right on!
from ken-jennings.com, concerning things that annoyed the crap out of him: The woman dragging in four kids for first-day-of-school haircuts had to spell every name. In none of the four cases could you reverse-engineer the spelling of the name from its pronunciation or vice versa. The one that really got me listening was “‘Kylie’-K-I-E-L-E.” I know this isn’t exactly the freshest vein for comedy, but it bears repeating: parents who do this are idiots. Congratulations-your daughter will spend something like 18 total months of her life spelling and pronouncing her name to people. But on the other hand, you got to-what? I don’t even know what the trade-off is. Express your creativity? Show the world that your special little snowflake is unworthy of spellings that might have been sullied by others? T minus two months or so until we have to name a baby girl, and I can promise you it won’t be “Emmillie” or “Graiyce” or “Wrooth.”