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Catherine or Katherine

88 replies

OooShiney · 25/02/2013 16:14

DD has always been insistent that my bump in fact contains a kitty cat and not DC2, we haven't found out the sex but if it's a girl we've thought about C/Katherine with the nickname Kitty.

DD is Beatrice.

But don't know if we should put Catherine or Katherine on the BC... What d'ya think?

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ErikNorseman · 25/02/2013 20:53

Katherine :) the 'ar' spelling is much less common and when you have a name with so many variants it's easier to go with the more common one. Never ever Kathryn. Vom.

QueenOfCats · 25/02/2013 20:45

Prettier spelled with a K Smile

CBuzz · 25/02/2013 20:45

With a C - its the only way!

LRDtheFeministDragon · 25/02/2013 20:44

I bet she's going to cop out and tell us it's via Old Saxon or summat, getorf. Hmm

GetOrf · 25/02/2013 20:40

Lol at chagrin.

But like LrD says we are all to cock re katharos anyway.

Unless horatia is wrong and she is just tricking us...

LRDtheFeministDragon · 25/02/2013 20:34

Oops, sorry chaos. Blush

But turns out we're wrong anyway, so feel free to come back and call us pig-ignorant plebs, won't you? Wink

LRDtheFeministDragon · 25/02/2013 20:33

horatia - fair enough, I stand corrected. What do they come from?

ChaosTrulyReigns · 25/02/2013 20:32

Love Catherine and came to say it's traditional, innit.

But I see Get and LRD have friffing spoiled that for me. Feckers.

[chagrin]

FatJasper · 25/02/2013 20:28

I prefer Catherine.

Still18atheart · 25/02/2013 20:27

Catherine imo

Geranium3 · 25/02/2013 20:21

love catherine.........
but hate katherine!
No idea why!

StrawberryMojito · 25/02/2013 20:20

Katherine.

Catherine just seems more plain.

amck5700 · 25/02/2013 20:18

I, in general tend to prefer the C, however not in this case for some reason, the K is definitely nicer.

amck5700 · 25/02/2013 20:17

The K thing I believe is where a name that normally begins with a C is replaced with a K instead i.e. Kaleb, Konner etc and not that all names beginning with a K are plebby/chavvy/schemey.

Katharine is a perfectly (lovely) legitimate name that happens to begin with a K, not the same thing at all....and not that it actually matters anyway.

HoratiaWinwood · 25/02/2013 20:17

Catherine and Katharine are probably not derived from katharos anyway.

If we are going to be etymology pendants! Grin

gymboywalton · 25/02/2013 20:09

definitely catherine

GetOrf · 25/02/2013 20:09

There was a thread (or two) some time ago where people said that names beginning with K were chavvy.

Madness. I don't agree, obv.

It's mumsnet though, isn't it Grin

nickelbabe · 25/02/2013 20:08

definitely Katherine.
my best friend is Katherine and it's dd's middle name.

plus all of the nicknames make more sense with a K

LRDtheFeministDragon · 25/02/2013 20:04

WTF? How is it pleb-y to name a baby Katharine? Confused

If you want to be poncey about it, Katharine is surely more correct as it's from the Greek for 'pure' and the Greek letter kappa gives us our 'k', not our 'c'.

(I owe this piece of pedantry to my mother, btw, it's not original because I'm not quite that barking mad.)

GetOrf · 25/02/2013 19:55

You have to be careful though. It's an oft-repeated Mumsnet baby names rule that only plebs names their children with names beginning with K.

(I am a prole with a K name Grin)

noddyholder · 25/02/2013 19:55

Yes katharine one of my faves

GetOrf · 25/02/2013 19:53

Katharine. It is the original spelling (from the greek katharos meaning pure, to be a pedantic twat about it Grin).

Also the late great Katharine Hepburn spelled it so.

And it is my dd's middle name.

So completely unbiased of course Wink

To me Kathryn is a very 70s variant, like Jayne, Carole or Karyn.

HoratiaWinwood · 25/02/2013 19:49

I prefer Catherine and think the nickname initials are a red herring. You don't spell William with a B, nor Margaret with a P.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 25/02/2013 19:48

I prefer with a K, but both are beautiful names and go really nicely with Beatrice.

Spoonful · 25/02/2013 19:48

I like it with a C.

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