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Remedios

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tspika · 06/02/2016 23:25

Remedios for a daughter's first name – any thoughts?

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PeaceLoveAndMincePies · 06/02/2016 23:26

It sounds like a Harry Potter spell to me Confused

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BikeRunSki · 06/02/2016 23:28

Sounds like medicine!

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FriendofBill · 06/02/2016 23:29

One hundred years of solitude

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SoupDragon · 06/02/2016 23:30

Just no.

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Tuiles · 06/02/2016 23:31

Gabriel García Márquez

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LordTrash · 06/02/2016 23:32

For indigestion tablets, yes. For a child, no.

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DramaAlpaca · 06/02/2016 23:32

I suppose it might be OK if you live in a Spanish speaking country, but it's not one of the nicer Spanish names to an English speaking ear.

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SweetieDrops · 06/02/2016 23:33

Not keen sorry.

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IoraRua · 06/02/2016 23:50

Harry Potter spell immediately came to mind too. Not good, sorry.

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tsipka · 06/02/2016 23:54

Thanks, all!

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FlatOnTheHill · 07/02/2016 00:18

Sounds like remedial. Back in the 1970s when some poor kids were put in the remedial class Confused

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MadameDepompom · 07/02/2016 00:20

Something you'd take for heartburn when on hols in Majorca.

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Georgia3Rom · 07/02/2016 00:40

I thought it was Remedy at first, sorry but it's a no from me, it just doesn't sound like a name

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JassyRadlett · 07/02/2016 00:42

I am reassured that I'm not the only one who thought wand-waving.

Sorry, OP, I don't think it works in an Anglophone context.

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Out2pasture · 07/02/2016 00:45

Portuguese last name.

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Kamalena · 07/02/2016 00:54

Sorry medicine or Spanish surname like Hose Remedios xxx

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Mclaren37 · 07/02/2016 12:04

Agree with all the above. 100 Yrs of Solitude (irritating character, like all of his women), a surname, indigestion tablets and the word remedial. There are no good connotations there at all. So no.

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stickygotstuck · 07/02/2016 12:26

TBH, not the best sounding Spanish name to Spanish-speaking ears either. And it does mean 'remedies'. V old-fashioned too but that's by the by.

It doesn't help that the 3 I know are horrible people!

Sorry, OP!

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StitchesInTime · 07/02/2016 12:28

It sounds like a word for medicine.

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tsipka · 07/02/2016 12:28

Thank you, everyone! (None of the concerns you've raised are at all bothersome; it works brilliantly for us.)

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RortyCrankle · 07/02/2016 14:43

It's really ugly, poor child. Not that you probably care as long as its 'yoonique'.

I'm curious why the OP changed her name from tspika to tsipka mid thread.

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Meeep · 07/02/2016 15:28

Don't like it.
Made me think of remedial.
Also is ugly sounding.

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tsipka · 07/02/2016 16:24

RortyCrankle – I definitely don't want anything "yoonique"; I'm not sure where you got that impression. I'm actually only considering names that are very traditional and well established, despite the fact that my friends will almost certainly think us terribly boring.

Regarding screen names, the site had assigned me a username with a number originally, and I decided to get rid of that number the other day. Right after that, I posted this thread…and then immediately noticed the typo I'd just introduced. Sorry; not particularly intriguing.

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pinkcan · 07/02/2016 16:27

Remedial. Help.

Just don't.

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CremeEggThief · 07/02/2016 16:28

Horrid.

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