Names that look/sound weird?

General Name Discussion
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Have you ever had a name or word that you’ve heard regularly suddenly start to look/sound completely alien? I was just reading something and came across [name_m]Matthew[/name_m].
[name_m]Matthew[/name_m].
I don’t know if I’ve just never really looked at it properly, but it seems wrong! I’ve heard it a million times, I have a cousin with the name, but it just looks so strange to me right now!
[name_m]Matthew[/name_m]. [name_m]Matthew[/name_m].
Maybe it’s the TTH? I don’t know. It’ll probably look fine in an hour, but I actually had to go and check that that’s how it is typically spelled, because it looked so wrong to me!

Has this ever happened to you with a name?

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I don’t like calling names “weird”, but Ferelith is, while beautiful, really hard to say out loud.

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I love the names [name_m]Tobiah[/name_m] and [name_m]Tobias[/name_m], but sometimes I can’t help hearing “To buy a…” or “To buy us…”

Similarly with [name_m]Isadore[/name_m], sometimes all I hear is “Is a door”.

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That happens to me constantly!! The one it used to occur to a lot was [name_m]Thomas[/name_m], but lately [name_f]Chloe[/name_f] has been another. I think for me it’s that silent H.

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I did this about 3 months ago with the name [name_m]Scott[/name_m]. I was just driving to work, thinking about my optometrist, and was like “Gosh, [name_m]Scott[/name_m]… what a weird name. Skot. Skawt. Scotttttttt.”

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[name_f]Glad[/name_f] I’m not the only one. I’ve done it with words before (pretty frequently actually), but never a name! Haha and that was totally me this morning with [name_m]Matthew[/name_m]. Maaahthhhhyou. [name_m]MATTHew[/name_m]. MatthYOU.

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Yeah, but it’s not every name I came remember!

[name_f]My[/name_f] own name or brother’s is normally the name I find weird when see them written. also… [name_f]My[/name_f] mum. Rikke… it just looks wrong.

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[name_m]Isaac[/name_m]! I always think a double "s"would make more sense than a double “a”.
[name_m]Issac[/name_m]

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Ngaere is definitely a name that is odd to look at, but it’s pronunciation ‘nigh-ree’ is lovely to say :slight_smile:

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@raevynstar, I’m okay with Ferelith, but when I kept saying, it started to sound like Feral [name_m]Heath[/name_m], which started to sound like a place (there are lots of …Heaths where I live). Also names that have lots of Ls and is next to each other always look weird to me, like [name_f]Lillith[/name_f], Ailith, [name_f]Millie[/name_f], [name_f]Tillie[/name_f] etc. There might be more to add later.

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haha, names, words, whatever. I’ll look at it and be like, “Nooo. That can’t be right! Did I spell that right? I couldn’t have!” and then I will spell it different, but that doesn’t look right, either, and I’ll go back to the original spelling. lol. I do love [name_m]Matthew[/name_m], though. He’s really handsome and classic. I’d love to meet a little [name_m]Matthew[/name_m]. :slight_smile: