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Aurelie

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Edenember · 26/05/2020 17:05

I remember hearing this name when I was learning French and thinking I’ve found my favourite ever name... thought it was beautiful... then realised it’s pretty much orally in English so a no go. Has anyone else had the wind similarly knocked clean out of their sails by falling head over heels in love with a name only to have the crushing realisation it actually doesn’t work at all.

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Cosmos45 · 27/05/2020 20:13

@Edenember yes she pronounced the name the same, it was not the colleague who had messed up (i think he knew how to pronounce it perfectly) but her mother saw See Anne in Sian and named and pronounced the child in that way

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Edenember · 27/05/2020 19:41

I once was told by a nurse who works on a maternity ward, and I don’t know if this is just one of those urban legend type stories because it just doesn’t sound true... that they had an African lady in giving birth, she had a little girl and the nurse doing the rounds asked if she’d decided on a name... to which she replied the midwives named her and pointed to babies wristband... Female. She was pronouncing it Fe-mah-lee. I think that if your grasp of English was good enough to be chatting to the nurse, then that would be a word you’re familiar with, on top of other things like simply accepting someone else has named your baby... But yeah.

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Edenember · 27/05/2020 19:33

@Cosmos45 so she was pronouncing her own name like that as well if you were introduced to her? Rather than it being a mistake on your colleagues part?

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Cosmos45 · 27/05/2020 19:22

Not quite the same example but I was introduced to a colleague (well someone who was working for the client) called Seeanne. That may seem like a strange name but I know someone called Seeanne and that's how they pronounced. I emailed her and her email address was something like [email protected].. I started my email, "Hi Seeanne" and then she replied and signed off "Sian"..

LadyEloise · 27/05/2020 19:11

I love the name Aurelie. Edenember

Cattenberg · 27/05/2020 10:48

@Orphlids, my Grandma was from rural Devon and she actually had a friend called Penelope, pronounced Pea-nuh-loap.

BurntOrange · 27/05/2020 09:22

@Edenember Ha, we definitely don't live anywhere sophisticated! Most people who see it written down, doctors etc don't even attempt it and ask.

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Edenember · 26/05/2020 23:08

@BurntOrange very good. It is a very pretty name, I think you obviously move in more sophisticated circles than me... I think people where I live would defs pronounce the Au part as in English - aww, hence the problem.

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Edenember · 26/05/2020 22:56

@GinWithRosie I was today years old when I found that out too 😂

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BurntOrange · 26/05/2020 22:45

We have an Aurelie. No one has pronounced it "orally", the sound is O as in orange - O-re-lie. We've had no problems.

GinWithRosie · 26/05/2020 22:35

It makes sense @diddlediddle 😂 Blew my mind when I found out 🤯

diddlediddle · 26/05/2020 22:29

Thanks @GinWithRosie - until this very moment I thought that Calliope was Cally O Pee!

LilacSloth · 26/05/2020 21:53

I love the name Giselle but it was pointed out to me that Gis (Jiz) wouldn't be the nicest nickname!

GinWithRosie · 26/05/2020 21:07

Oh and my one...Calliope...I read this name in a book when I was about 12...in my head, as I was reading, the name was Cally O pee...emphasis on the 'O'...obviously 🤷‍♀️ I was 12! I thought this was THE most beautiful name ever 🥰

I never gave it another thought until Grey's Anatomy comes along 30 years later 😂 Bugger me! Call-I-opee...emphasis on the 'I' 😂. Still think it's a beautiful name 💓

MikeUniformMike · 26/05/2020 21:00

Aurelie is too close to Orally.
I know a story about the aforementioned Page 3 person. Wasn't highly thought of locally.

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Edenember · 26/05/2020 20:58

I knew someone that thought Caleb was pronounced Celeb and were actually going to use it 😂

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Edenember · 26/05/2020 20:56

@35andThriving that’s never occurred to me until you’ve just said it and I usually notice things like that... yeah me too now 😂 . I love that name but I’d definitely be vetoed anyway so no loss 😂

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Orphlids · 26/05/2020 20:56

Ha ha, yeah - not a sophisticated woman, dear old grandma!

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Edenember · 26/05/2020 20:54

@Orphlids I absolutely love that she loved it pronounced that way 😂

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35andThriving · 26/05/2020 20:50

I liked Jethro once but now all I hear is death row.

Orphlids · 26/05/2020 20:44

My grandmother was devastated to learn that her favourite name, Penelope, was not pronounced Penny-lope.

GinWithRosie · 26/05/2020 18:54

She’s now almost 40 and does actually now call herself Ann...she is a solicitor 😂 Within the family it is a fond joke...good job we have a sense of humour 🤷‍♀️😀

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Edenember · 26/05/2020 18:35

@GinWithRosie oh dearie dear 🤦‍♀️

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GinWithRosie · 26/05/2020 18:30

Years and years ago, my cousin was a HUGE fan of the page 3 model Sian Adey-Jones (we are not Welsh and this was in the late 70s so pre-internet so she always called her Si-ann). When she had her little girl she very proudly announced the name...Sian (Si-Ann...not Sh-arn ) Nobody in industrial 70s Manchester batted an eye of course and thought it very 'yoonique'. It was years later that we all realised that this poor child would spend a lifetime explaining that she was Si-ann spelt Sian! So yeah..Sian 🤷‍♀️

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Edenember · 26/05/2020 18:20

@Cattenberg haha. Sometimes it’s really helpful to have associations pointed out as others may think of something you haven’t... however it feels a bit of a mean thing to do if someone has really struggled to find a name they and their partner agree on, only to have it shot down in one fell swoop. You have to consider these things though, imagine someone pointing it out after the baby is named.

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