Spellings

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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

[rockstargrrrlie.livejournal.com]

I believe (this is from years of reading baby name books) that Kathleen was the Anglized version of the Gaelic Caitlin...It was the easiest way to get a similar/the same pronouncition, but spelled differently. Eventually, Americans heard the name Caitlin via the poet Dylan Thomas' wife. I'm fairly positive she DID pronunce it "kate-lyn" for whatever reason.

[rockstargrrrlie.livejournal.com]

and by "for whatever reason" I mean that I don't know WHY she personally pronounced it Caitlin. I don't know anything about her background or how she got the name, I just know that my best friend Kaitlin is named as such because her mother heard the name growing up when she learned about Dylan Thomas.