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Strange spellings of 'normal' names ...

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ghosty · 17/04/2006 21:44

Do you have strange spellings for normal names of your children?
I was wondering why people do this ...
At DS' school there is a Jaxon, a Kaytee and a Tonee ...
[perplexed emoticon]

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MrsBadger · 17/04/2006 21:45

They are trying to be yooneek. It's a disease of modern life.

lockets · 17/04/2006 21:46

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kiskidee · 17/04/2006 21:49

some stereotyping here. as a teacher I found that kids with these strange spellings are by and large the poorly disciplined ones. can I say chavvy ones?

SaintGeorge · 17/04/2006 21:51

My DS1 has a slight variation in his name, 1 of 2 normal, accepted spellings.

Does anyone pronouce it right? - do they buggery. Keep putting in a letter that just isn't there.

Mumble, mumble, rant.

Milliways · 17/04/2006 21:51

I find all the "usual" versions of normal names confusing - eg Marion, Marian, Marianne
or Catherine, Katherine, Kathryne etc

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ghosty · 17/04/2006 21:52

I just feel sorry for the children having a life time of spelling out their names ...
"No, it is Jaxon with and 'x', not a 'ck' and no 's'"
"Tonee, no, not a 'y', a double 'e'"

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lilianna · 17/04/2006 21:53

dd is called kelli (kelly) spelt like this as myself and xh used some of both our first names.

Passionflower · 17/04/2006 21:56

Sooo not! That is chavtastic.

DD3 has an accent on her é though and no one pronounces her correctly. I think there is a prob with folks not knowing where to find it on the keyboard also because it is rarely typed correctly. Even though here we have many french spellings and imo there is no excuse.

Wordsmith · 17/04/2006 21:57

IME they tend to be the names that are spelled non-phonetically in the first place, like Niamh or Siobhan or Niall (all of thich are in my DSs class, spelled Neeve, Shevaun and Nyle).

Perhaps their parents never got past Jolly Phonics.

jenthehen · 17/04/2006 21:58

Can I join this thread and say that my dd is called "Lucie" we chose this spellng as it was from a Beatrix Potter book I was reading with ds whilst expecting dd and he said he would like it for the baby.
Ps I am a teacher and not a chav!!!

starlover · 17/04/2006 21:59

i really like Lucie.

my mum wanted to call me Lucie but my dad didn't like it!
I dont think it is a strange spellin... just an alternative

georginarf · 17/04/2006 22:00

Lucie is a proper spelling

not the same as 'kaytelynne', 'jorjeanar' etc. - can't stand that kind of thing

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hester · 17/04/2006 22:01

A friend of a friend recently called her baby Jorja (Georgia). Poor kid will spend her life enduring people telling her she has spelt her own name wrong...

tortoise · 17/04/2006 22:02

ds2 is zachary.shortened i write it as zach.everyone gets it wrong! zac or zak or zack!
dd2 is yazmin.that gets spelt as yasmine by people.

Passionflower · 17/04/2006 22:02

Lucie isn't a strange spelling.

SaintGeorge · 17/04/2006 22:02

Is your friend a CSI fan by any chance? Smile

georginarf · 17/04/2006 22:02

ah - like Jorja Fox who is in CSI

am quite keen on calling myself Jorjeanar now though.

ItalianJob · 17/04/2006 22:02

I like Jaxon with an x. maybe because it rhymes with Saxon so looks like a proper word?

georginarf · 17/04/2006 22:02

great minds st George, great minds...

SaintGeorge · 17/04/2006 22:03

Jorjeanarf surely?

kiskidee · 17/04/2006 22:03

do not confuse 'strange spelling' with less common spelling. two different things.

Jaxon, Kaytee and Tonee are not the same as Lucy/Lucie or Abby/Abbie kind of difference.

The TES messageboard has had hilarious threads about kids with silly names (and silly haircuts too) so I think it is more than a regional thing.

PrincessPeaHead · 17/04/2006 22:04

there is a 6 yo girl called Flyn in our village. misspelt AND the wrong sex.

poor kid.

modsaluk · 17/04/2006 22:05

my friend has called her little boy Jaymes not quite sure why she added the y ?