Tragedeighs of the 1970's
My name is pretty common for its time and has a normal spelling but I just came across a differently spelled version of my name on a help desk ticket and it got me thinking about how tragedeighs have been around for a long time (people giving a unique spelling to a normal name). Some examples I've seen on different tickets include:
Amy = Amie, Aimee, Amee, Amey
Jennifer = Jenifer, Jenipher, Jennypher
Kimberly = Kymberly, Kymberlee, Kimberley, Kimberlee
Rebecca = Rebekah, Rebeca, Rabecka
Kelly = Kellie, Keli, Kelli
None of these are near as egregious as what we see today, but I wonder if people cringed about the alternate spelling back then just as much as we do now.