Spelling Rules, OK?

SPELLING RULES , OK? 

Every tried looking up a science fiction name? Couldn’t find it? Well here are some of the reasons we can’t spell sci fi words! 

1.       They spell existing words funetically : 

Abe’s Oddysee (game) (Odyssey); Abe’s Exoddus (game) (Exodus); Cyberia (game) (Siberia); Sibonetics (Fiend without a Face),(cybernetics);  Kamelion (Doctor Who: the King’s Demons) (chameleon); Kameo (Gunsword) (cameo), Karbunkle (BMM) (Carbuncle) , Karibdis (BG Murder on the Rising Star)(Charybdis) , Kheel (Kyle XY: What’s the Frequency Kyle?) (Keel; ,Knute (Appleseed (Canute), Koofoo (Butt Ugly Martians) (Khufu), Koopa (Super Mario Brothers)(Cooper); Kosmonaut (game) (cosmonaut);  Kowalsky (Stargate) (Kowalski) ; Kreed (game) (creed);  Superman: Shadow of Apokolips (title) (Apocalypse);   Toombs (Chronicles of Riddick) (tombs); Xerconian Ceramic Armour  (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)(Zirconian)  ; Z Krypt (Starblazers) (Crypt)  

2.       They add an apostrophe, anywhere in the word : 

      Ba’ku (Star Trek: Insurrection);  G’Kar (Babylon 5), Goa’uld (Stargate); Jem’Hadar (Deep Space 9); Loque’eque (Enterprise:  Extinction);  Raa’Keel ( Farscape:  Lava’s a Many Splendored Thing);  Rya’c (Stargate SG1: Bloodlines);Teal’c (Stargate SG1);  T’raltixx (Farscape: Crackers Don’t Matter),

3.       They use lots of consonants with few or no vowels: 

       Kcrackic (Farscape: The Flax), Kltpzyxm (Smallville: Jinx); Zdyb (Earth Final Conflict: If You Could Read My Mind);  ZZyzx Labs (KXY The List is Life); [Refer to the blog : Sesquipaedialisms Or: the longer is not the Better).

4.       They spell words starting in ‘C’ with ‘K’ : 

        Kandy Man (Doctor Who: the Happiness Patrol) (candy); Krystal (Star Foxx Adventures)(Crystal);  Krypt (Starblazers (Crypt); Klone (Blackstar) (clone); Kosmonaut (game) (cosmonaut);

5.       They swap ‘ph’ and ‘f’  :    

Phage (Star Trek Voyager); Zixx Phunkee Zee  (Zixx Level One ) Funky  

6.       They spell words ending in ‘ck’ with ‘k’: Chik (Black Mask); Jak (Jak and Daxter) ; Nik (The Girl from Tomorrow); Zak (Deep Water Black)

7.       They double X : 

LeLexx (series title/ ship); Rixx (Star Trek Next Generation : Conspiracy); Vexx  (Game/character); Zaxxon (Game); Zixx: Level One (Game).

8.       They change ‘I’ to ‘y’ : 

G    Gryffen (K-9 Regeneration); Kryss (Earth Final Conflict: The Fields);  Klytus (Flash Gordon);Sybok (Star Trek: The Final Frontier); Trychus (Operation Neptune);  Trykers (The Saga of Ryzom); Trymon (The Colour of Magic), Zyra (When Worlds Collide);

9.       They change ‘u’ to ‘oo’ : Koofoo (Butt Ugly Martians) (Khufu),

10.   They double ‘a’ for no good reason, without an apostrophe to change emphasis : 

       Kaarvok (Farscape), Raahm  (Tracker: Roswell ), Raaja (Earth Girl Arjuna);   Raakin  (E Borderland), Raatib Singh (The Phantom 2009 ), Raalgon Empire (Irresponsible Captain Taylor); Saahm (Tracker: Roswell); Skaara (Stargate SG1); Staanz (Farscape); Traag (Fantastic Planet); Zaat  (Film, 1972); Zhaan (Farscape)

11   They double ‘I’ for no valid purpose: Hiigaran (Homeworld 2);  Vidiian (Star Trek Voyager); Viinerine (TNG Face of the Enemy);

12   They double ‘u’ when not necessary: 

      Gomtuu (Star Trek: Tin Man);

13   They add a gratuitous ‘h’ :

       Kharak (Blakes’ 7: the City at the Edge of the World); Kheel (Kyle XY: What’s the Frequency Kyle?); Khefka IV (Deep Space 9: Invasive Procedures); Rhaam  (Jeff Hawke, First citizen of the Space Age, 1956),  Rhed Thorrn (Farscape: A Bug’s Life), Rhee (Tracker: Pilot), Rho-ha (Earth Final Conflict: The Secret of Strand Hill), Ruby Rhod  (Fifth Element), Rhondium  Particles (Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead), Rovhu (Farscape: Eat Me);

14 They put capital letters anywhere:

       eXtinction (game); Hypersonic eXtreme (Game); MegaMan xTreme (game); Space HoRSE (game); seaQuest DSV (series title); tranCendenZ (eXistenZ), Wormhole X-Treme! (Stargate SG1: Wormhole X-Treme!);

15    They're inconsistent 

 Jack and Jak;   

Kryten (Red Dwarf), Kriton (Star Trek: Elaan of Troyius), Crichton;

Komar (Star Trek Voyager Cathexis),    Komarr (Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Series), Comarre (Clarke: The Lion of Comarre),

Rhys (Torchwood), Reece, Reese

16 They use X for Z : 

Xander Bly (Power Rangers Mystic Force) ; Xanxia   (Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet ); Xarai           

(Farscape: Eat Me ); Xax (Andromeda:  Rose in the Ashes ); Xybo, Mr (Slider’s The Return of Maggie Beckett ); Xylok (Sarah Jane Adventures:  The Lost Boy)

17 They use ‘z’ for ‘s’ : Gruntz (game) ; Toolzz (The Bots Master);