Enough with the cutsie pooh names!

Found this on a sign in the college
What a completely lame way to spell Chelsey. At least I'm assuming this was an intentional spelling, and that the student didn't misspell her own name.

Am I alone in thinking that this parental obsession of re-spelling perfectly good names is a mild form of child abuse? There must be about 50 ways to spell "Crystal" out there..,. is is really that much fun having to constantly walk people through writing down and pronouncing your first name? I have enough problems getting people to get my last name right, at least having "Sue" as a nomiker gives me a bit of a break. I saw a "Calvine" for Calvin, which incidentally means 'bald' in Latin so why anybody goes there in the first place is beyond me. Camryn/Kamryn, which means bent nose, CADEN / KADEN was like the 2nd highest ranking boy name in 2005. Kaden?!? What the hell is that about.

And the Katelyn, Caitlin, Katlyn, Katalin, Katelyn, Katelynn, Katelins.... give me a break. You will NOT automatically create a creative, free-thinking, interesting, and unique human being by saddling them with a ridiculous and childishly spelt name.

And if you're going to start making names up, at least let's follow basic phonetics. 'Beyonce' needs an accent over the e to be Be-yawn-say. As it stands, it should be pronouced 'be-yawnc'

Cadence/Kadence/Kadense is popular too. BITE ME. The online definition has Cadence meaning rhythm, which is a somewhat sketchy definition. But even if it was accurate... 'rhythm'...what the hell are you going for there. I mean, nobody ever REALLY wants to raise a drummer...do they?

When I was working at the provincal gov't exam registry, we saw the most horrifying names. "Colt 44" and "Princess Di"... I wonder what that girl calls her self now, post-car accident? "Franken Stein" (I'm not kidding, how miserable are that person's Octobers). My sister said they processed a test for a "Maxi Padd" one year...can you IMAGINE that girls' school life? I shudder to think.


Someday, there's going to be a child that turns around and sues the pants off their parents for pain and mental anguish. It'll be the Britanny/Britanee/Britaknee/Bretahnee/Bwetawkni class-action suit. And I hope they take their parental units to the kleeners.