Spellings

[ouronlylight.livejournal.com]

On my list of favorite names, there are a number of names that are commonly spelled many different ways. I have favorite spellings for most of them, but then I thought, "What about other people?". And BOOM! Charity came up with another way to spam people with polls. ;)

[Poll #586178]

Comments

[anystupidname.livejournal.com]

Sarah/Sara
Sarah is prn as you'd expect. (Seh-Ra)
Sara, i've ALWAYS KNOWN to be prn Sa-Ra Which is pretty, but not where you're aiming.

I chose Other for M'iackaieylahaa because I think the child would be better off with the name of Spot. No offence, I just hate that name. With Michaela I thought it was prn Michella (Michelle-a) for some reason. Then when I saw the spellings I worked out what it was going to be.

[rockstargrrrlie.livejournal.com]

I hate the name Michaela too...I think it's because I hate the name Michael and I always just want to pronounce it Michael-ah, and then although Mikayla takes that need away, it just looks like someone wanted a name more creative than Kayla so they were like "oh, myyy Kayla! how interesting!!"

Ironically, my name is Michelle which is the female form of Michael.

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

I liked it somewhat 10 years ago. Now it's so overused it's insane.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

I know two people named Sara, one is my sister, where Sara is pronounced exactly like Sarah.

The difference on this I think is regional. I'm speaking of people in the Western U.S. I'm assuming you are elsewhere.

Sara is also pronounced differently when used by Spanish speaking people.