[jiggyboy]

In the same vein, if you know you can't speak correctly, have somebody else pronounce the baby's name correctly to the nurse, or learn to write and spell correctly, or both. Otherwise he has to explain "Anfernee" or "Andrue" or "Antawn" or "Stephon" for the rest of his life as well.

[LS]

It can go the other way, though, too: about 10 years ago--I clipped this out of the paper and read it to my students---a woman was actually charged in Denmark with naming her kids a name that was not on the officially approved state list of names. She named her son "Christopher," but spelled it "Christophpher." Like she had a lisp or something.

[Betty Jane]

Here's a sad little story. One of the kids I know has a speech problem. Great kid except for that. He had a little brother in October. The new kid's name is Asher. Bad name, but not the problem. When big bro says the name it comes out as Ashhole. He doesn't say his brother's name anymore.

[nina0113]

In the same vein, if you know you can't speak correctly, have somebody else pronounce the baby's name correctly to the nurse, or learn to write and spell correctly, or both. Otherwise he has to explain "Anfernee" or "Andrue" or "Antawn" or "Stephon" for the rest of his life as well.

Years ago, an acquaintance of mine used to get utterly irate (and is probably still doing so) when people pronounced her son's name as "DAY-men." She insisted that the correct pronunciation was "DAY-mee-en". After all, she'd spelled it that way - Dee Ay Em Ee En.