Strange spellings of 'normal' names ...

[ghosty]

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 ...
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A member of our ante-natal class called her son Ethan. Lovely you may think, but she mentioned him one day and confused me as I thought she had changed it to Ifan (welsh ??)

purplemonkeydishwasher

My nephew is called T.J (not T.jay) it is short for Tony John, which are both his grandads names.

First Ive heard of Ethan meaning Ifan??

Tortoise, my DS2 is Zachary which I shorten to Zach (not that often as he doesn't like it being shortened). But everyone else shortens it to Zac, Zack, Zak, etc.

Just re-read my post and it makes no sense . What I meant to get across was that she can't pronounce her own son's name and calls him Ifan...on second thoughts, it's not even relevant to this thread...errm, well I didn't get much sleep last night, that's my excuse...

Ah!!

My DDs brother is called Ethan, very nice name

wb, my ds's name is welsh btw, Evan. Everyone always comments that it is slightly unusual but there are hundreds of 'em in Wales !

Just remembered, I used to know a Kurtrina
Brother was Bifford

I know of a Shallot - pronounced Charlotte

Bifford

I knew an Aless (pronounced Alice) and an Alason.

lol @ bifford

since when has Alicia been prounounced Aleesha instead of Alyssia???thats what I would like to know

waterfalls - that makes sense! but these kids don't have 'real' names. they're just t-jay. WITH the hyphen!!

There is a girl in dd1's class called Chray - pronounced Sha - ray.

I always want to call her "Tray" .

katzg - I also have a Phoebe which people are always spelling Pheobe, and once, Feebee!

My niece is called Mykayela (michaela) drives us potty I always have to check I've spelt it right. Her mum made it up becasue she thought it looked cool and unusual she just had a new baby and has called it vannexsa (vannessa)

why????/

We called DS1 a welsh version of a name. Only very close friends pronounce it correctly and the Welsh side of the family and hardly ANYONE spells it correctly!!!

DD we spelt awkwardly too!!! although the pronounciation is 'normal' and NOBODY spells it correctly!!!!

DS2 we used a normal name! LOL

The reason I used strange spellings was because I used to work in a hospital and it was the unusual names/spellings of names that you remembered. The hospital notes hardly ever got 'lost' because the name always stuck in your memory and people seemed to automatically know where the notes were or where they had last seen them!!

But by the time we got to DS2 we got so fed up with people never spelling DS1 and DDs names correctly we decided to make life simple for once!!!

I know a Dylon - like the fabric dye - LOL!!

My friends dd is called Che pronounced Shay

but that's how you say Che anyway isn't it? As in Che Guevara.

Is it?

Shes a ponce anyway, her name is Charlotte but calls herself renee

it is quite a poncy name though, even if that's how you say it!

I also know a Sharne

my fucked up druggie shaganythingthat walked bow legged cockeyed ex sil who slept with dh's brothers best mate, called her last child with my bil kaitland.

it sounds like elvis' second fucking home. stupid fckers