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Does this sound as stupid to other people as it does to me?

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TinkerBellesMum · 11/08/2008 20:52

We've chosen the middle name of Denise - his granddad's name was Denis and it's a name that recurs through the family.

He wants to give the first name of Nerys (said like Denise, but with an N).

Nerys Denise? He can't see the problem, said it rolls off the tongue! Someone help me make him see sense!

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EachPeachPearMum · 12/08/2008 15:34

And Tink- some people pronounce 'Denise' as Duh-neez, which is different.

PuppyMonkey · 12/08/2008 15:14

No No. horrid.

marialuisa · 12/08/2008 15:13

Well there's Preece as well, which may be the missing link, in the Ap Rhys to Price thing? There's also Rhys-Reece-Rice as surnames Pronounciation got changed gradually and the variants developed?

crumpet · 12/08/2008 15:03

completely irrelevant but We Love Nerys Hughes was a song by half man half biscuit...

1066andallthat · 12/08/2008 14:47

Nerys as in Nerys Hughes (The Liver Birds?). Actually, I love it the other way round - Denise Nerys. There is no reason why you can't use Nerys, all the time either. Half of my family go by their second name.

EachPeachPearMum · 12/08/2008 14:47

WHat I don't understand though is how the name 'AP Rhys'(ap reece) became 'Price' (pryce)- how does that work anyone?

edam · 12/08/2008 14:34

Oh, very good point, eachpeach! Am clearly lacking in imagination today... Wonder if the difference is that Rhys is one syllable and Nerys is two? Or if the 'h' makes a difference (like the y in Dylan being pron. sort of Duh?).

DRAGON30 · 12/08/2008 10:49

When 'y' is in the last syllable of a word it is pronounced as an 'i' - as in English 'ink'. The 'y' in single syllable words is v. unpredictable! So in short, 'y' can be 'uh', 'i' or 'ee', (but not 'ee' in Nerys-thats 2 syllables). Hope thats clear!

EachPeachPearMum · 12/08/2008 10:08

um edam -how do you pronounce the name 'Rhys' then please?

Collision · 12/08/2008 09:47

Nerys is quite nice.

The way your DH wants to pronounce it would be more like Nuh-reeese (as in Dun-eeeese)

No. sorry. No.

edam · 12/08/2008 09:44

Good points, Dragon - I can't think of any Welsh word where 'y' is pron. ee. I'm not a Welsh speaker, though, just got a Welsh speaking father and relatives.

OP, seems you are the only person who has ever come across the Nerees pronunciation...

DRAGON30 · 12/08/2008 09:32

Whoops, that should be Wikipedia, of course.

DRAGON30 · 12/08/2008 09:30

It's pronounced as Neriss, and thats that! I have NEVER heard it said in any other way in Wales,and I am
A) A Welsh speaker.
B) Lived in both North and South
C) Am over 40, - so I have a lot of years behind me!
The 'Y' at the end is pronounced as 'i', as in 'ink'. Think of Cerys, - does anyone say Cerees, [unless they're thick!}
Ner-ees from Welsh Welshpedia, . Is that as 'accurate' as the main Wikipeia? People add their own (wrong!) listings to that!

EachPeachPearMum · 11/08/2008 23:22

Put another name in between them?

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TinkerBellesMum · 11/08/2008 22:21

Fortunately we're not married so it's my choice anyway and he knows I'd ban him from coming with me if he tries anything

Last time we didn't have name sorted and he came to me the next day and asked what I wanted to call her and said it was ok if I wanted to call her the name I wanted (and his kids and my brothers kids lol) she was nearly a day old before we put the first name in (middle names had been sorted during first pregnancy). It was the same first time as well, but that was slightly different.

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wonderstuff · 11/08/2008 22:14

We have a rhyming first name/middle name combo for dd1 There was only one name that we both agreed on as a first name and dh wanted his grannys name as a middle name, I ran out of energy on the whole name thing and decided to decide when she arrived, thinking we'd see if she looked like Isla or Eliza. Whilst I was in a pethidine haze dh said so we are going with Isla Eliza then? When I sobered up he'd sent the text telling everyone already! Took me months to get used to her name, called her baby girl for months and months. Anyway now I figure that I just won't use her middle name much.. The moral of the story is sort this out before she is born

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TinkerBellesMum · 11/08/2008 22:12

It's the name we wanted as a middle name, Tink's middle name is a derivation of Mum's name, Denise is a family name for TBD so it is becoming sort of a tradition.

lol at nursery rhyme, that's exactly what I was feeling, but couldn't place how it made me feel IYSWIM.

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chipmonkey · 11/08/2008 22:05

no, no, no, you can't call your dd that! Each name fine on it's own but not together. As to "rolling off the tongue" yeah sure it does but you're having a child, not a nursery rhyme!

Mellin · 11/08/2008 21:59

Try saying that combo with a lisp!
Sounds like you aren't keen on them both together. If you like Denise why not use that for the first name and come up with another middle name?

hatwoman · 11/08/2008 21:53

sorry for hi-jack. back to nerris/nereece/deneece etc.

zippitippitoes · 11/08/2008 21:53

i dont pronounce them te same and tbh how often do you use your mifdle name and usually just wrotten anyway

no problem to me

hatwoman · 11/08/2008 21:52

just did. names like Bear are strictly for people who appear in Hello! imvho of course.

Quattrocento · 11/08/2008 21:50

It's for real. Read it and weep (with laughter).

hatwoman · 11/08/2008 21:47

someone is planning to call their DS Bear?? quattrocentro I saw that thread-title, did a doublt take, then assumed Bear was a surname....(I'm off to scheck it out, really not sure I believe you...)

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TinkerBellesMum · 11/08/2008 21:37

edam, my Granddad used to live in South Wales, so I can believe it's a N/S thing as it's practically two countries lol. There were Nerys's in my grandparents village with that pronunciation.

(NER-ees) from Welshpedia.

Can't find any others at the moment.

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