Why do people insist on ruining good names?

MrsGo4Hockeychick

A friend posted pics on facebook of her visiting a friend who had a baby. 

The name? Esmae.

Esme is a beautiful, unique name as is. Why ruin it with a really bad spelling?  

pixy_stix

Hooked on Phonics worked for them.

MrsGo4Hockeychick

pixy_stix:

Hooked on Phonics worked for them.

thank you, I just sprayed coffee out my nose. LOL 

papagena

I've never seen or heard of either.  Hmmm.  I'm guessing they're both pronounced Es-may?

triumphantreturnofplanningbug

Well when you add vowels, it doesn't seem like she took it straight from the pages of Twilight.

Kind of like the difference between Jennifer and Gwyneppher.

MrsGo4Hockeychick

papagena:

I've never seen or heard of either.  Hmmm.  I'm guessing they're both pronounced Es-may?

Yes, they are. Only the Esmae spelling is made up (I did check a couple baby name websites, just to make sure there wasn't more than one correct spelling). It's french, and one of the characters in Twilight is Esme.  

luvlieK

ehh I am fine with people changing spellings, we did.

Its also how you weed out the dumb parents from the rest jk 

MrsGo4Hockeychick

triumphantreturnofplanningbug:

Well when you add vowels, it doesn't seem like she took it straight from the pages of Twilight.

Kind of like the difference between Jennifer and Gwyneppher.

This is true. But I'd make fun of Gwyneppher too, LOL.

 By the time our kids are old enough to pick on names, Twilight will probably be unknown anyways.

MrsGo4Hockeychick

I didn't realize you changed the spelling, Luvlie. Isn't it Caedan? I'd seen that prior to the bump, so it never even occurred to me as a "made up spelling" (and babynames.com at least has yours listed as an alternate spelling too!) 

andrealynn0707

luvlieK:

ehh I am fine with people changing spellings, we did.

Its also how you weed out the dumb parents from the rest jk 

I don't think your spelling falls under the "thuper spethal" category.

If you had done Kaydn or Caedyn or something it would be a whole 'nother story.

luvlieK

MrsGo4Hockeychick:

I didn't realize you changed the spelling, Luvlie. Isn't it Caedan? I'd seen that prior to the bump, so it never even occurred to me as a "made up spelling" (and babynames.com at least has yours listed as an alternate spelling too!) 

Yea it has a ton of spellings.  Its one of the names with the most lol 

 

eta: we hadn't seen it spelled like that before, but didn't really care if it was or wasn't.

Maybe C is popular and a rock star, they added it?  lol