Random thought: Kris and variants

[pne]

I think that the spellings "Kristina" / "Kristopher" / "Kris" with initial K- look ugly. As in, icky icky "who would want to call their child that, that's just Wrong" ugly.

Oddly enough, perhaps, I'm fine with "Kristen", "Kristin", and "Kirsten" (and "Kerstin", which I haven't seen on a native English speaker)—possibly because I haven't seen those names spelled with Chr-.

Comments

Re: K vs C

[pne.livejournal.com]

I feel that "Katherine" is unusual (and perhaps not preferable) but not ugly.

Oh, and I think that "Katharine" is even more unusual, though I've seen it.