Some names/spellings from lately.

[seksimaggie.livejournal.com]

Sammanthia
Pron. like Samantha, goes by Sam. I think Samantha is gorgeous but this spelling ruins it.

Lynda/Lynnda
I don't really like Linda, possibly because of the extraordinarily conservative and self-righteous aunt Linda I have. But these spellings look awful to me.

Icis
I prefer Isis.

Derrick
I saw it spelled this way and Derreck, and asked him about it, and he misunderstood me and thought I asked if it was supposed to be Dir-, and he told me, "If you look up [Derrick] in the dictionary, that's how it's spelled, D-e-r." I thought that was funny, since if there was a dictionary full of 'correct' spellings of names, Derrick would probably be Derek.

Garan
"Gare-an," I'd never heard it before.

Sibset: Kathleen and Karlee
Kathleen is nice but Karlee seems like it's just meant to match her sister's name. Carly is better but I still don't care for it.

Sibset: Aidan and Gavin

Comments

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Well, he's right. Derrick IS the dictionary spelling. But why the #(%* would you WANT to be named after that particular noun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick)? Like... an oil derrick? BLECH BLECH BLECH.

[songspell.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it. My thought right as I saw that was "Derrick? Like an oil derrick...?"