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Re: Rosemary? and a male sibset, and Old English names.

by alice (alice17)

2/11/2005, 4:05 AM

Rosemary is pretty but it's the name of my half-aunt so I could never use it

Cordelia and Rosemary - nice
Beatrice and Rosemary - beautiful!
Celia and Rosemary - beautiful again!
Jesse and Rosemary - I love Jesse but it sounds like too much of a nickname rather than a formal one
Calvin and Rosemary - these don't look right together for some reason
Rosemary and Margaret - with the nns Rosie and Maggie this is really cute

Alfred and Aubrey go really well but I don't like Aubrey - something about the 'elf power' makes me chuckle :)

I like:

Annis
Ætte - how do you pronounce this?

Hædde
Mungo

alice x

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- Caitlín (cait) +1

2/11/2005, 5:53 AM

Ætte pronunciation.

The Old English "Æ" is pronounced like the "a" in "cat", and words were accented on the first syllable, so I'm assuming AT-te, with the final "e" pronounced the Italian/Old English way (similar to the Modern English sound /ay/).

~ Caitlín

"Blue tinted individuals who go about armed to the teeth and quoting twelfth-century poetry are not easy to comprehend." ~ Lloyd Alexander

- alice (alice17)

2/11/2005, 10:39 AM

Thanks :)

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