Running Stupid Spelling of Names Thread

Jhonny. . . as in Jhonny Peralta.

 

I actually did a double-take and had a WTF moment when I saw the name for a basketball player from Oregon:

Maarty. WTF were his parents THINKING?

There's also a kid who plays baseball around here called Jim Morrison. I wondered what his parents were thinking too. The kid is like, seven. Do they want him to become a drug addict?

 

Maybe Maarty's parents had just finished watching Sneakers and been struck with Ben Kingsley's pronunciation style. [Obscure movie reference]

The K and C names always create havoc. Someone once tried to tell me Cameron was a boy's name and Kameron a girl's. WTF?

 

I know two kids named Briley.

One's a boy. The other's a girl.

 

I had always help out some hope that a parent with the last name Hendrix would name their kid Jimi.

 

you know damn good and well they'd name the kid JiMmI.

 

Probably, or some other asinine spelling, Jeimmye?

 

Someone tried to explain to me that Candace is a white spelling and Candice is a black spelling. Again, WTF?

 

Meet Jennaphr "Walk of Shame" Frederick.

This is some hilarious reading, too.

http://baldfatangry.blogspot.com/2008/01/waking-up-with-jennaphr.html

 

Shawn
Shaun
Shawon
Chone

 

Dwyane (Wade)

I honestly think whoever named him didn't know they were misspelling it.

I went to junior high with a kid named "Tee J"

The hyphens are what drive me crazy, though. Wasn't there a receiver in the NFL a few years ago named 'Omar Ellison, with the hyphen before his name? WTF?

And yes, the 100 different variations on Britney, Christi and Ashley are insane.

But the worst one I ever encountered was a local high school kid a few years ago, who was a hell of an athlete, got his name in the paper about three times a week and was all state in basketball.

His name? Tanrrance (pronounced Terrance, the 'n' is evidently silent)

 

Bubbler and I have a second cousin named Nathanyl.