While flipping through the Tivo guide the other day I noticed the spelling of his name. What is the point of changing the traditional spelling of William to Willem? I realize that this post could be offensive as there are many parents that have opted to use alternative spellings when naming their child. Most likely the reason being because it's unique. I personally think it's dumb, if you are looking for a unique name than choose a unique name don't change the spelling on a traditional name.
When I saw this I asked David what he thought he agreed that Willem was a dumb way to spell William. It would only lead to poor Willem having to constantly spell his name for the rest of his life. First he will be correcting his teachers: No, Mrs. Jones, it's spelled W-I-L-L-E-M. Then years later we will hear his boss spelling it in the resourcing meeting "Who would you like to assign this project to?", "Willem Dafoe", "I don't see a William Dafoe", "It's spelled W-I-L-L-E-M", "Oh, there it is".
I feel bad that Sydney is always going to have to say, "That's Sydney with a Y" or "it's spelled like Sydney, Australia"
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LOL! I have dealt with this since I can remember. "My name is Jinjer with a J, actually with 2 J's. No, TWO J's. Here, let me just spell it out for you J-I-N-J-E-R." Uuuugh! I agree Kim...go unique all the way, don't try to change traditional to unique.
It could be worse you know. Remember....ODD???
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WILLEM
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: VIL-lum, WIL-lum [key]
Dutch form of WILLIAM
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SYDNEY
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SID-nee [key]
Variant of SIDNEY. A city in Australia bears this name.
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So are you changing her name to Sidney?
Yeah I named my daughter after a City that ended in "den" and then changed the spelling to have a Y making it "dyn".
They will share this woe together :)
Jinjer could never be a Ginger, I just dont see it.
Anonymous, we can't change it because custom embroidery ensured the spelling. It's Sydney.
And Jane your daughters name is unique (and perfect) it's not traditional trying to be unique.
This is a funny post... I never think about Willem Dafoe, but there was a girl on American Idol 2 weeks ago that looked just like him.
And I was having a very similar conversation to this the other night with a friend. We were talking about having gone from simple maiden names to complicated married names and always having to spell. Then she mentioned a friend who is a kindergarten teacher and all the weird names she ends up seeing in class. Like Vagina (pronounced Vageena).
Sydney has it easy :) You'll just need to promise her a trip to Sydney, Australia some day, and she won't mind saying, "that's Sydney like Australia. It's really beautiful there." :)
That Willem wouldn't even sound like the traditional William. It would be like, Will-um. Dumb.
Anyway, I have only seen Sydney as a name spelled that way. That's not bad. Raea has two friends in kindergarten named Sydney, and they both spell it that way.
Willem is one ugly dude. ever since I saw him in platoon I thought he is ugly. So his ugly name fits just right. Willem = ugly
At least Sydney won't have to spell her last name...I'm with the Queen on that topic!
Oh I don't know about that Jenn Ann, my maiden name was Smith and people occasionally asked me to spell it-LOL
I know how this is because I am Teri with an I.
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