Names spelt strange ways

[Surfin' Santa]

I have seen Sarah also spelled Sara??? And Elizabeth spelled Elisabeth...always wondered about that.

Many names have had multiple variant spellings for centuries. Derek, Derrick, Deryck. Or Susana, Suzanna, Susannah, etc. There are theoretically TWENTY-FOUR ways to spell the name Catherine (or Katherine, Katharine, Kathryn, and so on) but some of them are seldom if ever used.

 

[Surfin' Santa]

What amazes me is the fad for writing names with apostrophes and other punctuation marks.

I had a manager who had an ' in the middle of his name, like Tra'von.

In America, that's generally a black thing. I don't know exactly why, though.

 

[Mallory]

I had an Alize a few years ago. Who the hell names their child after an alcoholic beverage?

I'd never heard of it before your post and a little googling.

 

[Jetfire]

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People name their daughters Brandy...guess that is different though.

 

[M'Sharak]

I had an Alize a few years ago. Who the hell names their child after an alcoholic beverage?

"Alize" is a form of "Alice" in several European languages and the original Hebrew "Alize" (meaning "joyful") predates by many centuries the alcoholic beverage bearing that name.

Oh for the love of pete, I fucking *hate* it when couples give these fancy-pants names to their kids. It drives me up the fucking wall. These people should get down off their cross, use the wood to build a bridge, and GET OVER IT.

Hold on - who is it that's on the cross here, exactly?

 

[thestrangequark]

I had an Alize a few years ago. Who the hell names their child after an alcoholic beverage?

"Alize" is a form of "Alice" in several European languages and the original Hebrew "Alize" (meaning "joyful") predates by many centuries the alcoholic beverage bearing that name.

I met the parents -- believe me, they named her after the drink.

 

[trampledamage]

There's probably parents at my daughter's school who think we're nuts for mis-spelling Dora. Her name is Dara, it's Gaelic and quite common in Ireland, but of course we moved to Canada - not so common there!

 

[M'Sharak]

I had an Alize a few years ago. Who the hell names their child after an alcoholic beverage?

"Alize" is a form of "Alice" in several European languages and the original Hebrew "Alize" (meaning "joyful") predates by many centuries the alcoholic beverage bearing that name.

I met the parents -- believe me, they named her after the drink.

Oops, never mind. I guess things people do still can surprise me, every now and then.

 

[Marc]

I have seen Sarah also spelled Sara???

With both meaning Princess

Are they both pronunced the same way? I'm familiar with the pronuciation of Sarah both on TV and people I've known but I've never heard Sara prononced (Mia Sara is the only one I can think of with the name and according to wiki Sara is short of a much longer Italian name).

 

[Surfin' Santa]

Who the hell names their child after an alcoholic beverage?

Maybe it was responsible for the child's conception?

 

[Jetfire]

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I would think they are pronounced the same. Just don't know if someone liked the name Sara or was just too lazy and dropped the h.

 

[trampledamage]

Any time I've heard Sara it has been pronounced differently - umm... how to explain the difference... with Sarah the "ar" is pronounced like "air" but in Sara it's pronounced like "arr".

Does that make sense?

 

[Jetfire]

Any time I've heard Sara it has been pronounced differently - umm... how to explain the difference... with Sarah the "ar" is pronounced like "air" but in Sara it's pronounced like "arr".

Does that make sense?

Yep. Thanks.

I have also seen Sera??? Not sure if it just made up or real???

 

[Ashu]

I know someone who spells her name (melissa) with an H on the end. When I first saw her name I thought it was a typo.

 

[D Man]

My name is Derek, so when I see it as "Derrick" it just looks weird to me. Makes me think of oil. My best friend's name is Eric, but so far I've never seen a "Derek" named "Deric." I've seen "Erek" before though. I get a kick out of seeing my sister's name (Megan) spelled with all sorts of extraneous letters, like Meghan or Meagan or even Meaghan. But all that is just ways of spelling names I'm not personally used to seeing. Strange, but I certainly don't get all worked up about it.

I also have a friend named Sara and a friend named Sarah, both pronounced the same way, so I've never thought of the non-H version as uncommon.

 

[Marc]

Any time I've heard Sara it has been pronounced differently - umm... how to explain the difference... with Sarah the "ar" is pronounced like "air" but in Sara it's pronounced like "arr".

Does that make sense?

Ah the fun of phonics

I pronoucen Sarah as Sair-rah and would pronounce Sara with a short Sa along the lines so Sa-Ra (Ra - like the the Ancient Egyptian deity)

 

[RoJoHen]

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I would think they are pronounced the same. Just don't know if someone liked the name Sara or was just too lazy and dropped the h.

I've seen "Sara" at least as often as I've seen "Sarah." This is hardly a bizarre situation.

It's one thing to have a common variation of a name. It's another to spell it with completely unnecessary or confusing letters.

Sehraah


My first name is Roger, and it always bugs me when people try to spell it "Rodger," even though that spelling actually makes more sense (lodge, dodge, etc). The way my name is actually spelled, it should be pronounced like the "Kroger" grocery store.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I have just read about a girl being given the name Cazna and I was wondering if anyone (especially Aussies) can work out where this name comes from.

 

[Roger Wilco]

My name is Derek, so when I see it as "Derrick" it just looks weird to me. Makes me think of oil. My best friend's name is Eric, but so far I've never seen a "Derek" named "Deric." .

It makes me think of the famous German bug-eyed tv-detective Derrick.

 

[Deckerd]

I strongly suspect the number of stupid spellings of names is directly attributable to the literacy of the parents.