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Semi-related note. I saw a a teacher or comedian, or maybe a comedian who had been a teacher talking about how so many folks these days are giving their kids regular names with highly unusual spellings. And it makes sense. If you give your kid a common name, but spelled in a way that's not only uncommon, but invented by you, and it's not able to be phonetically sounded out, then you cannot be irritated or offended if that name gets butchered. You as the parent that invented the name caused this problem. You need to be prepared to deal with it, and teach your kid to deal with it. You shouldn't try to shame people for it.

And Clovis sounds like a name that would have been more common 150-200 years ago. I'd half expect to hear it in old westerns or maybe historic films set in England.
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