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HelpRe: i think this is your hormones talking for you...
in reply to a message by RoxStar
ITA, I totally recognize that we have two names that already get mangled regularly. you are correct, Saoirse is a beast to defend but I love it so it has never caused me grief. Yet something about the southern/countryishness or hearing "Rosa Lee" just really set me off, I guess b/c it seemed harder to correct? I mean, it's not like people are "mispronouncing," IYKWIM.
I also agree that Persephone will definitely get mangled, and truncated, which was why I decided not to go down that road, we were certain it would get shortened. I want to clarify to you that I regret Isabel largely b/c it IS in the top 200 and gets confused with #1 Isabella. Schuyler I don't hear as much on boys so it has not been an issue if it is indeed w/in the top 200 I have not noticed.
Maybe I am feeding it, but I don't want to have a huge regret down the road that I didn't explore harder b/c I chalked it up to hormones.Then it will be too late. I will take your advice to heart though-i know this is how my husband feels-she's named, it's over.
I also agree that Persephone will definitely get mangled, and truncated, which was why I decided not to go down that road, we were certain it would get shortened. I want to clarify to you that I regret Isabel largely b/c it IS in the top 200 and gets confused with #1 Isabella. Schuyler I don't hear as much on boys so it has not been an issue if it is indeed w/in the top 200 I have not noticed.
Maybe I am feeding it, but I don't want to have a huge regret down the road that I didn't explore harder b/c I chalked it up to hormones.Then it will be too late. I will take your advice to heart though-i know this is how my husband feels-she's named, it's over.
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I'm just wondering if it seems southern/countryish, because you live in the South? Because I think pretty much any name said in a thick Southern accent sounds southern. If not, maybe it's just because there are a lot of southern names that use Leigh or Lee in the female form, sometimes just as a pet name.
I think Rosalie will sound different in different accents, in different places. If you say it the way you want it to be said, and keep reiterating that point then those that are close to her will say it the way you do.
However if you really don't love the name, good luck in your quest. :)
I think Rosalie will sound different in different accents, in different places. If you say it the way you want it to be said, and keep reiterating that point then those that are close to her will say it the way you do.
However if you really don't love the name, good luck in your quest. :)
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I don't live in the south but am from VA-so yes, the -lee thing does have a southern feel to it for me. I am living in MA now, and I/no one around me has a southern accent, but my MIL (in Va) was the first, of course, to call her Rosa Lee. You can imagine how long it took her to get Saoirse right!!!!!
I don't know that I love the name anymore-but my mother suggested calling her by both names. All the names I have suggested to my Dh that end in A he has vetoed-so I do feel rather stuck with it in that I suggested it and agreed to it and now he won't entertain changing it to anything but Violet. so I DO need to decide if I'd rather call her Violet, or try to call her Rosalie Violet, or just call her Rosalie.
Fwiw, I've gotten numerous compliments on her name, which may help me get though this rough patch and remember eventually why I thought it was an option!
I don't know that I love the name anymore-but my mother suggested calling her by both names. All the names I have suggested to my Dh that end in A he has vetoed-so I do feel rather stuck with it in that I suggested it and agreed to it and now he won't entertain changing it to anything but Violet. so I DO need to decide if I'd rather call her Violet, or try to call her Rosalie Violet, or just call her Rosalie.
Fwiw, I've gotten numerous compliments on her name, which may help me get though this rough patch and remember eventually why I thought it was an option!
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Seriously, if you are sure it isn't the right name for her change it. It's not going to hurt anyone as your husband has agreed that it might be a good idea to change it. She's too young to even notice. I wouldn't take it lightly or anything and make sure the name feels right this time, but if you are really not happy with Rosalie it's better to change it now than to regret it for the rest of your life!
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Hi lily, well he's agreed to talk about it, as of last night, but only with a time limit and i know he'll get annoyed quickly. He is only entertaining this topic b/c he knows I am terribly unsettled. I actually really liked the name Rosalie fine until I heard his mother butcher it, and then another, and another person over these weeks, and it got me to associating it with a mis-emphasis/tackiness. But I do agree with mirfak and roxstar that I MUST have liked it enough to name her that originally, KWIM? I also aree with you that I should not just dismiss the possibility of a name I like better if this is getting under my skin-the challenge will be finding something we both like which has been all but impossible. I just wish he would have given a little on ALL my other names. Thalia was the only other one he was kind of OK with and we both weren't in LOVE with it.
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