We have our first baby on the way. My wife and I love the name ‘Violet’, pronounced ‘Vi-let’ but she would like to spell it as ‘Violette’ instead.
I fear that people would pronounce it ‘Vee-o-let’ instead of ‘Vi-let’ and the child would be subject to a lifetime of correcting people. My wife thinks that because we can speak French we know ‘Vee-o-let’ but most people will still say ‘Vi-let’
Thoughts?
I have a name that is uncommon where I live, so a lot of people don’t know how to pronounce it or spell it. And if they do, they will spell it wrong anyway, because I have an uncommon spelling. It’s also a relatively long name, so spelling it out letter for letter is quite annoying and error prone.
I’m used to it though, so I don’t really care. From my experience I would say you are overthinking things. A “lifetime of correcting people” is not really a big deal and it’s worth it to have a cool name.
