I answer phones all day at a plumbing office and most of the names I hear are pretty standard but every once in a while I get a great one OR a really terrible one.
Today I was taking a job and the lady said her name was [name]Chantelle[/name] but then proceded to spell it for me as Schoentelle and I’m sure I had THIS face O.o
I really had to bite my tongue not to ask what her parents were thinking. I’m sure that’s mean but I’m just NOT a fan of kr8ive spellings. It looks illiterate to me.
CREATIVE SPELLINGS. I hate them. It doesn’t change the name. [name]Madelyn[/name] is still [name]Madeline[/name]/[name]Madeleine[/name], for example. It just makes the name look misspelled and they don’t age well. If you hired a lawyer, would you rather hire a [name]Riley[/name] or a [name]Ryleigh[/name]? [name]Just[/name] sayin…
My first thought was “Show-and-Tell”. That’s how I would have instinctively pronounced the name.
Creative spellings do not bother me as much as they do other people. I would never use one, I think they’re more trouble than they’re worth, and I do not think a creative spelling makes a unique name, but it doesn’t upset me to see it.
I do tend to dislike invented names, but I do not think they’re necessarily terrible. I just prefer to see names with meaning and history over modern inventions and smooshes.