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Ada...

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ScarlettOverkill · 05/05/2016 20:33

What do you think?

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allegretto · 08/05/2016 14:47

I know an Ida pronounced ee-da but she's Italian.

Zhabr · 07/05/2016 18:38

Discordia, we've got the similar taste in books!

ArcheryAnnie · 07/05/2016 13:07

It's lovely!

And most of the google results will be good - Lovelace, plus the programming language (named after Lovelace) and so on.

DiscordiaVanDiemen · 07/05/2016 12:38

*Zhabr" I love that book!

Zhabr · 07/05/2016 08:13

My association will be Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov, but it's just me🙂 In Russian it is Ada or Erotiada.

Alisvolatpropiis · 07/05/2016 00:04

Isidora, surely?

Isidore is a masculine name.

happygoproperty · 06/05/2016 23:56

..
More common than you'd think
Ida Ada Ava Eva avie allie edie are ten a penny teens names ..

Then the newer teens names orla Isla eilidh aaila etc

Isidore is more interesting ?

NadiaWadia · 06/05/2016 18:48

It's pronounced Ay-da, september. To rhyme with raider.

septembersunshine · 06/05/2016 18:14

I think it's a letter short of Ada...m!

And worse I think of the snake... the adder snake (obviously the spelling is different but it sounds the same). Unless the name is pronounced differently then I think... but there we are. I'm not loving it.

butteredmuffin · 06/05/2016 16:02

The two Idas I know are both Ee-da. Eye-da reminds me having to sit through a terrible am dram performance of Princess Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan so maybe that's why I don't like it so much!

DiscordiaVanDiemen · 06/05/2016 15:51

If you didn't pronounce Ida "Eye-da", then the song "Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider" wouldn't rhyme! I've never heard anyone pronounce it "Ee-da"
Ida is a gorgeous name...

AvengingGerbil · 06/05/2016 09:34

I'm sorry, but "bleedin' Ada" is a term of disbelief where (and when) I come from.

Alisvolatpropiis · 06/05/2016 09:25

I like it. I know of two who would be pre-school sort of age. Not from the same areas.

BendydickCuminsnatch · 06/05/2016 08:52

Our chosen girl's name (Adelaide for long). Loosely after Ada Lovelace!!

butteredmuffin · 06/05/2016 07:58

You can pronounce Ida either way but I don't think "eye-da" is very elegant!

NoncommittalToSparkleMotion · 06/05/2016 04:37

Love it.

NadiaWadia · 06/05/2016 04:08

Littleround - I was sure that Ida was pronounced 'eye-da' too! At least in the UK, anyway.

unicornthong · 06/05/2016 01:08

LOVE LOVE LOVE!

MadameDePompom · 06/05/2016 00:43

It's very frumpy. Like Beryl and Doris.

amysmummy12345 · 06/05/2016 00:30

DD1 was going to be Ada May after my dh granny, tempted to go with it for dd2

mrsschu · 06/05/2016 00:26

Hmmm it's ok, don't love it. Know a couple of them under 1.

Littleroundtable · 06/05/2016 00:02

How would you spell the name that's pronounced eye-da?

Littleroundtable · 06/05/2016 00:01

I thought Ida was pronounced Eye-da

I like Ada

Better than Ava

FlowerOfTheWest · 05/05/2016 23:49

Love it! I only know of one wee Ada.

Sophronia · 05/05/2016 23:46

I like it, it's a nice alternative to Ada. Also like Adah which is a Biblical name.