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Ashleigh is a form of the English surname Ashley, from the Old English æsc (ash trees) and lēah (wood, clearing, meadow, enclosure) meaning "dweller near the ash tree forest". [1] As a first name it is the most common spelling for girls in England and Wales.
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
Old English (Englisc or Ænglisc, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ] or [ˈæŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, [1] was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.
Old English did possess a voiced velar fricative sound [ɣ], which developed from Proto-Germanic *ɡ, but [ɣ] is usually analyzed as a separate phoneme from /x/: the sounds were normally distinguished in spelling, with [ɣ] written as g and /x/ as h , although some unetymological interchange of these spellings occurs, especially in word-final ...
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Katherine (/ k æ θ ə r ɪ n /), also spelled Catherine and other variations, is a feminine given name.The name and its variants are popular in countries where large Christian populations exist, because of its associations with one of the earliest Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria.
Hayley (pronounced / ˈ h eɪ l i /) is an English given name. It is derived from the English surname Haley, which in turn was based on an Old English toponym, a compound of heg "hay" and leah "clearing or meadow". [1] While it can be used for males, [2] Hayley is most commonly a female given name.
Cheryl is a feminine given name with multiple origins. The name might have originated as a combination of the name Beryl with the prefix Cher-from the French chérie, meaning darling (from the past participle of the verb chérir, to cherish). [1] The name has also been considered a variant of Charles, which is pronounced SHARL in French.