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Miele

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UnrequitedSkink · 19/01/2010 22:28

Just seen that someone I used to know now has a little girl and has called her Miele (French for honey). I think it LOOKS beautiful, but how would you pronounce it? Mi-EL or Mee-lay?

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stressedHEmum · 22/01/2010 14:04

My husband works with a lady called Miele (meelie.) She is Estonian and it is a widley used name there.

boodleboot · 22/01/2010 13:02

Miel is a gorgeous name. I have love that word since i first started wearing l'occitanes Miel&Citron perfume and only wish i would be brave enough to use it.....maybe i will be?!? altho the miele connection is pretty 'orrible for a child.....

crankytwanky · 21/01/2010 20:55

As in the vacuum cleaner?

I suppose Jane is a make of buggy, although pronounced Ha-nay, I believe.

Does anyone think this is the bounty Huns getting their own back?

Grimmer, I bought my dishwasher BECAUSE it had Smeg written on it, and it makes me smirk!

YanknCock · 20/01/2010 22:05

Great hoovers though....

sanfairyann · 20/01/2010 21:59

rofl

LaRagazzaInglese · 20/01/2010 21:57

IT'S ITALIAN FOR HONEY
Pronounced Mee-ell-eh
(but only a dog's name in Italy!)

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UnrequitedSkink · 20/01/2010 19:48

Just to clarify, I was NOT thinking of calling my child this! I merely saw it elsewhere, smirked, and left it to the discerning mumsnet panel to see what they made of it... which is to say, not much

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oldenglishspangles · 20/01/2010 18:38

ditto TheBolter

Tartyhighheels Beko get 4 stars our of 5 for reliability on Which?. So maybe not such a poor quality name

TheBolter · 20/01/2010 18:24

ROFL I glanced at this thinking it was a Products thread and did a double take when I realised it was in Baby names.

Bathsheba · 20/01/2010 18:18

I used to work with an Italian guy and his surname was Miele

He always pronounced it Me-EL so thats always how I've pronounced it (in the white goods world anyway)

CirrhosisByTheSea · 20/01/2010 17:53

rofl at a boy and girl named smeg and miele

If you like this how about Merle? Tis an actual name

mistlethrush · 20/01/2010 17:27

Why do people choose foreign names/words without looking them up first???? Any dictionary would have ensured that they got the spelling right... On a bit of a similar vein, I asked a proud mother of a small baby girl what she had decided to call her - Beau. As in handsome. I was remarkably restrained!

MissWooWoo · 20/01/2010 17:09

um, it's the name of a hoover

I soooooooooo can see 'dyson' (for a boy of course) being de riguer in 10 years time (gag)

GetOrfMoiLand · 20/01/2010 16:56

Bump to see if anyone else shares my thoights on this madness

MaggieNilAonSneachta · 20/01/2010 11:41

lol at siblings bosch and smeg. smeg for a boy I do hope.

MaggieNilAonSneachta · 20/01/2010 11:40

white goods. i can just see it on a blender.

Miel is Tara Newley's daughter's name. (Joan Collin's daughter)

Bucharest · 20/01/2010 11:01

I'm going to call my next one Crunchy-Peanut-Butter.
I find the hypens make is seem even classier.

GrimmaTheNome · 20/01/2010 10:59

Yes,Mrs V, I was about to say 'Here's my daughter Miele and my boys Bosch and Smeg.'

It has occurred to me before now that the group of people buying the latter-named white goods and viewers of Red Dwarf must certainly be non-intersecting sets!

GetOrfMoiLand · 20/01/2010 10:55

Why? WHY?

I don't know why anyone would do this.

If you want to call you kid after honey, call it Honey, or Melissa (which means honey in I think Greek). Or Asali which is Swahili for honey. Or bloody look at all the other languages in the world and find out what means honey in some remote language of south american tribes, if that is what floats your boat.

Don't don't name it after a brand of frciking fridges or hoovers you bloody mentalist.

GetOrfMoiLand · 20/01/2010 10:52

What a bloody stupid name for a kid.

I have said this on a daft name thread before - people who cannot be trusted to name thier own children sensible names (not after fridges e.g.) should be forcibly made by the registrar to call them Bernard or Brenda.

Tamarto · 20/01/2010 10:40

I just snorted juice at the screen there MrsV!

It would be exactly like calling them hotpoint or dyson or hoover!

tartyhighheels · 20/01/2010 10:39

At least it is a quality brand - it could be beko .....

MrsvWoolf · 20/01/2010 10:36

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legallyblond · 20/01/2010 10:33

Isn't this like calling your child Hoover?

If you like the sound/look of the French for honey (miel) or the italian (miele - pronounced mi-el-ay), how about the french name Mireille. I have a v good friend with this name (she is only a quarter french) and it is pronounced mir-aye (ie the "ll" is silent).... I think its pretty.

birdofthenorth · 20/01/2010 10:08

My neighbour's dog was called Miel. I quite like it! But it's masculine in French (I think) so how about Mielle? That ought to help people with the pronounciation: Mi-elle. I haven't heard of the fridge brand so tat wouldn't bother me -but obvoiusly lots of people have! Still, it sounds nice to me,and it's not eaxctly like you're calling her Hotpoint