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HelpRe: Aisling or Eilidh? (more)
in reply to a message by Perrine
They're both usable! I prefer Eilidh. I would say it EYE-lee, but AY-lee is nice too.
The silent consonant in both, would keep me from using either. But it doesn't bother me if it's someone else's name.
If I were going to use Eilidh I would anglicize the spelling, rather than have people say "eyelid??" - that's based on me and where I live, may not make sense to you.
I don't care for Aisling because the -ling visually reminds me of words like fledgling and gosling and darling, and darkling and wildling, and so I feel like it seems trivializing, and phoney-fey. (Probably this is just me - not a reason for you not to use it, but a reason for me not to.) It also slightly reminds me of fish ... probably brisling? And I also don't like the fact that it sounds just like trendy Ashlynn (at least, that's as well as I can approximate the sound of it, if I had to say it all the time).
I would guess that Aisling would be easier to grasp / "more usable," for people where I live - mainly because it sounds just like Ashlyn.
I think people do use both these names here, anyway, though. I think they're not hard to learn.
- mirfak
The silent consonant in both, would keep me from using either. But it doesn't bother me if it's someone else's name.
If I were going to use Eilidh I would anglicize the spelling, rather than have people say "eyelid??" - that's based on me and where I live, may not make sense to you.
I don't care for Aisling because the -ling visually reminds me of words like fledgling and gosling and darling, and darkling and wildling, and so I feel like it seems trivializing, and phoney-fey. (Probably this is just me - not a reason for you not to use it, but a reason for me not to.) It also slightly reminds me of fish ... probably brisling? And I also don't like the fact that it sounds just like trendy Ashlynn (at least, that's as well as I can approximate the sound of it, if I had to say it all the time).
I would guess that Aisling would be easier to grasp / "more usable," for people where I live - mainly because it sounds just like Ashlyn.
I think people do use both these names here, anyway, though. I think they're not hard to learn.
- mirfak
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