How do you spell Katherine?

paulineb_2

I understand, but Kally and Callie isnt something Id think was a natural shortened version of Catherine. If she likes the name Callie or Kallie/y why not just call her that instead?

daisiegg

paulineb wrote: »

Cath reen or Cath er een, but anyone I know called Catherine, its pronounced more like Cath reen, if the er in the middle is prounounced its very slight not like Cath-er-een, the er is hardly heard.

Im around 15 miles from Glasgow, thats how everyone Ive known growing up and Ive known a few Catherines, has pronounced their name.

It may well be a Lanarkshire thing, but thats how people say Catherine around here.

Haha, my family are from Lanarkshire! Airdrie, to be precise. Weird that I have never heard that spelling!

paulineb_2

daisiegg wrote: »

Haha, my family are from Lanarkshire! Airdrie, to be precise. Weird that I have never heard that spelling!

My mum was born in Airdrie and grew up there. My gran was also born in Airdrie. My family on my grans side were from Aberfeldy in Perthshire but my great gran moved down to Lanarkshire to get married.

My grandpa moved around with his job, he worked in the steelworks in Motherwell so they moved from Airdrie to Hamilton, he then got a house that was tied to the job so moved there and then to Wishaw. I was actually born in Glasgow as my parents met at uni there but Ive been in Lanarkshire since I was two and thats over 40 years now.

Lanarkshire people do speak a bit funny, maybe Wishaw people speak the funniest out of all of them, obviously you can pronounce things differently even from ten miles away.

lostinrates

paulineb wrote: »

I understand, but Kally and Callie isnt something Id think was a natural shortened version of Catherine. If she likes the name Callie or Kallie/y why not just call her that instead?

I wouldn't have assumed catherine either. Probably were it not a name in its own right I might have thought Calista.

But then......does it matter? Maybe they want the name Catherine (whatever spelling) for a reason ?

If I had a son (which I don't) I quite liked the nick name Happy and would have hoped he were happy so might have called him that. But I wasn't going to call him Henry or Harry to make it make sense. The nicknames for the names DH and I wanted for a son weren't abbreviations we particularly liked, but what the theoretical child chose as he gre up would have been his choice!

He might have changed his name to John for simplicity. :rotfl:

SmlSave

DH's name is three letters and no-one can spell it so he wants an official first name that most people can spell automatically. Having to say with a 'C' or a 'K' doesn't annoy him though

Callie/Kally is classed as an unusual name with him.

We also have to spell our surname as its not English

pelirocco

My BIL told us if they had a girl she would be called Katherine . After she was born and after everyone sent cards with the spelling on,he insisted he had told every one it was Catherine because he liked the shortened version of Cathy ..........she has always been called Cath

My name is always being spelt wrong , or rather spelt as the male version , annoying as hell , even yesterday at a works even my name place was spelt wrong

minerva_windsong

I work with a Kathryn and lived with a Katharine at university. If I was using it for my own daughter it'd be Catherine shortened to Catie/Cate/Cat - for no reason other than I like the way it looks written down compared to Catherine.

In my experience I'd say the K spelling is more common, although it's one of those names you'll have to spell anyway so I'd just go for the one you like!

honeypop

SmlSave wrote: »

DH's name is three letters and no-one can spell it so he wants an official first name that most people can spell automatically. Having to say with a 'C' or a 'K' doesn't annoy him though

As you've seen from this thread, that's just not going to happen with so many variations on what people think is the most 'usual' way to spell it. Saying "Catherine with a C" won't help people much with the choice of endings it could have.

I have the same problem with my name, and even though I when I tell people my name and specify whether it starts with a C or K, I also have to follow that by telling them how it ends too, as there's also many variations, like in this case with the endings of Catherine (ryn, reen, rin etc).

If he wants a name that most people will be able to spell, choose something that doesn't have alternative spellings!

Slinky

If you always pronounce it 'Cath er rin with a C' I reckon 90% of the time people will write Catherine.

I've never heard of Callie being short for Catherine.

I've never understood how Harry can be short for Henry seeing they both have the same number of letters. Harry is short for Harold.

lostinrates

Slinky wrote: »

If you always pronounce it 'Cath er rin with a C' I reckon 90% of the time people will write Catherine.

I've never heard of Callie being short for Catherine.

I've never understood how Harry can be short for Henry seeing they both have the same number of letters. Harry is short for Harold.

Nevertheless, Harry IS 'short for' or an affectionate term of Henry too.