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My wife always wanted a child with an unusual spelling of a popular name (lemmy.ml)

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When we had our firstborn, she said, “How about we name him Mark, but with a C?”

I smiled and nodded and then told her I’d take care of everything with the name registration and birth certificate. When my wife looked at the birth certificate a few days later, she was confused.

“Honey”, she said. “Why does this say Cark?”

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[–] MetaPhrastes 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Italy the name Mirko, imported from Slavic neighbouring countries, is quite diffused but it's not uncommon to ask «Do you spell it with a c or with a k?» because the k letter is not normally used in Italian spelling. To which the answer is often (joking) «Obviously with a k otherwise it would be a circus» due to the fact that Mirko and circo sound very similar in our language.

[–] debeluhar 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being a slavic, from slavic neighbouring country, it's really strange seeing you have name Mirko in Italy.

[–] MetaPhrastes 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was very popular in the 80s and 90s, indeed. With the new millennium it became slightly less "trendy" in favour of other "foreign-sounding" names. Trust me, Italians really like loans from foreign languages, even for peoples' given names. This often create a comic contrast with very Italian family names e.g. "Jennifer Fumagalli" or "Thomas Bongiovanni" which sound a little kitsch but it's also adorable.