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Help*real name* KVIIlyn
I have just seen this name in a magazine today: KVIIIlyn (yes that is how it was spelt)
it says along with it (simplified a wee bit)"i've always loved the name Kaitlyn but hated how popular it was ... husband suggested we replace the ait with the roman numeral for eight! Now our daughter is truly unique."
Cre8ive names are going a bit too far these days, in my opinion.
*sigh*
it says along with it (simplified a wee bit)"i've always loved the name Kaitlyn but hated how popular it was ... husband suggested we replace the ait with the roman numeral for eight! Now our daughter is truly unique."
Cre8ive names are going a bit too far these days, in my opinion.
*sigh*
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Wow.
I think Caitlin (spelled like that) is a very nice name, and I can tolerate Caitlyn, Kaitlyn, Katelyn, and some other common variants. But this is too much. I saw it and wanted to pronounce it "kvih-lyn" (as I bet most would) until realising it is supposed to be Caitlin.
I agree that creative names are going too far. They've really been going too far since the 1990s and I think it's only going to get worse.
I think Caitlin (spelled like that) is a very nice name, and I can tolerate Caitlyn, Kaitlyn, Katelyn, and some other common variants. But this is too much. I saw it and wanted to pronounce it "kvih-lyn" (as I bet most would) until realising it is supposed to be Caitlin.
I agree that creative names are going too far. They've really been going too far since the 1990s and I think it's only going to get worse.
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Quelle horreur! The monstrosity that is KVIIIlyn is one that I never imagined I'd ever see or come across. Also, it's so incredibly shortsighted of the parents because probably 95-98% of the time, people will hear, rather than see, her name so it will still be waaaay overdone. The funny thing is they could have named her Caitlin and that would have been more "unique" just by using the more rare and closest approximation to the Irish original spelling.
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*Barf* The horror
At first I thought it was pronounced KWEE-lyn, like some kre8tyv spellynk of Caoilfhionn.
At first I thought it was pronounced KWEE-lyn, like some kre8tyv spellynk of Caoilfhionn.
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And the pronunciation would have to change in different languages, right? In Swedish she'd be "Kottalyn", in French "Kwitlyn", in German "Kachtlyn", and (since we're talking Roman numerals) "Koctolyn" in Latin ...
Also reminds me of this horse: https://www.horsenation.com/2014/11/18/potoooooooo-the-unbelievably-legitimate-story-of-a-racehorse/
Also reminds me of this horse: https://www.horsenation.com/2014/11/18/potoooooooo-the-unbelievably-legitimate-story-of-a-racehorse/
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Ohh, don't get me started! This wakes up the true Aspergian in me! ;)
Albanian: Ktetëlyn
Amharic: Ksiminitlyn
Arabic: Kthmanylyn
Armenian: Kut'lyn
Basque: Kzortzilyn
Bengali: Katalyn
Bulgarian: Kosemlyn
Burmese: Kshitlyn (Bwaaahahahaaaa! Sorry to all Burmese, but that's just so fun!)
Cebuano: Kwalo kalyn
Chichewa: Kzisanu ndi zitatulyn (wow, now that's a mouthful)
Danish: Kottelyn
Esperanto: Koklyn (eheh...)
Estonian: Kaheksalyn (really eight is kaheksa, but I didn't double the K)
Pilipino: Kwalolyn
Finnish: Kahdeksanlyn (really eight is kadheksan, but I didn't double the K)
French: Khuitlyn
Georgian: Krvalyn
Greek: Koktólyn
Haitian creole: Kuitlyn
Hausa: Ktakwaslyn
Hawaiian: K'ewalulyn
Hindi: Kaathlyn
Hmong: Kyimlyn
Igbo: Kasatolyn
Indonesian: Kdelapanlyn
Irish: Kochtlyn
Icelandic: Káttalyn
Italian: Kottolyn
Japanese: Khachilyn
Javanese: Kwolunglyn
Kazakh: Ksegizlyn
Khmer: Kbrabeilyn
Korean: Kyeodeolblyn
Kurdish: Khestlyn
Lao: Kaepdlyn
Latin: Koctolyn
Latvian: Kastoņilyn
Lithuanian: Kaštuonilyn
Letzeburgesh: Kaachtlyn
Malagasy: Kvalolyn
Malayalam: Kettlyn (cool, "ett" means "one" in Swedish!)
