I think in words, and also, specifically with letters. If I don’t know both the spelling of someone’s name and how the spelling corresponds to the pronunciation phonetically, it is MUCH harder for me to remember.
Similar! For me I remember the first letter and the general ‘shape’ of the name most prominently, so knowing the spelling helps me get the length/shape right primarily, and add in a few pepperings of vowel-bits to round out the whole thing.
This does end up with some names feeling nearly identical in my head — like Stacy and Tracy have the exact same word-shape. (I have better examples but they aren’t random-access to maybe I’ll edit this in a week or something if I think of them)
I think in words, and also, specifically with letters. If I don’t know both the spelling of someone’s name and how the spelling corresponds to the pronunciation phonetically, it is MUCH harder for me to remember.
Similar! For me I remember the first letter and the general ‘shape’ of the name most prominently, so knowing the spelling helps me get the length/shape right primarily, and add in a few pepperings of vowel-bits to round out the whole thing.
This does end up with some names feeling nearly identical in my head — like Stacy and Tracy have the exact same word-shape. (I have better examples but they aren’t random-access to maybe I’ll edit this in a week or something if I think of them)