I think I win the prize for the most craziest spelling of a first name ever -

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Abee. New child today at playgroup.

Why oh why oh why?

Abee or not Abee, that is the question
I knew a Ribekah once

Bzzzzzzzzzzz

am trying to beat it.

can't

There is a little boy Braxton at our playgroup!

As in Abigail (abi) ?

It's mad.

Another cracker I know is Chellea (instead of Shelly). It appeared on an invitation to a party and I had to keep saying the name over to myself until I deciphered it.

My sis went to school with a Jewlee.

Yes Abbey, Abbie, Abi, Abigail etc.

It's a lovely name just not spelt Abee. The mother is pregnant, I wonder if the new baby will be Buzz.

Zed?

Is that supposed to be Abby? Or Abbey, or Abi or Abbii or whatever it is nowadays.

I've come across an O'Steen

oh, x-posts, I see it is. Oh dear.

I see yours and I raise you a Jessycka and a Tieler

Hope Braxton's surnames isn't Hicks!

I used to work with someone called Endurance

and I know a Thierry-Leanne

No it's not hicks. His Mum claims she had never heard of them until she named him and everyone was asking the same question...

Here in Bermuda there is scarcely a child's name you can pronounce.

My son knows a (now you will have to forgive me for the spelling)

Dejolai
Ridge
Jaden
Outre

for starters.

There are mums at school called

Jonakia (pronounced Janeeka)
Norjean

A boy at my daughters school was killed in a road accident and my husband's boss mentioned it to me. I was mortified when I mispronounced his name.

His name is Djakarai (pronounced Dakaree, empahisis on middle syllable) and I called him Daquiri (like the drink)

It's a minefield, and it's really hard to try and remember names when you are introduced to people.

I went to school with a Chevon - took me years to work out it was supposed to be the same name as Siobhan!!

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Lucimai - which I like once I got over the surprise at spelling, the other children in the family have usual speelings - and Kaileigh which a teenager spelled out to me with a resigned expression.

Yes, Dejolai like sorry.
No, Outre and Ridge not related.

Bit of a French sound to a lot of these names isn't there?

Does anyone else think all these Abbees and Kaileighs and Aimais and Bynjymyns (ok, I'm just making them up now ) will grow up and have children called Tom and Bill and Fred and Ann

I would like to submit Emma-Lee for consideration.

Danyal.

I had a girl called Aimee in class, there was also an Amy as well so we called Amy ... Amy and Aimee we pronounced Aymaaaaay, I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be the normal pronunciation though and her parents had just ponced it up!