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Pronunciation help please!

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Didanyoneordermeaplaincheese · 14/04/2014 11:24

How would you pronounce Recs?

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HauntedNoddyCar · 15/04/2014 21:58

Well that's a whole lifetime of confusion bestowed in 4 letters. Quite an achievement.

fideline · 15/04/2014 14:31

It's certainly imaginative...

Choccyhobnob · 15/04/2014 14:10

Oh dear OP!

Morgause · 15/04/2014 13:34

Your friend is deluded, OP.

Bowlersarm · 14/04/2014 22:03

Well I wasn't expecting that OP. Feminine Reece would be Reese as in Witherspoon I would have thought. Recs - just awful.

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Didanyoneordermeaplaincheese · 14/04/2014 21:55

It's a feminine form of Reece according to a friend....yes, I'm confused too!

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fideline · 14/04/2014 19:17

Well tell us what it's about . Please.

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Didanyoneordermeaplaincheese · 14/04/2014 19:06

Thanks all- helpful indeed.....and also a little entertaining!

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guineapig1 · 14/04/2014 18:58

Haunted, I think even in here in deepest darkest wales it is a definite no!

KnickyKnacky · 14/04/2014 18:52

Rex is fine. Reece is fine.

Recs just looks stupid and like you can't spell.

HauntedNoddyCar · 14/04/2014 16:01

Unless you live in deepest darkest Wales then it's going to look like an affectation.

FrankUnderwood · 14/04/2014 15:55

Abbreviations for renewable energy certificates, recommendations, reclamation yards or recreation grounds. All Rex sounding.

rinabean · 14/04/2014 15:49

If not Rex then Retch (hungarian cs). No idea if that's a hungarian name, but Retch isn't a very nice name for a child in an english speaking country...

MrsBungle · 14/04/2014 15:45

Recs just seems a misspelling of Rex to me.

Yangsun · 14/04/2014 15:43

Perhaps Wretch? Not what I would read at first glance but probably my second guess if it's not Rex, nor a great name for a child though!!

NigellasDealer · 14/04/2014 15:43

it would only work in country with a language that has no X - so that would be Wales or Poland AFAIK, correct me if I am wrong!

Leggingsandtrainersnonono · 14/04/2014 15:42

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ouryve · 14/04/2014 15:33

If you're having to ask for your own child, then everyone else who encounters the child is going to have the same difficulty, so just don't.

bouncingbelle · 14/04/2014 15:30

Rex

Or, at a push, reh-see-s?

NigellasDealer · 14/04/2014 15:25

Recs? is he a cousin of Dai Brainbocs?

Morgause · 14/04/2014 15:24

For god's sake don't give your child a spelling mistake for a name - he will be teased.

UriGeller · 14/04/2014 15:23

If it IS another way to spell 'Rex' you could really let yourself go and spell it
'WRh'ekkkz'.

florascotia · 14/04/2014 12:27

However you pronounce it, in English, its in the plural form. One Rec, two Recs, three Recs... etc. I'm not sure why anyone would want to give a single child a plural name.

Also, the term RECS is in very common use in the energy industry and among environmental businesses/campaigns. It stands for for Renewable Egergy Certificates. There is even an interntional RECS organisation www.recs.org/.With energy price concerns/global warming worries/environmental education etc, a child with that name might feel a little strange.

Beanymonster · 14/04/2014 12:19

I'd have thought there was a typo for Rex, tbh.

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 14/04/2014 12:16

Recs isnt a real name, surely? id think you had mis spelled Rex.

Rex, btw, is a marvellous name.