Catherine or Katherine

[OooShiney]

DD has always been insistent that my bump in fact contains a kitty cat and not DC2, we haven't found out the sex but if it's a girl we've thought about C/Katherine with the nickname Kitty.

DD is Beatrice.

But don't know if we should put Catherine or Katherine on the BC... What d'ya think?

I, in general tend to prefer the C, however not in this case for some reason, the K is definitely nicer.

Katherine.

Catherine just seems more plain.

love catherine.........
but hate katherine!
No idea why!

Catherine imo

I prefer Catherine.

Love Catherine and came to say it's traditional, innit.

But I see Get and LRD have friffing spoiled that for me. Feckers.

[chagrin]

horatia - fair enough, I stand corrected. What do they come from?

Oops, sorry chaos.

But turns out we're wrong anyway, so feel free to come back and call us pig-ignorant plebs, won't you?

Lol at chagrin.

But like LrD says we are all to cock re katharos anyway.

Unless horatia is wrong and she is just tricking us...

I bet she's going to cop out and tell us it's via Old Saxon or summat, getorf.

With a C - its the only way!

Prettier spelled with a K

Katherine :) the 'ar' spelling is much less common and when you have a name with so many variants it's easier to go with the more common one. Never ever Kathryn. Vom.

Catherine or Kathryn.

IIRC it is one of those "dunno" ones, neatly back formed to a word with a pleasant meaning. Certainly my dictionary has it as an "etymology unknown; some suggest..." which is a big fat hedge.

Sorry to disappoint.

Part of my own skepticism re K- variants in English comes from looking at variants in other languages - Slavic and Celtic languages use K (because they don't use C for that sound) and Romance languages use C (because they do) so adherence to K- on etymological grounds is a bit ... unnecessary.

And even if we are all ultimately using Catherine/Katherine from Greek-for-pure then we are doing so linguistically a long way from the original.

That said, Katharine of Aragon was anglicised from Spanish Catalina (as in contemporary materials with H and K interwoven) although that may have been a contemporary fashion as Kitty Howard was also a K-.

Thanks horatia.

It's such a pretty name, anyway. One of my favourites.

Cathryn?

That's how my middle name is spelled...

chaos
I would like to draw your attention to my post - I said Katherine.
I thought you luffed me :(

Yes, high on my list too.

spelt properly with a C and with K nicknames muahahahahaha

Katherine seems stronger to me than Catherine. I would look at the nick names you might use and go for Katherine for Kitty or Catherine for Cathy.

how about Katharine, like me

Hmm. OP I think you might be me. In the future.

In which case I would go for either Catherine or Kathryn. Kitty is gorgeous and I can imagine having it for a potential DD2 at any cost

Catherine, I just don't like the spikeyness of a 'K'

oh, and if it's a boy you are going to need to have a cat type name too.

Thomas or Felix perhaps :)