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audiobiblio.livejournal.comWhat's your absolute LEAST favorite alternate/"creative" spelling of a name? The one that makes you cringe when you see it.
Mine? Jaxson. But honestly, my feelings about that name run a little deep. My 9 year old would have been named Jackson if she'd been a boy... it was the name that I had "waiting in the wings" for years before children were even really a thought. You can thank Steel Magnolias for that one. Anyway, a year after my daughter was born, my cousin used the name for one of her twins. So when I had my son, I wasn't able to use it. Granted, the popularity of it has turned me off a bit and maybe it's for the best, but I'm still a little sad about it. So when I see people taking a name that I really like and spelling it like THAT?!? I get a little ragey.
And on the flip side, what's an alternate spelling that you actually like?
I go back and forth on this so much, but my name is an alternate spelling of Ashley (Ashlie) and I've grown to like it over the years. My parents did it because Ashley is a gender neutral name, particularly in England where my mother is from, and my dad thought that the "ie" looked more feminine. As a kid, I hated it because no one ever managed to spell my name properly. But now that we live in an age of all sorts of "creative" names and spellings, it's one of the least difficult to grasp. And consequently, when we named our daughter, we did the same thing... took a gender neutral name and replaced the "ey" with an "ie".
Mine? Jaxson. But honestly, my feelings about that name run a little deep. My 9 year old would have been named Jackson if she'd been a boy... it was the name that I had "waiting in the wings" for years before children were even really a thought. You can thank Steel Magnolias for that one. Anyway, a year after my daughter was born, my cousin used the name for one of her twins. So when I had my son, I wasn't able to use it. Granted, the popularity of it has turned me off a bit and maybe it's for the best, but I'm still a little sad about it. So when I see people taking a name that I really like and spelling it like THAT?!? I get a little ragey.
And on the flip side, what's an alternate spelling that you actually like?
I go back and forth on this so much, but my name is an alternate spelling of Ashley (Ashlie) and I've grown to like it over the years. My parents did it because Ashley is a gender neutral name, particularly in England where my mother is from, and my dad thought that the "ie" looked more feminine. As a kid, I hated it because no one ever managed to spell my name properly. But now that we live in an age of all sorts of "creative" names and spellings, it's one of the least difficult to grasp. And consequently, when we named our daughter, we did the same thing... took a gender neutral name and replaced the "ey" with an "ie".
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