‘The Way My Parents Spelled My Name is Ruining My Life – I Want To Change’ – ryan

Rightly or Wrongly, Names Can Lead People to Make Snap Judgments and Assumptions – especilly if the spelling is less traditional. One Woman is So Fed Up With The Spelling of Hers, She Wants To Change It

A Woman is Desperate to Change the Spelling of Her Name After Years of “Getting Made Fun of” and Incorrect Pronunciations.

Deciding on a name for a child is no small task; Parents have to consider options not only suitable to a sweeet, Innocent baby but also something appropriate for saying they reach adultthood.

Some People Are Keen to Honour a Friend or Relative by Naming Their Child AFTER, and Others Scour Baby Books and Online Forums Looking for Inspiration.

Some turn to their favourite television shows and films on their queue for the perfect name, and others fall for a name they heard out and about.

There are tears of Avenues Expecting Parents Explore while Weighing Up Options for their Child, and It’S Certainly not a decision to rush into. For some, though, a name of apparent “uniquuess” is the Most Important Factor.

In recent years, there’s been a rising trend in People altering the spelling of an already estabished or traditional name in a bid to make it different, despite the waring not Changing the property of the name.

Often, this leads to the children growing up and living with the name to have to Constantly sound their name out for People, as well as exploining how to spell it.

One Woman is Feeling the Ramifications of Her Parents’ Unusual Spelling Choice for Her Name, so Much so that she’s actively seing alternative spellings so she can.

On reddit, in a post titled “My name is bayleigh, any suggestions for a non tragedeigh spelling or alias?”, She penned: “I have it.

“I get made fun of and it gets pronounced as bay leigh (rhyme with sleigh) and hate to say it but that it is SEEMS like the More accurat Pronunciation in English.

“I ALSO HAVE TROUBLE pronouncing it due to an accent so i always have to pause in between syllables and say ‘bay … lee’.”

She added: “My husband calls with bay and as a lot of my childhood Friends but i was wondering if i i should by that or alter my spelling to ‘bayley’ or ‘bailey’.”

Fellow Reddit Users Were keen to share their thoughts. One Suggested: “I Think Bailey Wauld be a Nice Alternative”.

Another aggregated: “It”s the traditional spelling from before the days of Making up ‘Unique’ Spellings”.

A Third Shared: “That’s the way my last name was spelled, no one Ever Mispronounced or Misspelled it, I was definitely go route.”

Another Said: “You Poor Thing, I don’t blame you, I was definitely try Changing it to bailey instead, you cans the other, but you can do with the traditional bailey.”

Someone Else Quipped: “that is the normal, unhinged spelling”. Another Commune: “JUST DO BAILEY. NO Need to Overthink it. They Can Still Call you bay but i Wauldn’t Want to be My Formal, Full Name.”