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HelpRe: Still suffering from name regret-thoughts/advice appreciated (LONG)
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She's 7 weeks old, that's totally fine. People will get over it.
Why not other Rose names? Any others you like? Does she not look like a Violet? I don't think Violet's going to explode in popularity any time soon, but that's just me, and this is coming from an Emily born in the 90s.
To go with Isabel, Schuyler, Saoirse, and Felix and out of the U.S. 200:
Adeline
Coralie - or will there be pronunciation issues there too?
Eliza
Genevieve
Imogen - although you'd have to have another starting with F ;)
Juniper
Matilda
Olive
Pearl
Sylvie
Tabitha
Ruby - okay inside the 200 but I think she fits so well!
Willow
Xanthe
(and there's a suburb near mine called Rosalie. Locals say RosaLEE too, I guess. It's definitely not ROsalee. I always thought that's how you say it.)
Why not other Rose names? Any others you like? Does she not look like a Violet? I don't think Violet's going to explode in popularity any time soon, but that's just me, and this is coming from an Emily born in the 90s.
To go with Isabel, Schuyler, Saoirse, and Felix and out of the U.S. 200:
Adeline
Coralie - or will there be pronunciation issues there too?
Eliza
Genevieve
Imogen - although you'd have to have another starting with F ;)
Juniper
Matilda
Olive
Pearl
Sylvie
Tabitha
Ruby - okay inside the 200 but I think she fits so well!
Willow
Xanthe
(and there's a suburb near mine called Rosalie. Locals say RosaLEE too, I guess. It's definitely not ROsalee. I always thought that's how you say it.)
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Interesting about your suburb. The only Rosalie I know is pronounced with the emphasis on the ROS, but it just goes to show anything goes! As for other Rose names-only one I like is Rosalie.
Maybe I should just go with violet-it doesn't flow quite as easily and he didn't care for it as much, but it would be easier to sell than a full change.
My current hope would be to change it to Katrina, but he is not keen on that. On your list, I love Willow but he felt it had a bit of a trendy/hippy sound so he nixed it.
I am lad you don't think it is a bi deal to change it, everyone else in my family seems to.
Maybe I should just go with violet-it doesn't flow quite as easily and he didn't care for it as much, but it would be easier to sell than a full change.
My current hope would be to change it to Katrina, but he is not keen on that. On your list, I love Willow but he felt it had a bit of a trendy/hippy sound so he nixed it.
I am lad you don't think it is a bi deal to change it, everyone else in my family seems to.
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Violet is lovely and I don't think its relative popularity is that big a deal. And it would be easier just to flip the names around, sure.
On the other hand...
I don't know, I think Rosalie is pretty pronounced both ways. Plus it's only a difference in syllable stress, right? To me that's not as dramatic between Caroline / Carolyn or something like Maya being pronounced MAY-uh instead of MY-uh (or vice versa). The only people who are going to mispronounce it on a regular basis will be strangers. Is seven weeks not long enough to warm up to beautiful Rosalie? Your call. :)
On the other hand...
I don't know, I think Rosalie is pretty pronounced both ways. Plus it's only a difference in syllable stress, right? To me that's not as dramatic between Caroline / Carolyn or something like Maya being pronounced MAY-uh instead of MY-uh (or vice versa). The only people who are going to mispronounce it on a regular basis will be strangers. Is seven weeks not long enough to warm up to beautiful Rosalie? Your call. :)
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You are right, the issue of stress is not as dramatic as a letter change, it is more the issue of it's sounding as though people are saying it as two names, just putting the emphasis there on LEE. I know almost all names get mispronounced, but for some reason this sounds like butchering to my ear in a way that makes me cringe/turns it from pretty to tacky even though it is not even a different letter, just an issue of stress!
Maybe I do need more time to warm up to it, and jsut deal with the fact that this will occasionally happen. Everyone seems too like it when we mention it-but I hate to pass by an opportunity to "get it right." Violet is certainly the other option, it may not gain as mcuh popularity as I think.
Maybe I do need more time to warm up to it, and jsut deal with the fact that this will occasionally happen. Everyone seems too like it when we mention it-but I hate to pass by an opportunity to "get it right." Violet is certainly the other option, it may not gain as mcuh popularity as I think.
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