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Just watched Louis Theroux

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ReadyFreddie · 03/02/2011 23:19

and have fallen in love with the name Louis!

My baby is due in 3 months (we don't know what we're having) and haven't found The Boy's Name yet.
My son is called Frederick and I just googled Louis Theroux to discover that his son is also called Frederick!

So what do you think of Louis? And does it go nicely with Frederick?

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5DollarShake · 05/02/2011 08:45

Yeah, St Loius in the US is pronounced Saint Lou-ee. My American colleague are all just back from a week of meetings there and all called it Saint Lou-ee. The American singer Louis Armstrong is pronounced Lou-ee.

And what's the way Gemans might pronounce it got to do with anything?! How many Germans do people called Louis meet on a daily basis?

5DollarShake · 05/02/2011 08:46

Oops sorry for misspelling of first Louis!

LadyintheRadiator · 05/02/2011 09:54

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ThatllDoPig · 05/02/2011 10:10

Shame about Louis Walsh though.

Pumpster · 05/02/2011 10:31

I love Louis, was on my list. I have an Isla and she often gets called 'Izla'!

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ReadyFreddie · 05/02/2011 11:18

Haha Louis Walsh is actually called MICHAEL!

Just looked it up :D

He must have changed it to Louis in adulthood 'cause it's such a great name!

I think I'm all set for using it.

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SilkStalkings · 05/02/2011 17:32

If you listen very carefully to Louis Theroux when he introduces himself, you can hear he has VERY posh pronunciation (being ex-public school).
"How d'you do? Lweh"

mellicauli · 05/02/2011 17:46

I love the name Louis too and have called DS2 Louis. Maybe just as much after Donald Duck's nephew than Louis Theroux

But be prepared for DS1 to find lots of variations (Has Louis done a poo-ey? Can I call him LouLou?) And you will feel a bit worried whenever you see Pineapple Dance Studios.

But what will all that mean in 10 years time?

JamieLeeCurtis · 05/02/2011 19:32

ReadyFreddie - actually - St Louis is pronounced St Lewis by people from there (my aunt is one of them)

I do like the name Louis (pronounced the French way)

JamieLeeCurtis · 05/02/2011 19:37

St Louis

(sorry for hi-jack)

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ReadyFreddie · 05/02/2011 19:55

Furry muff, but they're all wrong!

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cowboylover · 06/02/2011 20:12

I really like Louis and it was on our top 2 if we where expecting a DS

Goes so well with Frederick as well x

Teapot13 · 06/02/2011 22:35

I don't have a dog in this fight but I can't believe the venom on this thread.

In case anyone's interested, in American English, Louis and Lewis are variant spellings of the same name, with the "s" pronounced. I have known many people named Louis and I have never, ever heard them say it the French way. We do pronounce it the French way when we talk about French people but that doesn't mean anything there are other names that exist in both languages (like Robert) with different pronunciations. I find it interesting that it's obviously so different in the UK. In America, it would be a serious affectation to say "Lou-ee" it's just not a French name to us.

It's ridiculous to even type this, but I will in the name of cross-cultural understanding. The s's in both St. Louis (Missouri) and Louis Armstrong are pronounced. Many people say St. Louie affectionately, and we all know Pops went by Louie. But get out your "best of" CD and listen to "Hello, Dolly" once again and listen for the "s."

"This is Lou-is, Dolly. . ."

Couldn't be clearer.

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ReadyFreddie · 06/02/2011 23:35

Venom??

FYI Teapot13, read the NOTES at the bottom of this..

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong

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Teapot13 · 06/02/2011 23:49

Yeah, I did think some of the posts were mean.

That's interesting about LA. Do you know why he pronounced his "s" in "Hello, Dolly" ? Maybe there was an inside joke or something because he really emphasizes it.

KirstyJC · 07/02/2011 10:53

Crikey Teapot, think you might be a tad oversensitive here - venom? Dogfight? What thread have you been reading?!?!

Has it touched a nerve with you or something?! Or do you not 'get' English tongue-in-cheek comments?

This is a light-hearted discussion about a name and the frustrations when people mispronounce it.

Chill my dear!

chipmonkey · 07/02/2011 11:01

Mathanxiety, thank you! I was actually worrying about how I had got through life not knowing how to pronounce Thomas! Am very relieved to find it's just my Irishness!

spiderlight · 07/02/2011 21:04

My OH is a Louis and nobody ever pronounces it like Lewis - the only error he encounters is that people tend to spell it 'Louie'.

sonniebonnie · 07/02/2011 22:19

Just because the French don't pronounce their 's' at the end of some words, doesn't mean we (English) need to copy them. No other language would not pronounce Louis without the s. It is Lou-is in German, Dutch, Spanish and probably many other languages too.

Should we also pronounce Hugo without the 'H' or Charles without the 's', just because they do so in France ?

sonniebonnie · 07/02/2011 22:21

And spiderlight, the fact that English people think the name is spelt Louie (rather than Louis) proves the same point: if the name had an 's' our (non French) brains want to pronounce it.

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