A MUM has been accused of signing her daughter up for a lifetime of misery with the unique name she gave her.
Em took to TikTok to admit she’s getting frustrated with people constantly pronouncing her little girl’s unique moniker wrong, and said it happens everywhere she goes.
“This happens every time we go out,” she sighed.
Recalling how she’d been in Home Bargains with her 13-month-old daughter Elae – pronounced L.A. – Em said the woman on the checkout had asked what her name was.
But when Em told her, she misheard it, and called her “Ella”.
Em then corrected her, but could see her “brain working” as she was “trying to figure it out”.
“I can see that they’re thinking that I’ve spelt her name with two letters,” she continued in a video on her TikTok page.
“And you can see I’m trying to figure it out.
“Like has she really put two letters as her name on her birth certificate?
“No, no I haven’t!”
And the mistake even happened in the doctors too.
“The doctor comes out, ‘Ely, room one’,” she said.
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“Why would I call my daughter, Ely? It’s not Ely.
“Like why are people just not getting it? I don’t understand.”
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“And I can guarantee that there’s gonna be no other girl in her school called this name,” she insisted.
“(But) I feel like this poor girl for the rest of her life is gonna have to justify her name to everybody!”
“They’re just not getting it!” Em added in the caption.
People were quick to comment, as one wrote: “‘This poor girl is going to have to justify her name for the rest of her life’ …and you did that to her.”
“Why do it then?!” another questioned.
“If people decide to spell names a little ‘different’ don’t get mad at those trying to pronounce it!” a third insisted.
“As an NHS worker I see all sorts I can’t pronounce. We try!”
“If you pick an unusual spelling you must know you are going to get this,” someone else said.
“But why give her the headache of constantly having correct/justify her name?” another asked.
“‘Poor girl’ … YOU did that.”
“I’m nearly 40 and it p**ses me off correcting people daily,” someone else admitted.
“I curse my parents for my name!”