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Help[Opinions] Re: Gerard and Renard
in reply to a message by Anneza, nsi
Gerard seems to be getting more online love than I imagined. I assumed it would still bit a bit too dusty for folk... but am glad to be proven wrong!
Renard is a bit obvious as a fox, but I kinda like it that way. Reynard is easier to read and say I suppose. I wonder if it's a big faux pas to use a foxy name in francophone areas?
I mean, we use Fleur, Capucine, Noel... plus names like Avril, Etoile, Chantal and Cerise are actual French words.
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"How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment before starting to improve upon the world." -Ann Frank
Mama to my "bright star" Clarisse Bituin and Wife to Julius. Mahal na mahal from our little family to yours!
Renard is a bit obvious as a fox, but I kinda like it that way. Reynard is easier to read and say I suppose. I wonder if it's a big faux pas to use a foxy name in francophone areas?
I mean, we use Fleur, Capucine, Noel... plus names like Avril, Etoile, Chantal and Cerise are actual French words.
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"How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment before starting to improve upon the world." -Ann Frank
Mama to my "bright star" Clarisse Bituin and Wife to Julius. Mahal na mahal from our little family to yours!
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And Fox is a perfectly ordinary English surname! Though I've never seen it used as a fn for that or any other reason. Honestly, in today's world I don't think most people would turn a hair, though the French are more traditionally-minded or just more fussy than us Anglophones. Do foxes even happen where you live? Where I am, we only have jackals.
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We DO have foxes. But only because about 75 years ago they let a bunch of them loose in the forests around here to take care of some other problem-animal population.
There is a big whole story my Granfather used to tell me every time we drove by the wood entry where they let them go. He remembered it. Now I feel aweful I forgot the story - but super excited that I kind've have a reason to name a kid "fox"!
Ha.
I actually think I might ask a few French friends if it's too weird, if we end up pregnant with a boy.
There is a big whole story my Granfather used to tell me every time we drove by the wood entry where they let them go. He remembered it. Now I feel aweful I forgot the story - but super excited that I kind've have a reason to name a kid "fox"!
Ha.
I actually think I might ask a few French friends if it's too weird, if we end up pregnant with a boy.
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