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HelpRe: Eglantine, Ghislaine and Segolene
in reply to a message by Bear
I really love Eglantine. In the language of flowers it means poetry. Elizabeth Barrett Browning mentions it in one of her Sonnets to the Portuguese (looked it up, it is sonnet XLIV) along with Ivy, meaning fidelity and friendship. You could have an Eglantine and an Ivy, but it might be a bit too botanical.
I think you can pronounce it your way and it is the way it is pronounced on the database, but in class we pronounced it with the -tine rather an -teen ending. Maybe it is like Clementine and either would be acceptable. I'm not sure, we might have been mispronouncing it.
Ghislane is interesting. I think I like it.
I love Segolene. Did you get it from the French politician Ségolène Royal? I don't know much about her politics, but when I saw her on TV I remember thinking she was very pretty and has a beautiful name.
I think you can pronounce it your way and it is the way it is pronounced on the database, but in class we pronounced it with the -tine rather an -teen ending. Maybe it is like Clementine and either would be acceptable. I'm not sure, we might have been mispronouncing it.
Ghislane is interesting. I think I like it.
I love Segolene. Did you get it from the French politician Ségolène Royal? I don't know much about her politics, but when I saw her on TV I remember thinking she was very pretty and has a beautiful name.
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