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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp
Help me Lord, I cannot STAND the cutesy spellings! I am speechless when I see educated people pulling out "Alicyn" and "Brittni" and the like. What are they thinking? Do you really think your child won't come up with a better way of distinguishing herself? I even know a "Liisa" with two i's...in other words, absolutely everything associated with her appears to have been badly edited. No thanks.
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I'm with you. Both my husband and his sister have common names, which my in-laws decided to spell weird. His has 2 of the letters reversed from the norm. Even his middle name is common, with a weird spelling. It's a real pain to always have to stress the spelling during customer service/business transactions.
We had a near-crisis when his passport arrived with his name spelled the usual way...it had to be redone, weeks passed, and it finally arrived 2 days before a trip to Australia. We had to call our Congressman's local office to intervene with the passport office to get it expedited. My mother-in-law actually felt guilty about that.