[Tax-chick]

I suppose you can rationalize this with whatever you like,

I put it under, "People do some weird stuff."

but inflicting a name on your child which EVERYONE will misspell is to do them a disservice.

I agree. My children all have stolid names with standard spellings (except for a nickname, Elen with one L). I use my maiden name, officially, because of the nuisance of spelling my husband's name for everyone. Of course, I have to do that anyway, with ten children, but eventually they'll all grow up and do it for themselvs. Even my 3-year-old corrects mispronunciations of their name without missing a beat ;-).

[drbuzzard]

>I put it under, “People do some weird stuff.”

Actually I put it under:
A) Crappy schools which push out barely literate graduates (the amount of remedial education required around here is atrocious)
B) Teen moms who don’t have the wisdom to think of consequences (of course the first one which comes to mind is being a teen single mom in the first place, compared to which the minor issue of giving your kid a messed up name is fairly trivial).