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HelpRe: Thoughts on a nickname for my still-regretful name choice....
in reply to a message by anxiolytics
*sigh*
I think you should stick with Rosalie. Zalia sounds like a new sleep medication that just came out on the market and will be recalled in six months.
I don't know...it seems to me like you are trying to find things to dislike about the chosen name, and it's not getting you anywhere. I don't blame your husband for being annoyed, because I would be, too.
I think you should stick with Rosalie. Zalia sounds like a new sleep medication that just came out on the market and will be recalled in six months.
I don't know...it seems to me like you are trying to find things to dislike about the chosen name, and it's not getting you anywhere. I don't blame your husband for being annoyed, because I would be, too.
This message was edited 4/10/2012, 12:43 PM
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Maybe he has found a new wife then, lol! I may be looking for things to be annoyed by, but honestly, I think it is the mutilation of the stress on the "lee" sound in the name and my southern origins that is putting me off-(and my inability to correct people without sounding like a witch) so I've lost a lot of my like for the name by having this newly established association of a compound name foisted upon it.
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I don't know many people who pronounce it rosa-LEE, but we probably live in different regions. If it were me, I'd keep her name on the birth certificate and just call her Rose, but you aren't me, so do whatever YOU think is best.
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Me neither-I didn't even know the name much, knew one older lady named that. I am truly surprised at how people are saying it, I am in the northeast, but from the south, and am getting it pronounced with said emphasis by maybe 1 out of 3 people. Even my good friend who hails from the midwest said that and also spells it Rosalee, (even though I've written it to her in its correct form/corrected her). Don't get me wrong, there ARE people who are saying it with the emphasis on the preferred/accurate syllable. Either way, I'll need to find a way to live with the name, either by letting it roll off my shoulders (at which I am clearly failing ATM) or find a solution with a nickname.
This message was edited 4/10/2012, 6:36 PM
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My name is Rachael, pronounced like Rachel. There are a lot of people who pronounce it Rochelle, but I simply correct them. It's one of those things a lot of people have to live with, and it's really not a big deal. It used to annoy me when I was a kid, but I got used to it, and now it just rolls off my back.
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Hi-My name is Caroline-always got mispronounced as Carolyn, but like you it bothered me a lot as a child, and as an adult I have gotten used to it-I do still correct people though and didn't want to wish that on my kids, especially giving her a name whose correction would be far more difficult due to its subtlety-but C'est la Vie with most names at least the more unusual ones, towards which I gravitate.
This message was edited 4/10/2012, 8:01 PM
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total ditto
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