How do you spell Katherine?

Armchair23

In the 'olden days' a lot of names were spelt differently depending on whether you were a Catholic or a Protestant family.

I was named after a Grandmother , in those days you were sort of expected to do that and keep on the right side of family members. But I was always called by my 'middle' name, my middle name was then shortened to a nickname. Sigh....

Filling in forms still remains a total nightmare and if anyone ever rings up with my 'given' name I never answer to it first time round !

Choose something you love & KISS (keep it simple, stupid) !

time2deal

balletshoes wrote: »

which in the grand scheme of things, is really no big deal .

Not a big deal, but something to think about. My parents both have unusual names, and all four kids have simple easy to spell popular names. They swore they wouldn't inflict a weird name of any of the kids.

I was also very pleased when I changed from a slightly complex surname to a very simple one, and loved that I no longer had to spell both first and last names. It does get tedious.

ellay864

My best friend from a very young age was Katherine...I was quite surprised as I got older to find most people spelt it differently. I'm a Lynda and have all but given up on people spelling it with the 'y'...even my own nan never once got it right in 30 years. It bugs me most when people reply to an e-mail addressing me as Linda when the attached message from me clearly shows my spelling!

cazziebo

Person_one wrote: »

I have to ask, if you wanted her to be called Kate, why didn't you just call her Kate? It's not a very 'babyish' sounding name, and there's always Katie or Kat for nicknames.

Because I have a name that can't be shortened and really always wanted one!

Also, I love the name Katherine - strong and feminine.

Valli

aeb wrote: »

Years ago I taught a boy who had special needs who became a young father.
He made his baby daughter a card and asked me to help him write inside. I asked what her name was. He got a piece of paper out of his pocket with the words he wanted

"I love you KT"

I know a Kt

seriously!

Robisere

Haven't got past the first page of this post, but this is the Scots Gaelic root:

Caitlin - pronounced - Kaht'leen.
English equivalent is Catherine or Cathleen.

There must be something more meaningful for you to argue about!

Soleil_lune

Catherine

Soleil_lune

paulineb wrote: »

Ive only ever seen the name spelled Amy or Aimee. Im sure there are many other ways but I wonder why people have to spell something quite differently particularly when the original version is an easy to spell name. Its going to be the child who spends their life correcting people when they get the spelling wrong.

EXACTLY! I do hate these silly different spellings of regular names.

cazziebo

Robisere wrote: »

Haven't got past the first page of this post, but this is the Scots Gaelic root:

Caitlin - pronounced - Kaht'leen.
English equivalent is Catherine or Cathleen.

There must be something more meaningful for you to argue about!

I'd always thought Caitlin was Irish and Catriona was the Scottish form?

arbroath_lass

cazziebo wrote: »

I'd always thought Caitlin was Irish and Catriona was the Scottish form?

That was my understanding also.