Friday, 27 January 2012
Well that would be ‘cherry’.

- One of my colleagues when I was explaining that the spelling “Sheree” is very Australian, whereas I’d spell that name “Cherie”.

They do it with lots of names though… “Sharnee”, “Shaani” (funnily enough pronounced the same), Shaynee, Stevie, Renae, Reece (and yeah I’ve seen it spelt like that in the UK too but it still seems wrong and I get vacant looks when I spell it Rhys here). It’s almost as if no one looks up baby names and they just spell them phonetically.