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Marianne

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daisydoo85 · 11/10/2013 19:09

Thoughts on this name?
Also like Florence.
Thanks.

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NadiaWadia · 14/10/2013 15:29

KeatsiePie you 'never before even thought of them as variations on the same name!'

That's because in your heart you know Marianne is pronounced 'marry-ann', like in Europe! Wink

KeatsiePie · 14/10/2013 05:46

Double names are not that popular here (although there may be a new trend in baby-naming that I don't know of) and double names are usually run together out loud, as if they were one name. Like Leann and Leigh Anne sound exactly the same, no pause. Even something uber-Southern like Brenda Lee or Gracie Mae (The Closer, Friday Night Lights) is basically said as if one name, maybe a tiny pause if you are emphasizing the name b/c you are angry or trying to get their attention.

I am now wandering around with the laundry mumbling "Mary Ann, Marianne" to myself. Need to go to bed.

KeatsiePie · 14/10/2013 05:32

Yep Nadia, at least, as far as I've heard. But I have never before even thought of them as variations on the same name! I think that's b/c Mary Ann (with no "e") is usually seen as a classic suburban-American name, very 1950s sitcom television, etc., while Marianne I think would be considered either British or colonial era. (Massive generalizations here obviously.) They would both sound old-fashioned here but in different ways, as separate names.

NadiaWadia · 14/10/2013 02:42

KeatsiePie so basically 'in American' Mary Anne and Marianne are the same, just spelt differently?

nooka · 13/10/2013 21:55

According to beyond the name it's a form of the French name Marie, which to English ears sounds pretty similar to marry (as in getting married). I don't think that the slight variations in how people might pronounce it are a big deal though, not enough to get irritated by anyway (for potential future Mariannes that is).

KeatsiePie · 13/10/2013 19:21

One of the songs is called 'Marianne' and when I hear it I always wonder why they are singing 'Mary Anne' and not 'Marianne'. Ha! Nadia that would sound just right to me!

ginzillas · 13/10/2013 13:04

Funny, Moominlike....Moomin is actually one of DD's many nicknames!

EhricLovesTeamQhuay · 13/10/2013 12:04

Love it. Marianne dashwood

moominlike · 13/10/2013 11:49

Oops, smiley fail.

moominlike · 13/10/2013 11:47

I absolutely love the name Marianna, although I am undoubtedly biased grin

ginzillas · 13/10/2013 11:41

When I checked the stats, there were only 37 other baby Mariannes the year DD was born. We have met a toddler Marianna though.

ginzillas · 13/10/2013 11:40

I would love to meet another one!

hollyisalovelyname · 13/10/2013 10:54

I love Marielle.

MadameJosephine · 13/10/2013 10:43

Gorgeous! I don't think I've ever met a Marianne in RL

ginzillas · 13/10/2013 10:38

I have a little Marianne and she's GORGEOUS!!

NadiaWadia · 13/10/2013 03:30

KeatsiePie - It's funny you should mention that because I have a CD of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. One of the songs is called 'Marianne' and when I hear it I always wonder why they are singing 'Mary Anne' and not 'Marianne'.

Marianne is a French name originally (I think) and I'm sure the 'marry-anne' pronunciation is closer to how they'd say it in French. Or would you say you were going to church to get mary -ed?

KeatsiePie · 12/10/2013 23:45

lottie I'm trying to remember now! I say Maid Mareyunn in my head when I think of Robin Hood. Hmm. I remember the one with Christian Slater vaguely but did they really not say Mareyunn?

lottiegarbanzo · 12/10/2013 22:27

KeatsiePie, have you never seen a film of Robin Hood? Shock Maid Mah-ri-un. Mair-ee is a totally different sound, 'air' rather than the 'ah' of Marian or Marianne. Anyway...

lottiegarbanzo · 12/10/2013 22:17

Like it a lot.

Lots of references. The French revolutionary symbol, with statue in every village still (many modelled on Brigitte Bardot) is one. Another glam sixties reference being Marianne Faithful (who is really clever and interesting). She's probably to most prominent living Marianne I can think of.

So much nicer than Marion (a la Robin Hood, or just rather suburbanly dull) and Mary-Ann (us that really used much?)

KeatsiePie · 12/10/2013 21:47

Oh that's funny! It sounds like it is partly maybe an issue of how long one stops between Mary/Mari and Ann/Anne.

Never thought of Marian as a Mah sound.

Alexandrite · 12/10/2013 21:39

For me Marian = Mah rian

Alexandrite · 12/10/2013 21:37

Yes it's probably an accent thing. With my accent (South London) the difference is Mary Anne = Mairee Anne
Marianne = Marryanne.

But they may both be pronouced the same with an American accent.

In fact I have a vague memory of my mum telling me as a child that Americans pronounce Marianne as Mary Anne!

KeatsiePie · 12/10/2013 20:59

Whereas Marian has the accent over the Mare part and the an part is almost like an un sound.

KeatsiePie · 12/10/2013 20:58

I can't hear the difference between Mary Ann and Marianne but maybe b/c I am hearing them in an American accent. But I do like Marianne a lot.

Alexandrite · 12/10/2013 20:04

Really like it.

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