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in reply to a message by vigdis
I don't know how to pronounce Dymphna. If I say it the way it looks it sounds like a mumps-type condition that makes your neck glands swell up. I know it's an Irish name and those are pronounced very differently than they look, but if it's pronounced Deena or Dinah, I say just use those names and not try to impress people with the authentic Irishness .
Dimity is icky. It makes me think of a simpering, scatterbrained little girl in a pinafore dress and fat pigtails and buck teeth. Also it sounds very similar to dimwitted.
Dimity is icky. It makes me think of a simpering, scatterbrained little girl in a pinafore dress and fat pigtails and buck teeth. Also it sounds very similar to dimwitted.
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It's Anglicized.
And I love your reasoning. My SIL wanted to name her daughter after a saint, her husband wanted to use an Irish name. We suggested Dymphna because it's the patron saint of lunatics AND an Irish name - we were, of course, not serious. :-D
And I love your reasoning. My SIL wanted to name her daughter after a saint, her husband wanted to use an Irish name. We suggested Dymphna because it's the patron saint of lunatics AND an Irish name - we were, of course, not serious. :-D
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