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?!

If it was someone really close to me, like a sibling or lifelong friend, then I'd tell them.

Just a colleague though? Nah, not worth the potential aggro.

I dont see what you would stand to gain from correcting them. So at risk of upseting them. Wouldnt enter my head to say anything to the parents.

But if you feel the need to a quick text saying just checking im spelling the babies name right is it....?

Say something. She's either done by accident or is committing her child to a lifetime of spelling her name out - better she knows now how annoying that is for the child!

My mum is called Pheobe and is 70 . She has had a lifetime of people telling her her name is spelt wrong!

I’d want someone to tell me if I’d spelt the name wrong!

The kid will only get called Phoebe all her life anyway, will be a nightmare for official documents etc.

You could ask if it's pronounced like Phoebe, or if it's a different pronunciation. See what response you get.

Poor kid a lifetime of confusion. Recently met an elderly Jenifer who eye rolled about her long dead parents daft spelling of her name

I'd ask her how its pronounced in case it's different

I knew a woman who named her daughter Beau and got pissed off when everything presumed she’d had a boy. She insisted it meant beautiful in French. I told her it did, if being used about a boy

I'd tell them. I grew up knowing a Mellisa rather than Melissa who spent 28 years correcting people with the spelling before finally giving up and changing the spelling by deed poll.

I misspelled DD2's name in the announcement It's an Irish name but the anglicised version has the vowels the other way around (so similar mistake as in the OP). My sister was the only one to pick up on it, I blamed the post-section morphine

Someone from my school named her daughter Boux, rather than Beau. Correct me if I'm in the wrong but I'm pretty sure that it not a spelling of Beau.

I was desparate to say something when I saw it on fb but we hadn't spoken in years.

Isnt boux avenue an undies shop?

No I wouldn't is there such a thing as spelling a name wrong. There are no laws, are there. I mean granted Feighbeigh might be pushing it.
Plus when you pronounce Phoebe you say feebee You dont say Foebe , do you

My daughter is called phoebe and one of my closest friends writes pheobe in cards and presents tbh I just ignored it until my daughter told her that she's spelling it wrong 😂

I give you Kristofer 😕

I know someone who named her newborn son Jaime (Jamie)

She was relieved when someone pointed it out to her, and mortified too, as they had already announced his name

Kristofer isn’t too bad tbh, I think it’s actually a Scandi spelling of Christopher?

@Awwlookatmybabyspider but ‘oe’ in the middle of a word makes an ‘ee’ sound, like amoeba, coeliac, onomatopoeia. ‘Eo’ in the middle of a word is usually phonetic, like geode, deodorant. So the misspelling of Phoebe as Pheobe would read ‘Fee-obe’ instead of ‘Fee-bee’.

I honestly think she’s just misspelled Phoebe. So many people do it!

I have a Phoebe and a few people spelt it wrong on her cards when she was born ! I probably would ask the spelling rather than saying "do you know it's supposed to be spelled Phoebe" , in case she has chosen to do that (I don't know why anyone would though 🙈)

I'd just say oh just checking are you spelling it the traditional way of Phoebe or have you gone for a different spelling ....

A girl I went to school with called her son “Tayler”
We are Devon too so very West Country, so perhaps she intended it to be “Tay-lerrr”
Just looks funny to me and I think she thought it was the common spelling as lots of people on Facebook corrected her and she insisted it was the correct spelling for “Taylor” and now she won’t write his full name, just “T” or “Tay”.

A friend of mine named her daughter Ghislaine. She calls her Zhislayne but , I understand, the correct pronunciation is Gillayne. Has caused problems I understand.

I once saw a child’s name spelt differently by thr two parents announcing the birth on Facebook. Dorothy and Dorethy

My name is misspelled

Micheala instead of Michaela

I was forever correcting people on spelling AND pronunciation

I would send a text congratulating them on Phoebe and see if they reply actually it’s Pheobe

Jaime is a correct spelling.. Maybe not in the UK but it's not that weird. I actually much prefer it to Jamie!