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HelpFuschia is horrible ...
in reply to a message by FuschiaNicole
it is wrong! And this is why (from wiki):
While the original pronunciation from the word's German origin is "fook-sya" /ˈfʊksja/, most English speakers tend to say "fyew'sha" /ˈfjuːʃə/. As a result, the word is often subjected to misspellings such as "fushcia" or "fuschia". In English, the other acceptable pronunciation is "fyewk'see-ah", which is somewhat truer to the word's origin.
I dunno if you care for it, but I really wouldn't use a wrongly spelled word as a name. By the way, Fuchs means "fox" in German.
But I do like Fuchsia :) I think it works better as a middle name though, so Nicole Fuchsia. Then it's really beautiful. As a first name it's too much of a word to me, since it doesn't seem to be as well established as Scarlet or Violet. Also it seems to be an easy-to-make-fun-of-name, as others mentioned already.
While the original pronunciation from the word's German origin is "fook-sya" /ˈfʊksja/, most English speakers tend to say "fyew'sha" /ˈfjuːʃə/. As a result, the word is often subjected to misspellings such as "fushcia" or "fuschia". In English, the other acceptable pronunciation is "fyewk'see-ah", which is somewhat truer to the word's origin.
I dunno if you care for it, but I really wouldn't use a wrongly spelled word as a name. By the way, Fuchs means "fox" in German.
But I do like Fuchsia :) I think it works better as a middle name though, so Nicole Fuchsia. Then it's really beautiful. As a first name it's too much of a word to me, since it doesn't seem to be as well established as Scarlet or Violet. Also it seems to be an easy-to-make-fun-of-name, as others mentioned already.
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I assumed that the spelling was variable because of my dictionary, which lists both spellings, but apparently I was wrong. Whoops. I think -sch looks betters than -chs, though, still, because fuchsia begins with fuc and then a h which, with sloppy handwriting, could easily look like a k, so I always preferred the fuschia spelling. But you are right in that mispelled named are horrible. It's a dilemma.
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fuschia is always a misspelling
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I understand Fuchsia hasn't been established as a "name" (I don't believe Scarlet and Violet are established names they are a color and flower they were before it was used and is still after) but maybe if people starting using it it would. I'm sure the first Scarlets and Violets were "odd".
This message was edited 2/7/2008, 10:30 AM
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