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What do you think of Deirdre?

38 replies

Jeansgrate · 31/03/2010 23:37

What do you think of Deirdre as a girl's name?

The meaning is sad. Sorrowful. But would you let the meaning stop you using the name you love?

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notsochickchickchicken · 01/04/2010 09:00

Dreary Deirdre - sorry don't like it.

5DollarShake · 01/04/2010 08:50

Agree with MrsC - Deir-dree is a very anglicised way to pronounce the name. Deir-druh would be more correct.

So - if you don't like Dier-dree, then don't give her the mame, and if you don't like Dier-druh, then don't give her the name!

pitterpatterfeet · 01/04/2010 08:47

A nice name but I think Deirdre Barlow has spoiled it for me. I was at uni with an irish girl who pronounced it "deir-dra" though which I thought was lovely - think she spelled it the same though.

MrsCadwallader · 01/04/2010 07:11

My brother had a girlfriend called Deirdre - nicknamed Dee. She was Irish and pronounced it 'Deir-druh' which I believe is the 'correct' pronunciation in much much nicer than 'Deir-dree' IMO.

Quite like it (if pronounce Deir-druh) but wouldn't cos everyone would pronounce it otherwise and it would annoy me!

ChippingIn · 01/04/2010 06:39

Coro street - nope - wouldn't do it.

OhBuggerandArse · 31/03/2010 23:59

It's not just the meaning but the story; baby is removed from parents and brought up in isolation by king more than old enough to be her father so that he can shag her and noone else can see her; she escapes with another man but lives miserably in exile, then they are tricked back and her man & all his family murdered, then she is forcibly married to the king and finally commits suicide. That's why she's 'Deirdre of the Sorrows' and not really a very positive model.

LynetteScavo · 31/03/2010 23:47

I don't like the name Deirdre.

And the meaning would be important to me, I know it's not to a lot of people, buy I decided not to call DD a certain name because it meant "lame".

kalo12 · 31/03/2010 23:44

i have a lovely friend named deirdre, mostly nicknamed dee, or deedee.

BunnyLebowski · 31/03/2010 23:41

Deirdre Rachid. Chicken neck. Hubby who pushes Freshco trolleys.

Nyx · 31/03/2010 23:40

I'm not keen on the name, although I do know a lovely Deirdre - she lives in America and has had problems all her life with people pronouncing it 'Dear-druh' (although nobody she met in Britain pronounced it like that!)

ShowOfHands · 31/03/2010 23:39

She's alright but I don't like the colour of her twinset.

JaynieB · 31/03/2010 23:39

Barlow - Corrie, no, sorry!

hana · 31/03/2010 23:38

bad glasses and a rather long neck

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