Malaysian: Klapanlyn
Maltese: Ktmienjalyn
Maori: Kwarulyn
Mongolian: Knaimanlyn
Polish: Kosiemlyn
Portuguese: Koitolyn
Russian: Kvosemlyn
Samoan: Kvalulyn
Sesotho: Ktse robelilyn
Shona: Kserelyn
Somali: Ksideedlyn
Spanish: Kocholyn
Swedish: Kåttalyn
Swahili: Knanelyn
Tamil: Kettulyn
Telugu: Kenimidilyn
Turkish: Ksekizlyn
German: Kachtlyn
Hungarian: Knyolclyn (k-nyolts-lyn)
Vietnamese: Ktámlyn
Welsh: Kwythlyn
Xhosa: Kisibhozolyn
And finally, her name in Zulu would be Keziyisishiyagalombililyn!
Albanian: Ktetëlyn
Amharic: Ksiminitlyn
Arabic: Kthmanylyn
Armenian: Kut'lyn
Basque: Kzortzilyn
Bengali: Katalyn
Bulgarian: Kosemlyn
Burmese: Kshitlyn (Bwaaahahahaaaa! Sorry to all Burmese, but that's just so fun!)
Cebuano: Kwalo kalyn
Chichewa: Kzisanu ndi zitatulyn (wow, now that's a mouthful)
Danish: Kottelyn
Esperanto: Koklyn (eheh...)
Estonian: Kaheksalyn (really eight is kaheksa, but I didn't double the K)
Pilipino: Kwalolyn
Finnish: Kahdeksanlyn (really eight is kadheksan, but I didn't double the K)
French: Khuitlyn
Georgian: Krvalyn
Greek: Koktólyn
Haitian creole: Kuitlyn
Hausa: Ktakwaslyn
Hawaiian: K'ewalulyn
Hindi: Kaathlyn
Hmong: Kyimlyn
Igbo: Kasatolyn
Indonesian: Kdelapanlyn
Irish: Kochtlyn
Icelandic: Káttalyn
Italian: Kottolyn
Japanese: Khachilyn
Javanese: Kwolunglyn
Kazakh: Ksegizlyn
Khmer: Kbrabeilyn
Korean: Kyeodeolblyn
Kurdish: Khestlyn
Lao: Kaepdlyn
Latin: Koctolyn
Latvian: Kastoņilyn
Lithuanian: Kaštuonilyn
Letzeburgesh: Kaachtlyn
Malagasy: Kvalolyn
Malayalam: Kettlyn (cool, "ett" means "one" in Swedish!)
Malaysian: Klapanlyn
Maltese: Ktmienjalyn
Maori: Kwarulyn
Mongolian: Knaimanlyn
Polish: Kosiemlyn
Portuguese: Koitolyn
Russian: Kvosemlyn
Samoan: Kvalulyn
Sesotho: Ktse robelilyn
Shona: Kserelyn
Somali: Ksideedlyn
Spanish: Kocholyn
Swedish: Kåttalyn
Swahili: Knanelyn
Tamil: Kettulyn
Telugu: Kenimidilyn
Turkish: Ksekizlyn
German: Kachtlyn
Hungarian: Knyolclyn (k-nyolts-lyn)
Vietnamese: Ktámlyn
Welsh: Kwythlyn
Xhosa: Kisibhozolyn
And finally, her name in Zulu would be Keziyisishiyagalombililyn!
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Ooh, great! Some, like Kasatolyn and Káttalyn, look quite nice actually.
I decided to spell åtta phonetically in my post, but seeing it correctly like this makes me realize how unfortunate Kåttalyn really is ...
I decided to spell åtta phonetically in my post, but seeing it correctly like this makes me realize how unfortunate Kåttalyn really is ...
This message was edited 6/3/2016, 3:51 PM
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Whoa...that's just very, very pretentious, and yet tacky at the same time.
