(no subject)

[sal_amanda]

My ex-boyfriend's sister had a baby today and named her Sofiya.  I just don't understand why people need to throw the letter y in where it doesn't belong.

Comments

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

I love Sofia, but I agree -- Sofiya is just unnecessary and kind of icky.

[doxerssoldout.livejournal.com]

are you sure it's not a non-english spelling of the name? i've seen the "iy" combination come up a lot with the foreign customers at my job.

[sal_amanda]

I strongly doubt that's the case on this one.

[bright-eyes-jh.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly certain Sofiya is a fairly common Slavic variation.

[dararachel.livejournal.com]

there's a Sophiya in my son's class. Interestingly, her brothers are named Rohan and Armaand.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

While I would normally agree on the Y thing, Sofiya is a pretty common variation in other countries.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Ugh... that's not Sofia in any way, shape or form in any language I currently speak... I do not fluently speak Russian but I do know that it's a form of Sophia/fia in Russian the thing is that it is NOT pronounced like Sophia/fia

SOFIYA

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Russian, Ukrainian

Other Scripts: София (Russian), Софія (Ukrainian)

Pronounced: sah-FEE-yah (Russian)
Russian and Ukrainian form of SOPHIA

So if they're pronouncing it correctly then awesome but if they want that to be Sah-FEE-uh they got it way wrong by adding that Y

[bright-eyes-jh.livejournal.com]

Bwuh?

The pronunciation looks the same to me.

sah-FEE-yah and sah-FEE-uh are essentially the same in English, because of the diphthong between the i and the a.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

hmmm to me there is a difference but maybe it is because I speak more languages than just English... like -lee, -li, -ly and -lie to me all have different pronunciations, there may be a very slight difference but it's there.

[bright-eyes-jh.livejournal.com]

Guess it depends on the language, but I see your point. I speak a good deal of Spanish and it shakes out the same, fwiw. But yeah, you definitely have a good point.

[inebriatedcharm.livejournal.com]

That looks like "suh-FYE-uh" to me. Which makes me laugh. Poor child ):

[frost.livejournal.com]

I don't know either. (-_-)

[celebrate.livejournal.com]

YUCK! Horrible. My grandmother was from Poland and spelled her name Sophia, so I don't buy the "cultural differences" thing.

[wiveswithknives.livejournal.com]

Poland =/= Russia

[starskye.livejournal.com]

thats a bad spelling indeed.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

It may be a legit Slavic variation, but something tells me they may have been going for "creativity" instead. Either that or this community has just taught me to expect the worst when it comes to baby naming! :)