Upcoming parents listen up. This kitschy effort to be more creative by taking a perfectly okay name and contorting it with extra letters and strange substitutes? It condemns your poor child to a lifetime of respelling his name, explaining its origins, and assuring people that no, my parents were not illiterate.
Extra annoying: these bizarre spellings change the pronunciation. Kahtherryn is, in the end, still Catherine. Why change the spelling in the first place?
few things frustrate me over the foolishness (with full biblical implication of moral failings) of our generation as people who 1) don't vaccinate their children (!!!) or 2) name them stupid names. i've heard stories from friends about acquaintances they know who have named their kids things like moet ("after the champagne that conceived him," and mispronounced "mow-it"), d'artagnan (by the self-proclaimed literary nerds, who mispronounce it as "dar-tanyen") and the so-commonly-shared-it-must-be-urban-legend, la-a, pronounced "la dasha".
ReplyDeletei'm all for unique names, but by that i mean things like georgia and edmund, not names that cause kids to get tormented or people to doubt my judgement.
what incited this? =)
Wouldn't that be similar to shepherd/sheppard?
ReplyDeleteWarning: Biased reply ahead
ReplyDeleteSheppard has enough accepted and common ways to be spelled that there is no definitive style for the name. It is more often than not changed from its original derivation "shepherd" that there isn't an accepted singular spelling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd_(surname)
However it IS more traditionally a surname than given. Talking to me probably makes people feel like they're in the military or P.E.