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Alouette?

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ReadySaltedandOJ · 09/04/2016 10:40

What are your thoughts on Alouette? It's a French name and means 'lark', which I think is lovely. Every time I say it out loud however, the song 'alouette, gentille alouette' pops into my head!
I'd love some opinions!
Also, what do you think the best nn would be?

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Ememem84 · 11/04/2016 18:51

footle "savez vous planter les choux? A la mode a la mode! Saves vous planter les choux? A le mode de mes genous!"

Love that song.

Also "cou cou hibou"

Footle · 11/04/2016 16:41

Try 'Savez vous planter les choux?' , then you'll have a French ear worm for each ear.

DramaAlpaca · 11/04/2016 10:25

Me too dizzytomato, it's been driving me mad all weekend Grin

dizzytomato · 11/04/2016 09:30

donajimena I've been singing this song with my god awful French since I posted on this thread. I can't stop, anyone else? We have a Fisher Price cd with it on, which my three year old loves, but that may not last if I don't stop soon!

Footle · 11/04/2016 07:52

Oops my last comment was for clearsomme.

donajimena · 11/04/2016 07:29

Ive got the 'plumerai' bit of the song going around my head now. Its a no from me.

Footle · 11/04/2016 07:25

Voilà !

Raines100 · 11/04/2016 07:22

je te plumerai

clearsommespace · 11/04/2016 06:51

'Colombe' is the bird which brought Noé the olive branch

GerundTheBehemoth · 10/04/2016 12:12

I think a colombe must be a domestic white pigeon. It's not in this very long list of wild birds recorded in France. There are six kinds of alouette there though!

GerundTheBehemoth · 10/04/2016 11:40

Tourterelle des bois is turtle dove. Tourterelle turque is collared dove. Tourterelle maillée is laughing dove.

wallywobbles · 10/04/2016 10:02

I have s nursery rhyme name. Bloody nightmare as a kid.

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Chottie · 10/04/2016 06:44

Please no. Your DD would have 'that' song sung at her ad nauseam

clearsommespace · 10/04/2016 05:33

Agree with other posters, it is most definitely not a name in France.

I have met an English 'Colombe'. She is probably in her 40s now.

Qwebec · 10/04/2016 05:26

Here, francophone land, in if someone does something wrong/stupid it's used like an exclamation of frustration.
How about Annette or Louisette?

paxillin · 10/04/2016 03:46

It's a company making car wheel rims. Also a card game.

MitzyLeFrouf · 10/04/2016 03:26

It's a pretty mean song isn't it? About plucking the feathers from a bird's head.

dizzytomato · 10/04/2016 01:18

Well, yes actually, there have been a fair few over the years

Well I guess it takes all sorts.

Registrar general - "Why do you want to call your baby Lark?"
Mother -"I just thought it would be a bit of a lark"
Father - "I'm only going along with it for a lark"
Grin

Tinydancer85 · 09/04/2016 23:35

I am French and I can assure you that Alouette is NOT used as a name (for humans anyway), so I wouldn't recommend it!Confused

VimFuego101 · 09/04/2016 23:11

In the US you can buy Alouette cheese. If you call your child Alouette I can send you some if you like? Smile

Alouette?
JakeyB · 09/04/2016 23:05

Yes pretty sure you're right OP, it is lark, which to be fair you wouldn't call a child in English, would you?

Well, yes actually, there have been a fair few over the years, along with other bird names like Linnet and Wren. And Mavis. You don't have to be Spanish to name your child Paloma, or French to name her Merle. So the OP is fine to choose Alouette which I think sounds really pretty.

People will only associate it with the song if they have heard of the song, so I doubt you have anything to worry about with your daughter's generation.

BiscuitMillionaire · 09/04/2016 22:47

I love the French name Beatrice (accent on the e). Pronounced bay-a-trees. Or Bea for short (bay-a).

oleoleoleole · 09/04/2016 22:42

L'Wren is French for Lauren. That's all I know!