Texting spelling leading to new, unique baby names

Posted March 8, 2008 at 02:42 AM by Robert Nelson

Section: Communications, Email / IM, Gadgets / Other, Household, Miscellaneous

Tired of the standard old baby names, trying to think of something unique to hopefully have your newborn standout a little. Well look no further than your phonetic SMS spellings, or mis-spellings as they really are. According to the Thaindian News in addition to a corruption of the English language we are also seeing an unusually high amount of mis-spellings in baby names.

“The use of a ‘y’ instead of an ‘i’ has hit epidemic proportions, as has the use of ‘k’ over ‘c’ like in the names Jaykob and Lynkon, double letters like Siimon and Chriss and hyphens like Emma-Lee,” News.com.au quoted McCrindle, of private research agency McCrindle Research, as saying.

While we certainly cannot disagree with anyone trying to stand out a little, lets remember our kids are going to have to deal with these names and likely mispronunciations their entire life, or at least until they get old enough to take control and officially change their name.

Via [textually.org]