As if there weren't enough kre8iv spellings of Caitlin...
As if there weren't enough kre8iv spellings of Caitlin...
This message was edited 6/3/2016, 5:39 AM
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AHHHH!!!
That is so very awful. Wow.
That is so very awful. Wow.
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Was it supposed to be satire? I can only see this working if it was a joke.
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*horrorstruck*
Her daughter will hate her to her dying day...
Her daughter will hate her to her dying day...
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Wait....are they still prn it like Kaitlyn? That's messed up.
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That is so fucking clever. Why didn't I think of that?
PeIInia
CaIIIne
BradIVd
IVest
Vel
VI-X
KrisX
Xley
KLXXX
PeIInia
CaIIIne
BradIVd
IVest
Vel
VI-X
KrisX
Xley
KLXXX
This message was edited 6/2/2016, 10:52 AM
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OOOOOOOOOOOH, AND NVIII (Nate)!!!!! lol this is so much fun!!!
Iita (Juanita)
LaIda (Lawanda)
AshX (Ashton)
III (Trey)
SIIart (Stuart / Stewart)
TVIII (Tate)
TVIIIum (Tatum)
VIIah (Savannah...if you pronounce it just right lol)
Iita (Juanita)
LaIda (Lawanda)
AshX (Ashton)
III (Trey)
SIIart (Stuart / Stewart)
TVIII (Tate)
TVIIIum (Tatum)
VIIah (Savannah...if you pronounce it just right lol)
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Wow, it is so clever I can't even tell what it is! Haha!
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Huge props for KLXXX.
Personally, if I were named Kviiilyn I would insist is be pronounced KVEE-lyn just to drive my parents nuts.
Personally, if I were named Kviiilyn I would insist is be pronounced KVEE-lyn just to drive my parents nuts.
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I'd like to see documentation of this before I believe that it's really true. It sounds like an urban legend.
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I still think it's a joke.
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People get paid when a magazine publishes their story/anecdote/photo. I'm sure the best way to get some money from a publishing is to make up something fantastical that some people might just believe.
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*shudder*
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Yeah, sounds like La-a or Lemon Jello.
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It was in an Australian magazine, one of my family members took a photo of it and shared it. I'll PM you a link to the image when I get home if you'd like?
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Sure.
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And I thought I had seen every way my name was spelled. Why did they have to pick on my name? WHYYYY???
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I would not for two seconds believe that that is real.
But I would snort, I find it amusing.
But I would snort, I find it amusing.
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Yeah...that's probably not going to go over well. I don't know many people who are familiar enough with roman numerals to understand how it's "supposed" to be pronounced.
In my experience names with capitol letters in them are usually automatically changed to lower case when put into a database. So at school for example, she'll end up Kviiilyn on her forms.
I find the argument that "we liked this name but it was too popular so we changed the spelling" very bizarre, the name is still popular even if it's spelled differently. I mean, 90% of people are going to be familiar with your name spoken not written down and they aren't going to know she's "special Caitlin"
In my experience names with capitol letters in them are usually automatically changed to lower case when put into a database. So at school for example, she'll end up Kviiilyn on her forms.
I find the argument that "we liked this name but it was too popular so we changed the spelling" very bizarre, the name is still popular even if it's spelled differently. I mean, 90% of people are going to be familiar with your name spoken not written down and they aren't going to know she's "special Caitlin"
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I don't get respelling either. Perhaps because my name is the victim for this insane amount of respellings and so I've experienced this first hand. When "KVIIIlyn" is yelled in a playground or store, etc, 10 kids are going to turn their heads, even if only one has that spelling. So it really doesn't solve the commonness of the name at all. The only thing it does is make NO-ONE know how to spell your name. In the case of Caitlin, which was so rare and then became so popular with multiple spellings, even those of us with the original spelling have this problem. I had a mom of a Caetlynn tell me all excitedly and proud about her daughter's name because "I had the same name". I just cringed inside. It's moms like her that have made life with my name more difficult than it needs to be.
This message was edited 6/2/2016, 9:36 AM
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That's the worst I've ever heard!!
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Kre8iv is one thing, I agree, but kreVIIIiv is quite another!
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