You pronounce Mattilyn with a t? Or like [name]Madelyn[/name]???
I am not really that accustomed to American pronunciation though, so to me as a English person [name]Mattison[/name] pronounced [name]Madison[/name] seems odd.
Until yesterday, I didn’t know there was any accent that made D and T the same! And I thought I favored American spelling and pronunciation…
This explains some common misspellings I’ve seen, like “Congradulations!”
This goes to show that “phonetic” spellings only make sense in a given accent.
Where are you from triplicate?
[name]Canada[/name]; born in BC, raised in [name]Alberta[/name].
My mother grew up in Manitoba, and she says most people there confused D and T. She saw that as a hick-town accent, and resolved to speak better than that. She noted that, since moving west, she hasn’t encountered that accent much. The interesting thing is, she thought Canadians sounded more British then. She knew a number of people with non-rhotic accents.
Sorry I’m just seeing the responses!
sprout : I am actually currently studying to be an SLP. I love it so much; you learn so many interesting facts about language that you wouldn’t otherwise think about!
triplicate : English really just makes very little sense when it comes to spelling. It’s insane. For your examply, ‘congratulations,’ I can see how people would choose ‘d’ over ‘t’ because the sound the ‘t’ makes it actually close to a ‘j’ sound! The sound a ‘j’ makes is actually a combination of two sounds, one being a ‘d’!
As someone with one of the accepted variations on a name ([name]Christy[/name]; as opposed to [name]Kristy[/name] or [name]Christie[/name]), I am constantly annoyed at having to spell my name. Irish/English people seem to get it first time, others require me to spell it ALL.THE.TIME.
Now I don’t think it is any worse than [name]Katherine[/name] or [name]Catherine[/name], [name]Sarah[/name] or [name]Sara[/name], [name]Anne[/name] or [name]Ann[/name]. But why make INFINITE variations on names? All the [name]Taylor[/name], [name]Tayla[/name], Taylahs and the [name]Aiden[/name] multiplicates require much spelling out loud.
As someone who has lived it, spell your kids’ names an acceptable and recognisable way.
Excuse me BUT my daughters name is siouxsie and most of you don’t know the origin the most common siouxsie is from siouxsie and the banshees but just cuz she’s a “rockstar” isn’t the reason that I named my daughter siouxsie I am a punk rocker but that’s not the reason and if u were indian u people would know that’s its native american that’s were it comes from. Its not different like these other names kayden and elisebethe and shit like that so before u go smash talkin on baby names do ur homework stupid asses
I don’t think calling us “stupid asses” is really necessary.
The [name]Sioux[/name] are a Native American tribe, but is [name]Siouxsie[/name] really a traditional native american name? [name]Siouxsie[/name] [name]Sioux[/name] was born [name]Susan[/name].
i named my son connor and everyone misspells it. it drives me crazy! they spell it conner all the time! i spell it the more common and stardard way so i don’t understand why people would assume it was spelled with an er instead of an or???
I don’t mind unique spellings… to some extent. some people take it too far.
I think changing [name]Jordan[/name] to [name]Jordyn[/name] for a girl and things like that are definitely okay for some names.
some people [name]DO[/name] take it to far though when they completelyy change the name.