How not to spell

[raze--the-rose.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine is named Myryja, pronounced Mariah. I've known her for four years, and to this day I still have to look at my phone to remember how to spell it.

Which makes me wonder, do you have any friends whose names are difficult to spell?

Comments

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

WTH is that spelling all about?!?! That is not creative that just says ," I may have been drunk when I spelt it."

[raze--the-rose.livejournal.com]

That is her actual legal name given by her parents.

[incogneato86.livejournal.com]

I would pronounce it exactly like that and when she'd say, "it's Mariah" I would tell her no it isn't. Hah.

[eveyalecia.livejournal.com]

Wow never in a million years would I have guessed that her name was Mariah. Yikes.

This isn't anywhere near as bad as that, but my best friend throughout school was Kateisha (Kah-teesha). It took me forever to learn how to spell it, mostly whether the i or e came first (and to be fair this was back in first grade when I had trouble spelling recess). To this day I remember it by spelling it "Kate" followed by "isha." I also have a friend named Kaidance (Cadence), although she went by KK which made it a lot easier!

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

Jennica. I always have to check whether to spell her name with one N or two.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

She has to have made that up herself. Tell me her parents weren't moronic enough to come up with that spelling...

[raze--the-rose.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is her actual legal name given by her parents.

[bookity.livejournal.com]

Not a name I have trouble spelling anymore, but when people hear it they don't know how to spell it. My friends name is So'Cyarria, pronouced So-see-air-uh, but she just goes by So'Cy and writes SoCy most of the time. But people always spell it Sosie when they hear it.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

a friend's daughter: Kailleah (Kaylie)

in her defense, said "child" is now 18 and therefore this was at least before the Kaylie craze hit.

[sparklymoon.livejournal.com]

I'm a little sad to report that all my friends have easy to spell names: Heidi, Rosanne (although some people spell it Roseanne), Carolyn, Robert, Erin (many, many Erins), Marie, 2 Kims (a Kimberly and a Kimberley), Gina, Ashley, Christina, Katrina, etc...

I do, however, know 2 Megans, 2 Meaghans, a Megahn, a Meagann, and a Maygen (she was named after her grandmother May, who was very GENerous, apparently).

However, my very first friend in primary school was Ellyn, and to this day (25 years later) "Ellen" looks weird to me.

Actually, I do know of my coworkers who have problems - Chanthanaphone (he's Laotian, and goes by Jeff) and Sharard, whom people constantly call Gerard. And my parents and grandmother have a hard time remembering how to spell my neices names: Kiyah and Kierah.

[melly-issa.livejournal.com]

I have a student named Brittyne which throws me off every time

[sictransitsuzy.livejournal.com]

It makes sense to me but it's still awful.