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Dulcie-Mae

68 replies

FanaticalFox · 08/04/2017 18:15

Hit me with your opinions. Its already set but we may change if consensus is poor!!

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BrutusMcDogface · 08/04/2017 20:22

Oh and I agree with everyone who has said don't hyphenate it!

Misspilly88 · 08/04/2017 20:19

Dulcie is lovely. May is a nice middle name. Hyphenated Mae names are super common atm.

BrutusMcDogface · 08/04/2017 20:17

Dulcie is not a nice name imo.

Mae is lovely as a middle name; yes, every girl has it but every girl of my generation has Louise or Jane as a middle name.

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/04/2017 20:17

Why do people add -Mae, -Mai, May- to everything? Do people want to sound all y'all, down home Deep South? Or is it to cutesify everything? I don't get it.

Dulcie passes the 'could you run the Hadron Collider/collect rubbish' test that I feel names should be able to pass.

histinyhandsarefrozen · 08/04/2017 20:12

I like dulcie.

I'm with everyone on the mae bit. It's rife.

Aquamarine1029 · 08/04/2017 20:09

Dulcie is lovely and unique. Adding Mae to it makes it sound like some throw back American-Southern name, and it makes it sound flaky. Anything with -Mae attached is just bad.

RitzyMcFee · 08/04/2017 20:08

I'm a nursery teacher and I can barely say names now without adding 'May' on the end. It's so popular that it's become the norm.

DramaAlpaca · 08/04/2017 20:06

It's not my taste. At all.

bibbitybobbityyhat · 08/04/2017 20:04

Sorry, but I'm really not keen on this -May or -Mae thing for girls names just now.

Dulcie, hmm, I don't love it but it's better than Dulcie-Mae.

villainousbroodmare · 08/04/2017 19:59

Really not to my taste. Dulcie sounds like a stout tweedy gardening-type woman in her 60s who wears a lot of brown and a necklace outside her poloneck. She's very good at roses and has never been kissed. And the -Mae suffix is very twee.

EwanWhosearmy · 08/04/2017 19:10

I met an adult Dulcie recently. She was in her 20s. The bit of her name that stood out when she was introducing herself was Dull. (She had a Northern accent). Put me right off it.

scrivette · 08/04/2017 19:08

Dulcie is nice enough on its own. Dulcie-mai could be a baby nickname.

SingaSong12 · 08/04/2017 19:05

I have a hyphenated first name and it is a real pain. Lots of forms don't cater for it and as more things are done online it does mater.

Sorry I'm not keen on the name either.

passingthrough1 · 08/04/2017 18:58

The hyphen and the Mae bit cheapen the name. If you like the sound of them both just get rid of the hyphen and have Mae as a middle m.

mammmamia · 08/04/2017 18:52

I went to school with a Dulcie and never met another since so she's definitely likely to be the only one in her class if that sort of thing is important to you.
I am really not keen, Darcie is so much nicer. Sorry. And really dislike Mae.

IHaveBrilloHair · 08/04/2017 18:48

No, it's twee and silly.

Onlyaplasticbagdear · 08/04/2017 18:46

Ok without the hyphenate. Awful with "mae"

NataliaOsipova · 08/04/2017 18:45

Dulcie on its own is OK-ish. Not keen on the -Mae bit.

I agree! Use Mae as a middle name but I wouldn't hyphenate.

BounceBounceSplishSplash · 08/04/2017 18:42

Dulcie on its own is OK-ish. Not keen on the -Mae bit.

CactusFred · 08/04/2017 18:41

Ffs autocorrect Dulcimer is not a nice name lol

CactusFred · 08/04/2017 18:40

Dulcimer is nice - I had a great aunt with this name!

Mae is nice on its own but far too naff when tagged on as double barrelled- Lily-Mae, Ellie-May etc

relaxo · 08/04/2017 18:38

Agree with ditching the -Mae

Dulcie on its own is much better.

troodiedoo · 08/04/2017 18:38

It's a no from me sorry. Sounds like a fancy cheese.

BertrandRussell · 08/04/2017 18:35

And Dulcie means sweet. What sort of a name is that for a woman facing the world?

ApocalypseNowt · 08/04/2017 18:34

Sorry, not keen on either OP.