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in reply to a message by lovenames
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?
Nathan James
Mitchell
Jonah Harley - Prefer Jonas in this case. The ending H of Jonah and the beginning H of Harley doesn't sound very good to me
Miranda
"Six hours later I still haven't done my homework, but I did come up with 245 name combos, seven of which I might name my child." — Modified LJ icon quote
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks.
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?
Nathan James
Mitchell
Jonah Harley - Prefer Jonas in this case. The ending H of Jonah and the beginning H of Harley doesn't sound very good to me
Miranda
"Six hours later I still haven't done my homework, but I did come up with 245 name combos, seven of which I might name my child." — Modified LJ icon quote
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks.
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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
?????????????? ~ Elspeth, Merry, Tomás, Kip, Ælfwine, Adán, Marit, Bran, Ester, Andrew, Isobel, Jeromiah Andrea, Annit Elisabetta, Josue Alejandro
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
?????????????? ~ Elspeth, Merry, Tomás, Kip, Ælfwine, Adán, Marit, Bran, Ester, Andrew, Isobel, Jeromiah Andrea, Annit Elisabetta, Josue Alejandro
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