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To use a 'foreign' name for DC?

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TrueBlu · 06/03/2016 18:49

There has been some debate in recent months about names you can/can't use on baby names.

So my question is, is it ur to use a name when you have no connection to its country of origin. Would you be appropriating the culture it came from?

Also, when is it 'okay' to Anglicise names?

E.g. I could use Connor instead of Conchobhar, or Neve instead of Niamh, but not Zanthe instead of Xanthe or Eefa instead of Aoife.

OP posts:
Pipbin · 14/03/2016 07:55

How would you pronounce Austeja for example?

Gwenhwyfar · 14/03/2016 08:37

I don't accept that most people would cope with Xanthe either.

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