Heaven spelled backwards is Na-vai-ya, right?

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

I saw this on the comments of a blog I was reading:

my great niece 1st name is Na-vai-ya, dashes & all.  do you have any idea what a nightmare that’s been?  her birth certificate is spelled correctly but her social security card,hospital records & state medi-cal card doesn’t have the dashes cause the system wont accept more than 1 dash. this has caused more than 1 delay & a whole host of problems.

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[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

sigh. serves them right.

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

and then spell it all special. its heaven backwards, but not spelled that way. lol

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

In my opinion, dashes are not official letters. My last name has an accent on the last letter, for example, and I usually include it in my signature. I never, ever, include it in official documents. That's what this girl should do - spell her name Navaiya on official docs. It's like differentiating a lower case c in McNamara when you have to type in all caps. You can't!

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

what I want to know is how people miss that the end of the name is the sound of mediocrity: "eh"

Who would want that in their name???

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

Yes! That's been confusing me for so long as well! Vah-eh. Not Vay-uh.

[heure-actuelle.livejournal.com]

poor girl

[kjerlandsen.livejournal.com]

Oh the poor child. But LOL at the stupidity of the spelling!

[fellclutch.livejournal.com]

So, are we to pause at every dash or something?

[sayfray.livejournal.com]

Lol I just realized that's what I was doing! Na *pause* vai *pause* ya. Such a silly way to spell a name with hyphens like that.

[coendou.livejournal.com]

The fuck is wrong with people.

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

lol!

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

iawtc

[duck-deluxe.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered how that atrocity is pronounced. I have a friend who calls her daughter Na-vay and it's actually "heaven" backwards. Guess it depends on who you ask. Either way, wtf?

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

This.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that "ae" is prn. /ay/ like in sundae or Rae or Maeve, but then the H is just hanging on the end. So, no go. Then, according to the 6 syllable types (I'm an elementary teacher), "va" falls under the open syllable category, which means it's a long /a/. But still, "eh" shouldn't be pronounced /uh/.

I just spent way too much time analyzing a silly name.

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

This.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

That's really smart not to include the é on official documents. I know a girl whose middle name is Renée and it gets all kinds of messed up on official documents. Rene'e, Renee, and Rene E. are some of the ones I know of.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

... how is it any different then all the millions of other names ending in an 'uh' sound?

[vanish.livejournal.com]

Maybe she decided on "Nevaeh", but people kept asking her how to pronounce it, so she thought it'd be best to sound it out. Permanently.