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[Opinions] Central Ontario Birth Announcements

by lovenames

4/30/2005, 5:02 PM

Siblings are in brackets/

Girls:

Charlotte Ann
Dana Nicole (Connor, Taylor-Lauren and Madison)
Julia Bree
Sofia Constance
Caia Thierry (Joey and Hal)
Ava Barbara
Victoria Joanne Laura
Mia Paige
Jessica Sage
Olivia Rose (Joshua)
Bridget Elena (Brianna, Braeden and Brooklyn - parents are Brenda and Brian)
Ashley Makena and Taylor Nicole (Dylan)
Brandi Lauren and Jessica Arynn (Alyssa)

Boys:

Noah John Ashton (Isabella and Sebastian)
Jackson Angus
Kalev Amadeus (Tiia, Hansen and Maarika)
Logan Cole (Dylan)
Hamish Andrew Skye (Declan)
Nathan James
Liam Lawrence (Stephanie and Mitchell)
Jonah Harley (Addie)

#BAs

Replies

- Lissa Hannah (Lissa)

5/1/2005, 1:59 PM

I like:
Charlotte Ann (I prefer the spelling Anne)
(Connor, Taylor)
Julia Bree (I prefer Brianne or Brianna with Bree as a nickname)
Sofia (I prefer the spelling Sophia)
(Joey) - (I prefer Joseph with Joey as a nickname)
Victoria Joanne Laura
Paige (I only like this name as a middle name, as it's used)
Jessica
Rose (Joshua)
(Brianna, Brian)
Ashley and Taylor Nicole (Dylan)
Jessica (Alyssa)

John Ashton (Isabella)
Jackson
Logan (Dylan)
Andrew
Nathan James
Liam (Stephanie) - (I prefer William with Liam as a nickname)

-Lissa Hannah-
My twelve !'s = Kipling, Barry, Mortimer, Miles, Marmaduke, Fletcher, Maris, Blanche, Gladys, Arlette, Glenda, and Juniper

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- alice (alice17)

5/1/2005, 5:58 AM

I love Sofia Constance! It's very different, Nathan James is cute too

Alice

My favourite names are Henry Atticus, Theodore Brishan, Fabien Baruch, Coral Alice, Iris Perdita and Anouk Iris

Proud big sister to Sophie and Isabel

- Miranda (Randee15) +1

4/30/2005, 11:45 PM

Dear god! The Bs! O_o

Also, I think Taylor-Lauren looks very odd. I can't quite put my finger on precisely why, but maybe it has something to do with the fact that Lauren looks like it was tacked onto Taylor to make it more "feminine" or something.

Thierry is a male name... :-(

I like:
Charlotte Ann - Prefer Anne
Dana Nicole
Sofia Constance
Caia - This actually looks retro-classical Roman to me, not modernish. See Caius
Ava Barbara
Victoria Joanne Laura
Olivia Rose - A touch cheesey (Olivia = olives so easily), but it's not too bad
Bridget Elena
Brenda
Alyssa
Isabella
Tiia - How do you pronounce this?
Maarika - Ditto Tiia's question
Stephanie

Joshua
Brian
Dylan
Noah John Ashton
Sebastian
Jackson Angus - Very cowboyish and kind of nms, but I'm just grateful they didn't butcher my surname's spelling
Kalev Amadeus - I'm assuming Kalev's a Finnish form of Caleb. Am I right? And how would this be pronounced?

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- Caitlín (cait)

5/1/2005, 7:04 AM

Tiia and Maarika pronunciations.

Finnish is completely phonetic, like Italian. Double letters (whether they be consonants or vowels) double the length of the sound. So, if it's a double consonant, it's like the /k/ in "bookkeeper"--there's a little pause in the middle of the consonant to prolong it. If it's a double vowel, you just hold it a little longer, like in the /oo/ in the phrase "to whom" if you took out the "wh". Stress falls on the first syllable. So:

Tiia = TEE-ya
Maarika = MAA-ree-kah

~ Caitlín