How Do You Spell That?

   Simple names like Shane, Michaela, Quin, Amanda, or even Zoe have become so "old school" that they have become boring. People have now decided that they need to add a little spice to their baby names.

     My parents have their own business and they personalize their items. It gets very frustrating when someone asks if we have a name and its spelled so bizarre that it doesn't look like what it sounds like. We had someone looking for a "Qwynn" the other day. We also took an order for a "Zooey" pronounced as "Zoh-E". 

     Some of the names people come up with are just insane. For example someone asked for "Duce" as in Deuce. Not Duke. Deuce. Seriously??? What the ell inspired you to pick that name? Did your husband say he needed to go drop a Deuce and you decided "Hm, deuce, that sounds pretty." Hell no. That poor kid is going to get hell all his life because his name means poop in todays terms.

     We have been asked for 4 different spellings for the name Peyton, Peyten, Payton, and Payten. We had someone ask for an "Ahlivia," "Haegan," and a "Jeck". I don't know how people come up with some of these names but we have a couple theories.

     1. We believe that people put letters in 2 hats. Vowels in one and consonants in the other and people just pick from one at a time. like Qwynn, They just picked all consonants and made it work.

     2. We also believe that people take the magnetic alphabet letters and throw them onto the fridge and make a word out of the biggest cluster of letters.

     3. We believe that people also might blind fold themselves and pick random letters from the alphabet.

     4. We also believe that people take boggle dice, shake them and make a name.

     5. We think that people also take a board, a big board, put the letters all over it and then proceed to throw darts at letters to make the name.

     I'm sure this is not the case but that's just what it seems like. I'm sick of asking EVERY customer how to spell the name they ask for. Names used to be so simple and easy with ONE WAY TO SPELL IT. One way to spell Stacie or Joe or Meagan.

     Some people get mad that they can't ever seem to find there kids name on anything. Well, when your kids name is Liowerkjnsvm, you will never be able to find it anywhere and, no, you have no right to get offended when you can't find it. And your poor child will never be able to find their name anywhere and besides that no one will be able to pronounce it. 

     Think twice before you name your kid something so abstract people. Ugh!