you could perhaps argue that it should be prounounced Ah-ron. Although as stated above, in Hebrew, it is more like Arron.

If If you want Airon then spell it Airon! ;)

Lol my Dad said to my Mum he really liked the name 'Sy-oh-ban' when they were looking for a name for my sister. He didn't like the actual pronunciation of Siobhan quite as much haha

There was a Sheerley on a really old episode of Family Fortunes today.

Like early 80s

Thanks Cosmo I thought it was saw-sha...hmm...

Caoimhe is pronounced Kwee va down in County Cork but I've heard it pronounced Kee va elsewhere.

I love the name Sadhbh but most Brits would struggle to pronounce it.
(Sigh-v)

A lot of people are shit at spelling, I'm afraid. More and more all the time. And yes, it does matter, because the more standardised spelling is, the easier life is for everyone.

I had two Caoimhe's in my class at school. One pronounced it Kee va and the other kwee va. Much prefer kwee va
Saoirse is Seer sha (which means freedom) then there's Sorcha which my cousin pronounces Sur ika but my neighbour says Sore Sha and it can be said as Sore Ca
It's a minefield!

Years ago a work colleague and his wife had a baby boy. I was told the name but when said colleague showed me the birth certificate I saw one of the names was misspelt. Only one way to spell this particular name, the way they spelled it made it a totally different name ( one letter difference and both biblical names). I told him so and subsequently the certicate was changed and the matter never referred to again. I like to think I saved the child future embarrassment when his name was queried.

Jaime
Another non-English but legitimate version. High-meh is Spanish.

OP do check with them in a tactful manner.

I have a daughter called "Phoebe".

The number of families (some of whom went to good unis) who get the spelling wrong! It was never helped by the fact that somebody in the school office couldn't get it right either (so families would copy the error in birthday/Christmas cards). It REALLY annoys my daughter now she is older.

The struggle is real for people with odd spelt names - mine is Jovanne yet I've been called Joanne for the past 33 years because people assume it's a misspelling 😂

I think people misspell phoebe half of the time anyway!

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