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I just saw a friend tagged in a picture of a birthday cake.. Happy Birthda Ah'Vianna.
The description said "Happy 1st bday to my baby girl Ah'Viahna Ranae! Love u... and would love the cake more if they spelled ur name right!!! Oh well!"
IMO Ah'Vianna > Ah'Viahna, but hey lol

Mom is Ashley .
Siblings are all brothers: Kenneth Jr., Asher, Le'Shay (oh, I see what they did there...)

Not sure how she had two okay names with Kenneth and Asher, and fell off the deep end with Le'Shay and Ah'Viahna...

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Well, don't give your kid a stupidly spelled name and then expect them to magically know how to spell it.

Why is this a difficult concept for some parents to grasp?

Yep! Or a common name spelled crazzzyyy ... sorry, "unique"... like you wouldn't believe how many people ask me to spell my son's name- Ryan. When I say "R-y-a-n" some of them say, "oh, okay, I wasn't sure with all the different spellings of names nowadays!"

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I like Asher. Kenneth is nice but not my style. Le'Shay is strange and I think it leans toward the feminine. How do you even pronounce Ah'Viahna? What is that. I cant even...

I am 99% sure she was going for like "Ah-vee-ah-na"

I still don't think that's a name....

Aveanna...Aviana...Nope, still doesn't look right.

Good thing I read the comments because I had no idea how to pronounce that name.
Kenneth and Asher aren't half bad. Le'Shay and Ah'Viahna...yeah...no....

Ah'Viahna - inspired by the thongs??

I think this woman sustained brain injuries between her second and third pregnancy. I am guessing maybe the fathers' (if they are not the same) had something to do with the namin thus the vastly different names. I don't know... I am much too confused. On the bright side I kind of love Kenneth and Asher as a sib set. I'll ignore the other two babies and life will be much simpler.

The dreaded "I will enforce my desired pronunciation through phonetic spelling" name.

This is what causes all the Maddalyn/Breeahna/Aleesha nonsense. Heaven forfend someone pronounce Brianna as "Bree-ANN-uh" when it's supposed to be "Bree-AWN-uh"! I don't want my darling daughter to have to correct people on the pronunciation! Watch as I studiously ignore the reality that correcting spelling is no more irritating than correcting pronunciation!

All she had to do was draw a stick on the N on the cake to turn it into an H and it would have been spelled right.

I like Avianna as a name, but with the H and apostrophe, it is just too weird for my taste.

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