Incorrect Name Spelling

[tonya]

My daughter's name is MACY...people spell it Maci, macey, macie...oh well...I am Tonya..ALL my life people spelled it Tanya, Tonia, Tonja...There are so many different ways to spell names...

 

[Andry]

Manna....thanks for the reminder. You sound like my little sister!

Going back to the OP, the spelling is important not just because we chose our kids names (for the most part) and they are our kids after all, but also because God thinks it's important too: Abram to Abraham, Sarai to Sarah, Saul to Paul. So it would seem God is a stickler for correct spelling too (however way the original text changed them), although his reasons may be different from ours.

 

[Lena75]

I agree, spelling is very important. Now to some who think correct name spelling is "petty". Let's say there's a child who's is learning to print his name. He makes a mistake, would you not correct him? Or would you say, oh, it's only your name, it's no big deal? I don't want my daughter to see her misspelled name every time she opened her Bible. So yes, I don't think it's rude to return a gift that has an obvious mistake, such as a name. All in favour, say aye.

 

[meg324]

here's an idea... instead of returning it, you could ask them where they got the name printed & could you get their contact info so that you can correct it? They may be equally upset about it as you... and you will be telling them that you appreciate the gift AND pointing out that "oops, it' spelled wrong. I can fix it - can you tell me how/where?"

 

[psychoceramic]

my wife and i are about to have a baby in dec (she is doing most of the work at least tha hardest parts... = : > ) if we have a girl (the doc and ultra sound tech and my wife who is a nurse and seen many an ultra sound believe it to be a girl baby)we have decided on the name Kayleigh Samantha Grace.

we have already heard from both grandmothers...... and the grand father......about our choice for names....

Her mom say that the way we spell kayleigh (and it is still up for debate on how we spell kayleigh... cause there is also Kae-lee, K-lee, Kay-lee, and many other ways) but kayleigh is our fav right now.... that our daughter will not be able to spell her name untill she in in the first or secodn grade.....

my mom pipes up that with all three names plus the last name ... she wont be able to spell her name untill she in high school.

my dad just says... Thats a funny name for a boy.


so every once in a while we look at each other and wonder if they are right... well the grandmothers to be.. we know the grand dad is right.... and we think of another way to spell the name... but then we think no.... there are so many name out there that seems hard to spell...and so we stick to Kayleigh.....



ok i just wanted to add this to the thread.....are we being unreasonable? are we setting up our daughter for anything?


if the baby turns out to be a boy... the only name he will have is Samuel.....we cant pick another name that we both like... i want jedidiah



well any thoughts would be great.....

 

[Andry]

well any thoughts would be great.....

There's a potential slight problem to what you're doing. When all is said and done, having gone through all the discussions with your wife, family, friends and the 'big book of names' including all possible spelling and meanings of names.... and the little one is finally born on that wonderful day, she/he might not look like a Kayleigh or Samuel .

When our son was born, the name that we had picked for him beyond any doubt, didn't fit him . So for eight days he was in the incubator (he was a premee(sp?), he was 'nameless' (the nurses called him 'baby Yue' - my wife's last name) while we racked our brains all over again.

But in the end, it was rewarding and fun. Congrats btw!

 

[lucypevensie]

I would not return the Bible either. It is careless of them to keep forgetting the correct spelling but I doubt they mean to hurt anyone's feelings.

I've been in the same position as the teacher as well. Imagine my embarrassment when I presented my own goddaughter with a personalized Christmas ornament with the incorrect spelling of "Rebekah". Shoot! I felt really stupid when I saw the correct spelling on a piece of paper. As I apologized to our friends I was so thankful that our friends had a gracious attitude. They insisted on keeping the ornament though I offered to exchange it, and they put it on the tree every year. We can laugh about it.

People get a's and e's and i's mixed up all the time (independent is often misspelled independant, shepherd is shephard, etc), so I can see how Candace can be misspelled.

That's my .02.

 

[OracleX]

My daughters name is Raeleen and she seems to have it spelled wrong by many people. Never really thought about it much tho ... most the time a simple correction is all that is needed.

 

[Mayzoo]

How do you pronounce Candace's name? : it looks like it is pronounced "Can-day-ss." Names are fascinating to me. Origin, spellings, ethnicity and nationality. I would take a class in all that stuff if I had more time!!

 

[redheadmt]

hey, my mom had her name foil engraved on a Bible that she got when she was married to my dad. She got divorced, so she had an engraver (or whoever does that stuff) take the original foil out and replace it with her maiden name. That may fix her name on the Bible. I'm sure it's lovely with the exception of the name being spelled incorrectly.
My name is Megan. I go by Megan. Nobody calls me Meg (my screen name, my original was too close to someone else's!!)... BUT... people have called me Meg a LOt (Which I used to hate meg ryan b/c she was popular at the time and I blamed her, LOL!) and then they spell it incorrectly. MegHan, Meagan, meaghan... That's not me!
I recently had to give a deposition and I received an affadavit that I had to sign... my name was spelled wrong. I called and told them it was spelled incorrectly and they would not receive it back until I got the affadavit with the correct spelling. They could email it or mail it to me.
My little brother is James and we called him Jamie growing up. his kindergarten teacher decided that since there was a girl whose given name was jamie, He needed to be called James. My 5 year old brother cried every single day for the first two MONTHS of school.
Because of this, I made sure to name my kids simple names - so I thought!!
My daughter's name is Elise. Pronounce "uh-lease" - not EEEE-LEEESss LOL... it's not spelled Elyse, or eliese or any other variation. She is named after my grandmother whose middle name is Alice, but pronounced liek Elise... I wanted to do that but I didn't want her to be called alice as in "wonderland"

Sometimes you jsut can't win.
I think that because this is a place where she is regularly, you need to speak with the teacher. It's tough to have to bring it up b/c I'm sure it's an uncomfortable situation to be in "nice Bible, her name's wrong"...


Hehe, and I don't know where these people are from... Maybe some alternate universe where everyon'e name is spelled an alternate way, lol... I was thinking maybe you named her some variation of the original name.... but I always spell Candace that way!! LOL!! I was like "oh really? wow... that IS weird that they misspelled it"... but then again, they may have an aunt candise or something!

Wow. Is that really TRUE?

 

[Michaela]

try living with michaela