What's worse is that even the apostrophe is a workaround because of the general inability of more older systems/institutions (especially ones depending on typewriters and typesetters) to write or recognise a fada. So now even the workaround is causing problems that need to be worked around.I've been beaten down by the apostrophe police, I usually don't even try to include it anymore on anything that is machine read.
And even though modern systems should be able to handle any standard accented character without a problem, they still end up causing all kinds of random issues.
Had the same thing happen at a previous job, it got caught immediately and sent back to be changed before it had a chance to break anything. Problem there is that some systems are okay with it and some are not.Humorously, my current job set up my email including the apostrophe. Somehow the system allowed it to happen, but it caused plenty of problems lol.
As with many one-syllable names, it's a sound that appeared in a lot of languages, so there's multiple places that have it as a surname.
Hmm, I suppose that makes sense for some of them. Things like "Sheriadan" and "Mongons" are definitely spelling mistakes though.I went to school with a Dorran and a guy called William Kell, my mum works with someone with the surname McHarg. This is in Scotland and are fairly common, I don't think they are spelling mistakes, just names that do exist.
Not particularly common, but not unusual.