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Gia, Giada, and Gianna
WDYTO these names? Obviously not as sisters, but individually. BTW, Giada and Gianna are pronounced JAH-duh, and JAH-nuh, in the Italian way.
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Gia is too nicknamey for me, as is Gianna. Giovanna would be better, but I find all three of those to sound very unattractive.Giada is pretty, but I'd either spell it Jada or put it in the middle to avoid rampant pronunciation problems.
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Gia: I don't care for it. It makes me think of a fashion label, for some reason I can't think of. Brand-namey, I guess, or the kind of name a model might adopt. Not my style.Giada and Gianna are nice. Giada sounds big and bold like Scarlett; Gianna sounds warm and friendly.
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I like all of them, and thank you for pronouncing them correctly. ;-)
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I like Gianna for middle name, but I don't care for the other two.
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Giada's on my favorites list. I love it, and Jade. And while I'm not a huge Gianna fan, I so appreciate that you're pronouncing it correctly, as opposed to jee-AW-nuh.
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how do you pronounce Gia?I like Giada. Gianna doesn't really appeal to me.
My absolute favourite Italian girls name is Gioia though (at least right now).
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JEE-ah.
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I adore them all, especially Giada. It's so beautiful and spunky.
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I don't care for them. I live in an area that had a lot of Italian immigrants settle there in the early 1900s, and now a lot of little girls are being named this sort of thing, and it just seems very, very false to me. In a way, it's the trendy thing to do around here. You never see Allegra or Ottavia or Beatrice (Bay-uh-tree-chay), you get the American-watered-down-Italian Gianna because "ohmigosh", it's Italian, didn't you know? They are nice enough names, but for me, they just carry a negative association.+ to borrow a sign off style from Array . . .-- Adelle (who is proudly the daughter of said Italian immigrants but would much rather use Allegra, Octavia, or Beatrice) :)

This message was edited 2/24/2007, 8:32 AM

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Thank you for the honest and well-put opinion. I would not use Gianna or Giada to sound Italian, especially since I don't have one drop of Italian blood in me. How is Ottavia pronounced? AH-tay-vee-uh? OH-tay-vee-uh?
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Oh, I didn't mean you'd be doing so, just that the people around here who do so have soured my opinion of it for the rest of us. Sorry! I prn it AH.

This message was edited 2/24/2007, 11:59 AM

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Don't worry, I didn't think you meant that, I was just clearing that up.
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I like Gia and Gianna. Giada doesn't appeal to me, though I have no good reason why.
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Opps, meant to be in reponse to original postEven though its kind of short, I am really liking Gia lately. I dont like the other two at all

This message was edited 2/24/2007, 8:02 AM

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