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What do you think of the name Matilde (Ma-til-da), also spelled Matilda? What spelling do you prefer? What do you think of the name? What middle name would you pair with it? Lastly what names would fit well with it as a brother or sister?
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I associate it with probably the best dog I've ever had: it was her name when we adopted her from the rescue centre, and she knew it, so we kept it. I'd never had any thoughts about it, but that changed. Unfortunately, I don't connect it with humans!
Matilde looks wrong to me on two counts. I'm used to pronouncing the -e at the ends of some names sometimes, so that's OK, but I'm also used to seeing Mathilde as a French name and hearing it, in my head, with a silent -e.
Matilde looks wrong to me on two counts. I'm used to pronouncing the -e at the ends of some names sometimes, so that's OK, but I'm also used to seeing Mathilde as a French name and hearing it, in my head, with a silent -e.
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It's okay. My cousin has a baby named Matylda, which I don't like.
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I like it! I used it for a character in a story I'm writing. I prefer the Matilda spelling.
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I enjoy it most when pronounced, as spelled, Mathilde; however the breathy letter /h/ would serve as a variable between Math-ild or Mat-hild; the letter 'e' may also serve as a second variable as to whether it is pronounced or not.
If I were named Mathilde (I am not), but if I were - I would not combine the "th" as in "th"ick or "th"is or "th"at- but have the letter /t/ and the softer breathy letter /h/ serve independently. I love the breathy 'h' whose presence is more felt than heard. Nor I would not pronounce the (silent) /e/. I might eventually omit the silent 'e' - especially if it encouraged others to pronounce it. I would not mind to hear it "softly spoken" - so to speak, but I'd need to draw the line before it served more as a schwa - bringing little difference to the /a/ suffix on that somewhat common version of the name.
I really love that letter /h/ - independent to the letter /t/ which precedes it.
"By his gates of breath
There lies a downy feather which stirs not:
Did he suspire, that light and weightless down
Perforce must move Henry IV 2 / IV / 5 /
If I were named Mathilde (I am not), but if I were - I would not combine the "th" as in "th"ick or "th"is or "th"at- but have the letter /t/ and the softer breathy letter /h/ serve independently. I love the breathy 'h' whose presence is more felt than heard. Nor I would not pronounce the (silent) /e/. I might eventually omit the silent 'e' - especially if it encouraged others to pronounce it. I would not mind to hear it "softly spoken" - so to speak, but I'd need to draw the line before it served more as a schwa - bringing little difference to the /a/ suffix on that somewhat common version of the name.
I really love that letter /h/ - independent to the letter /t/ which precedes it.
"By his gates of breath
There lies a downy feather which stirs not:
Did he suspire, that light and weightless down
Perforce must move Henry IV 2 / IV / 5 /
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