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my accent ruins all boys names please help me

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Marzipan23 · 01/06/2024 20:59

hello,
looking for boys names and have a strong yorkshire accent to contend with, I also really dislike pretty much all boys names, finding on the baby lists they are either nice but way too common for my liking or really out there!
quite like robin (but hate rob as a nickname) austin and dexter
please help me! also no comments on the names I do like please 😂 the list is small enough

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Marzipan23 · 03/06/2024 19:56

moonshinepoursthroughmywindow · 03/06/2024 18:37

Oddly enough I don't think any of those particular three names would sound different in a Yorkshire accent. I like Robin best of the three, I think.

yeah I think the three we have picked are okay! I just want a couple more back ups incase they come out and I decide I hate all the names!!
we liked Leo and Jake too but the yorkshire accent absolutely butchers them for me (leoooooooo, jaaaaaake 😂)

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moonshinepoursthroughmywindow · 03/06/2024 18:37

Oddly enough I don't think any of those particular three names would sound different in a Yorkshire accent. I like Robin best of the three, I think.

Snugglemonkey · 02/06/2024 19:51

Sue152 · 01/06/2024 21:06

I think Austin is a good one, trying to think what it might be shortened to - Ozzie perhaps? But probably fairly easy to avoid if you don't like that.

I know an Austin who is known as Tintin.

Mytholmroyd · 02/06/2024 18:24

I feel for you! I avoided any names with a long A like Mark and anything beginning with H and anything with an open U as in Hunter. That tends to remove most of the worst Yorkshireisms!

Thiswayorthatway · 02/06/2024 18:24

Felix

Justrolledmyeyesoutloud · 02/06/2024 18:21

sparkleowl · 01/06/2024 21:35

I don’t see how your accent ruins boys names? How about Arlo, it’s popular now and suits any age, also a real name going back over 1,000 years in Britain.

I always think of this name as the town in Essex but without the H (Harlow) and for that reason could never choose it!

crumpet · 02/06/2024 18:08

Matthew?

MoonKiss · 02/06/2024 18:05

sparkleowl · 01/06/2024 22:03

How about a name starting with Eee? 😁
so, no names starting and ending with a vowel.
That narrows it down a bit.

Eeebygum?

At least it’d get pronounced properly by the natives.

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Marzipan23 · 02/06/2024 10:44

thanks to all the northerners for helping explain how the accent can make some names veeery long (Arlo is a great name, but not out of my mouth!) I actually like my accent but some names just dont work as well!

some really great names on here that we didnt have on our list 😊

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FoleyHuck · 01/06/2024 22:16

sparkleowl · 01/06/2024 22:03

How about a name starting with Eee? 😁
so, no names starting and ending with a vowel.
That narrows it down a bit.

If only it were that simple.

Edward : Fine
Andrew : Fine
Arthur : Aaaarfer



It's the 'Ar' I struggle with, and then a tendency to drag out A's or O's within some words (We have an annual Boat Show in our area and I'm annually ribbed for the way I lengthen both words. See also 'Coke', 'No', and 'Toast').

sparkleowl · 01/06/2024 22:08

Tom
Darren
Ben
James
Sam
Nathan
Logan

sparkleowl · 01/06/2024 22:03

How about a name starting with Eee? 😁
so, no names starting and ending with a vowel.
That narrows it down a bit.

CountTo10 · 01/06/2024 22:01

Having said all that I actually wanted to call him Dexter but got veto'd. He always looks horrified that I had even considered Dexter.

CountTo10 · 01/06/2024 21:59

I have a 22 year old Robin and no one has ever called him 'Rob' ditto his father who's obviously a lot older. In fact at school bizarrely a Scottish teacher insisted on calling him 'Robbie' which I actually quite like but I assume she had misheard Robin at some point rather than a nickname.

sparkleowl · 01/06/2024 21:59

MoonKiss · 01/06/2024 21:47

Arlo is a great example of a name than can be ruined by a broad Yorkshire twang!

@FoleyHuck more like Aaar-lor where I am!

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Haha😂maybe not then eh?

sockoclock · 01/06/2024 21:58

Ethan
Soren

mnahmnah · 01/06/2024 21:53

Elliot
Sam

Edenmum2 · 01/06/2024 21:50

AhI love Austin and Dexter, both on my very short list too! Sorry I don't have many suggestions but I feel you. We considered Ziggy, River and Sonny...but may be a bit out there for you

MoonKiss · 01/06/2024 21:47

sparkleowl · 01/06/2024 21:35

I don’t see how your accent ruins boys names? How about Arlo, it’s popular now and suits any age, also a real name going back over 1,000 years in Britain.

Arlo is a great example of a name than can be ruined by a broad Yorkshire twang!

@FoleyHuck more like Aaar-lor where I am!

FoleyHuck · 01/06/2024 21:46

sparkleowl · 01/06/2024 21:35

I don’t see how your accent ruins boys names? How about Arlo, it’s popular now and suits any age, also a real name going back over 1,000 years in Britain.

In an accent renowned for dragging vowels, Arlo would come out as 'Aaar-low' for me - confirmed by my just asking DH to say it how he thinks I'd say it Blush

Never mind the widely Yorkshire habit of pre-fixing loved one's names with 'Our' or 'R'.

I can't imagine 'R' Aaar-low' is what the OP is going for Wink

MoonKiss · 01/06/2024 21:45

I also live in Yorkshire, I don’t have a strong accent but was careful to choose baby names that would sound pretty much the same in any accent. Ruled out loads based on how they sounded in broad Yorkshire.

sparkleowl · 01/06/2024 21:35

I don’t see how your accent ruins boys names? How about Arlo, it’s popular now and suits any age, also a real name going back over 1,000 years in Britain.

Thursdaygirl · 01/06/2024 21:34

As for my accent - be sensible, short of running elocution lessons for the entirity of Yorkshire

I didn’t think you were complaining about other people’s accents, just your own? Allegedly, my Brummie father joined the RAF sounding like Jasper Carrot, not a sustainable situation, and he now speaks ‘Queens English’, so it’s quite possible to soften an accent if it bothers you

katmarie · 01/06/2024 21:30

If you like Seb/Sebastian what about Alex/Alexander?

LoreleiG · 01/06/2024 21:30

I can’t imagine your lovely Yorkshire accent ruins the names OP. I like Dexter from your list. Reuben is nice too. Or just a classic like Tom or Ben.

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