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Milena or Alys/Alice

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TheCaptainsCat · 12/10/2016 19:30

Which one do you prefer and why?

Which ones do you not like and why?

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Pluto30 · 14/10/2016 00:03

Or even Magdalena?

Pluto30 · 14/10/2016 00:03

I quite like Daria. Not something you hear everyday, but familiar to people. Also, the cartoon was great.

Otherwise, how about Marlene or Marlena? I'm thinking Marlene Dietrich. Very similar to Milena...

ClaudiaJean2016 · 13/10/2016 23:57

I like Alys.

FeralBeryl · 13/10/2016 23:50

Love Alys - but be prepared for people to misspell it all the time Angry
Can't ever like Milena after you've smelt or been repeatedly covered in malaena.
I met a Milena once and the whole time she was talking, I was just reliving the smell. Sorry, its just that anyone remotely medical she meets will feel similarly.

WhatWouldTheDoctorDo · 13/10/2016 23:34

I love Alys. It's like a cooler version of Alice to me.

MrsSchadenfreude · 13/10/2016 23:32

Daria, I love, but doesn't work in English as it sounds too much like "diarrhoea."

How do you pronounce "Alys"? Just like "Alice"? I used to work with one, and she pronounced it "Ay-liss." (With stress on first syllable.)

Zhabr · 13/10/2016 18:58

What about Melania?

WaitrosePigeon · 13/10/2016 18:53

Alice is lovely!

joanne90 · 13/10/2016 18:05

None sorry!
Alternatives?

LizzieMacQueen · 13/10/2016 18:01

Our Polish nanny was called Dana, I like that.

Alice, Alice, who the f* is Alice. (nice name but ruined for me by those lyrics)

JasperDamerel · 13/10/2016 17:59

Daria is lovely. My autocorrect wanted to change it to 'saris' and 'Adrian', though.

SorenaJ · 13/10/2016 17:55

Love Alice

badtime · 13/10/2016 12:54

Daria is great, and reminds me of the cool, sarky 90s cartoon.

However, before she got her own show, she was a character in 'Beavis & Butthead' and they called her 'diarrhoea'.

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 13/10/2016 12:35

Do you like Dannika ?

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TheCaptainsCat · 13/10/2016 12:28

Looks like Alice it is then! I'm glad I asked here, I had never heard of the medical condition until now. Or maybe I could pick another Polish name to appease DH - what do you all think of Daria? Wink

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Sophronia · 13/10/2016 12:11

Alys is lovely

JustWantToBeDorisAgain · 12/10/2016 22:31

Nurse here and just thought uggghhh bloody poo.

( I am biased though I have a dd with Alys as a middle name )

cricketqueen · 12/10/2016 22:19

I have an Alys so obviously I love that name. I have found that a lot of my family struggle with the spelling ( i am english but we live in wales). I think milena could be a lovely name if people get it right but it might get lost in translation a bit as it were.

Girliefriendlikesflowers · 12/10/2016 22:14

I'm a nurse and Melina sounds like poo with blood in it - sorry.

Alice or even Alicia (pronounced A-liss-c-a) is lovely with no poo associations Grin

HoratioNightboy · 12/10/2016 22:10

I have a lovely Polish friend Milena, and have never heard of Mirena or malaena (I don't lead a sheltered life, honest), so never made that association. However I'm not that wild on the name, so I'd pick Alys as I like Welsh names.

Crunchymum · 12/10/2016 21:31

I know a Melina... unusual but not too wild?

peponi · 12/10/2016 20:15

Sorry phone typos!
not milena
the medical term

peponi · 12/10/2016 20:14

No milena as it is pronounced the same as melaena the mesdix am term for poo that is mixed with altered digested blood. It really stinks and makes me heave just thinking about it. Sorry.

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