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Opinions on the name Alaska?

83 replies

traine · 23/09/2018 17:13

Alaska for a girl?

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MrsFezziwig · 26/09/2018 09:56

Eleska and Eliska sound like the answers you would get if you asked an Australian “what is the 49th state of the USA”?

Flyingpigs247 · 26/09/2018 09:49

Eliska could be an alternative. I read a book with a character called this and quite liked the sound of it.

Skyejuly · 26/09/2018 09:47

No.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 26/09/2018 09:40

What's the Hmm for Chardonnay?

NonaGrey · 26/09/2018 09:32

Have you actually ever been to Alaska OP?

Poulnabron · 26/09/2018 09:30

I know a toddler Antarctica. She's known as 'An' to everyone. Yours will be Al by the time she's a month old.

GinIsIn · 26/09/2018 09:30

unless it's for a husky or a drag performer, no.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 26/09/2018 09:28

Terrible. In the same camp as Chardonnay and Mercedes.

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Thesuzle · 26/09/2018 09:27

Surname baked by any chance ?

PiperPublickOccurrences · 26/09/2018 09:15

State of Georgia was named after King George II.

Totally different thing.

scottboy · 26/09/2018 09:06

@PiperPublickOccurrences as is Georgia! 😊

PiperPublickOccurrences · 26/09/2018 09:04

It's not a name. It's an American state.

HeronLanyon · 26/09/2018 06:49

Why not Nebraska nn Alaska. ? Seriously it leaves me cold - kind of a steppe too far for a name. A bit way out there ? Think your dc will spend life with people asking what her connection to the state is which could become tiresome for her ? Saskia ? Alana ?

DeusEx · 26/09/2018 06:41

Alaska Thunderfuck

LydiaLunch7 · 26/09/2018 00:22

To me it's no more a name than Ohio, California or Vermont.

AnnieAnoniMouse · 25/09/2018 23:58

No worse than Brooklyn, Paris, Asia etc

...but no better either.

Just ‘why’?

Apparently the people who come to MN to shit stir use the baby naming boats to cut their teeth and to get their number of posts up. It’s always hard to know when an op is serious and when it’s one of them. If even half the op’s are serious, I’d hate to be calling the class register in a few years time.

Aintnothingbutaheartache · 25/09/2018 23:57

Either you’re asking for a wind up in which case well done.
Or you really think it’s a nice name in which case don’t ask if you don’t want a negative opinion

AdamHi · 25/09/2018 23:52

Nice name, If it has a meaning to you, all great, if it is a fashion statement, maybe worth a re-thin.

SnipSnipMisterBurgess · 25/09/2018 23:51

In a Dublin accent, I’d say:
‘Alaska, the state of ye!’

Or in a non-rhotic accent it might be ‘yer’

Sungura · 25/09/2018 23:45

It's a bad idea. Try again.

RoseAndRose · 25/09/2018 22:27

Paris the city has a totally different etymology from Paris the name (Prince of Troy, a real name originating in the Greek myths)

MrsEricBana · 25/09/2018 22:23

I don't hate it (surprisingly).

TuathaDeDanann · 25/09/2018 22:23

Yeh, agreeing with the others sorry, it doesn't work. Baked Alaska came in to my head too quickly. Then Fargo-esque visions of trudging along in snow blizzards

badg3r · 25/09/2018 22:20

I know an Alaska, I think it is lovely. No different to other place name names, Florence, India, France, etc etc

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 24/09/2018 13:23

How about Eleska instead ?

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