someone’s signature: Vote on my namelist here!
Looks at a joke website about yewneek spellings for a bit of late night amusement to find my name has been put on it.
http://www.namenerds.com/uucn/advice/spelling.html
- Take out an “I” and add a “Y”
This is a common way of altering spellings. But be careful, “y” often looks like it should make a long “i” sound (like in Kyle, Tyler and Skye). People will probably know that Bryttani is pronounced like Brittany, and not like Brighten-ee, but sometimes it can be confusing.
Allyson
Maryssa
Myriah
Alyxandra
Eryn
Watched a naming video the other day where someone called the name [name_m]Malachi[/name_m] “too unique” http://funnyand.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Rolling-my-eyes-so-hard.jpg
When someone says James on a girl is horrible and unusuable and that the child will be bullied and it’s basically the worst name to give your daughter… And they have like, Aristotle, Hrafnhildur, Nosferatu and Heliotrope in their signature.
(Maybe I’m biased because I love James on any gender, James always sounded unisex to me, and I love seeing people break gender barriers - whether it’s masculine names on girls or feminine names on boys. It really annoys me when people say James doesn’t “work” on a girl.)
OP: We’ve chosen the name Genora for our baby girl, it’s an anagram of ‘orange’, which is my favorite fruit. However when I looked, I discovered it’s a real name, it means ‘beautiful angel child with golden hair’ in Slavic.
Poster 1: Slavic isn’t a language, it’s a group of languages (i.e. Russian, Polish, Czech etc), so it can’t mean anything ‘in Slavic’ as no such thing exists.
OP: Well that’s what it says on www.sparklybabynamesforyourprinceorprincess.com, and I believe that site.
Poster 1: That site is known for making up meanings for names, which have no known origin, but you believe it if you want to.
Poster 2: Genora? As in the oral contraceptive?
OP: <Implodes>
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Totally creeping through this thread and this is totally me 
Person on other naming site: “I’m from [name_f]France[/name_f] so all of these names are really normal where I live! Which of these names do you like best? Maëlys is pronounced ‘may-liss’. Thank you!”
Me: “Actually, Maëlys is pronounced like may-eh-LEES but thanks for playing!”
Or
“We’re Welsh, so these names are really common. [name_m]Emrys[/name_m] is said em-reese.”
No it’s not, but you’re cute!
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Me when people say they want to name their daughters [name_m]Edward[/name_m], [name_u]James[/name_u], [name_m]Robert[/name_m], etc. because it’s after a male family member: http://68.media.tumblr.com/440a7cee5d8e588f3d40da93c11d10a5/tumblr_inline_npi2yhlkgG1rjrl4k_500.gif
<High five>
I was on Yahoo answers a while back, when I saw a post similar to this, only about the name Gwenllian.
The person (a fellow American) had asked for opinions on Gwenllian, saying the pronunciation was ‘gwen-lee-un’, and claiming she was of Welsh origin through both her maternal grandparents.
After a few people had replied swooning over the name, I replied informing the OP that the LL letter in Welsh doesn’t make a L sound, and there is no equivalent pronunciation of it in English (although there are a couple of ways you can replicate some semblance of it). Told her my grandfather is Welsh etc. Helpfully included link to audio of how it’s pronounced.
She bites back, telling me I’m wrong, and that she’s fluent in Welsh as her grandparents had taught her. I mean come on, if you’re fluent in Welsh, you know LL isn’t pronounced like that.
Anyhow, with the help of my grandfather, I replied to her with a post written fully in Welsh. It translated as ‘if you really could speak Welsh, then you will be able to read this easily, and also you’d know how the LL is pronounced.’
It goes without saying, she couldn’t read it.
NB: I was blocked from accessing Yahoo! Answers not long after this, apparently someone had complained about me, saying I’d upset them. I wasn’t told exactly what the incident was, which angered me, as I should have had the right to defend myself. I do wonder if Miss Pretend I Can Speak Welsh who complained. If it was, well at least I was banned for good!
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LOL! I can maybe forgive those kind of names for girls in the middle, but all those names do have feminine variants.
Oh I just [name_u]LOVE[/name_u] (insert nationality) names, let me just proceed to state names that literally no one in that country uses!
Heh, heh. Guilty! Also I love your avatar!
I’ve loved [name_f]Rosamund[/name_f] all my life but now it’s in the top 1000?? Forget it, I’ll name her Aglaonice-Frideswide-Cunégonde instead. Trendy namers will never discover this rare gem! evil cackles
(this is a self-roast)
lowkey snooty voice Well, I really like the [name_m]French[/name_m] versions/spellings of these names, but I guess if I stay in [name_u]America[/name_u] I’ll use the English ones. I just prefer Vérité over [name_f]Verity[/name_f] (WITH the accents, don’t forget them!) and [name_f]Perle[/name_f] over [name_f]Pearl[/name_f] and Théophile over [name_m]Theophilus[/name_m].
This was completely worth the read from start to finish, I couldn’t stop laughing!
When I see people arguing about name facts (i.e. Origin, gender, spelling) and they’re getting really into it, but I know that they’re both wrong:
Help! I need a nickname for [insert name here], but I don’t like ANY of the obvious nicknames. [Insert name here] may not even have any obvious nicknames, but I MUST have nickname options for [insert name here], no matter how nonsensical they are. I am COMPLETELY INCAPABLE of adding a name to my list without at least three nickname options.
Title: Masculine, rustic names? Need help!
We need a masculine name for our baby boy, STAT! We don’t have many requirements but the name MUST:
- be as swift as a coursing river
- with all the force of a great typhoon
- all the strength of a raging fire
- mysterious as the dark side of the moon
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@amberdaydream, I’m DYING! That is so funny (and so true) omg
I’m looking for a girls’ name, long but not frilly, and it can’t contain the vowels A, E, or I.
Hi! We’re expecting a little girl in three months and we are COMPLETELY stuck for names! So far, my significant other and I agree on:
Magnolia
Wren
Jocelyn
Arianna
Pia
Frances
We finally managed to agree on Magnolia Jocelyn but we ran it by my grandma and she hates it!
We need help finding a name approved by her, my father, my mother-in-law, my father-in-law, my brother, my sisters, mY aunt, my grandad, SO’s brother, my cousins, SO’s cousins, the guy who runs the corner shop down the road, my second cousins and my great great aunt Ethel’s ghost, so name must be easy to spell on a ouija board! Help!