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Originally Posted by kwillia  Whenever I read your grandson's name I read it "Ch-E" not "Shea". Pronounced like those "Ch-e A Pet" plants. I'm all for unique names but feel sorry for the ones with unique spellings cause they have to go through their entire life getting their name mis-spelled and/or mis-pronounced...  |
I have to agree with you there. I thought the same thing.
DQ's name -- Kalisa -- is Persian for "church" (her dad is a linguist, said the word at dinner with some middle eastern friends of our's at the time I was pregnant, and it sounded unique and beautiful -- and finally we'd both agreed on something for a name). At any rate, I'd be damned if I'd have spelled it the way it was spelled in Farsi and have her go through life having to explain that chit, so I spelled it on her birth cert exactly how it sounds so there was NO confusion and to "Americanize" it. It's pronounced Kuh-lee-sa ... she does get the occasional "kuh-lis-uh" (like Melissa), but that's why there's one 's' vs. two. People who have a strong enough command for English grammar and spelling should know that. So far, I've only ever met/heard of two other's with the same name.