My husband and I were talking about the name Nevaeh and he looked it up and was relieved to see that it’s popularity is in the 900s. I looked over his shoulder and he had mispelled heaven backwards and put Neveah in the social security website. Which is for sure a misspelling. Otherwise what’s the point of the name? It’s like heaven backwards, but spelled differently for uniqueness? Ugh.
Are "mispelled" names in X on purpose or due to poor education? And if the latter why no correction?
I knew a Jerl back in Texas, and just based on the guy himself, I always figured his parents not only didn’t know how to spell Gerald but also they thought Jerl was how the name really was pronounced.
P.S. as per the OP: Jerl and his family were not black, just redneck.
My father worked with a woman whose name was ‘Female’.
She pronounced it Fe-Mah’-Lay emphasis on second syllable.
Very professional sharp woman who happened to have been born to an illiterate mother.
It’s my understanding that the CORRECT spelling is Caitlin.
I knew a girl at school whose name was misspelled by the registrar. What her parents intended to be Athene was written as Athenita – which is rather pretty in it’s own right. Should she read this message board: Hi Tina.
Well, she can still pronounce it “Athena”; just tell people the “it” is silent.
I always wondered about Jhonny as in Jhonny Peralta who is the shortstop for the Detroit Tigers. It’s so “obviously” a misspelling of Johnny. My own name is Jon and apparently I came home from nursery school in tears one day because the teacher wouldn’t believe me and insisted I’d misspelled it. I can’t imagine what any Jhonnys went through. In addition Jhonny is a slang term for a condom, masturbation, or a young male pervert. That’s quite a name to be saddled with.
… as opposed to John? :dubious:
:rolleyes:
Thanks, you’re right. It’s irrelevant, but you’re right.
One fairly often sees “John” spelled as “Jhon” in Spanish speaking countries. Since neither “hn” or “jh” normally occur in Spanish, the latter doesn’t look any more “wrong” than the former.
I’ve always wondered about Johns Hopkins’ parents. Or Mathew Brady’s.
Maybe they were expecting twins.
It’s originally a Hebrew name, and the traditional English spelling reflects a fairly direct Anglicization of the Hebrew spelling/pronunciation (Mikha’el), though the traditional English pronunciation doesn’t.
Yes, it’s mildly confusing to some people, and it gets misspelled not infrequently. I’ve learned to cope.
Signed,
Michael 
Like I said, technical reasons. There is a limit to how many characters you can have in a thread title and I hit it perfectly.
I see. For what it’s worth, you could have left the second sentence out of the title,
and had enough room to fit “African Americans” in the title. Just a quibble, nothing personal.
Don’t post schmuck bait if you don’t think it should be taken. 
I’m seeing increasing amounts of “creative spelling” among whites, too. Ugh.
Aside from wondering about that woman’s hips, knees, back, etc., I’m concerned that her kids might not still have a mother by the time they’re adults. There’ve got to be some major health issues associated with being 420 lb., unless you’re over 8 ft. tall.
Is it that obvious? I must admit I am doing quite a lot of that, and I am also at the same time (not in this thread) trying to inform Americans of quirky (everyone knows we have red buses and black taxis in london) things about over here. It should be itneresting for both sides of the pond.
I’ve seen Katelyn(n), Kaitlyn(n), Catelyn(n), Caitlyn(n). They must have really done something wrong…
Like a co-worker who wanted to use the name “Keira” but wanted a “y” in the name. Instead of the perfecly cromulent “Kyra”, they went with Keiyra. :smack:
I went to school with a (white) girl named Katilin, which was pronounced “Katie Lynn”. I was never clear on whether her parents deliberately went with a creative spelling of “Katie Lynn” or if they were confused about the pronunciation of “Caitlin”. The girl went by Kati, but I remember on the first day of class teachers usually called her Caitlin.