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Pronunciation help please!

38 replies

Didanyoneordermeaplaincheese · 14/04/2014 11:24

How would you pronounce Recs?

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UriGeller · 14/04/2014 11:27

You mean Rex?

Didanyoneordermeaplaincheese · 14/04/2014 11:32

Is that what you'd instantly think it was Uri?

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addictedtosugar · 14/04/2014 11:35

Yep, Rex here too.

Are you thinking Rees as a pronunciation?

UriGeller · 14/04/2014 11:37

Yes, Have you got another way to pronounce it?

Didanyoneordermeaplaincheese · 14/04/2014 11:44

Maybe I won't say just yet incase I influence any replies!

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Martorana · 14/04/2014 11:49

Rex. But don't. Just........don't.

Bowlersarm · 14/04/2014 11:50

Wrecks rather than Rex

Didanyoneordermeaplaincheese · 14/04/2014 11:56

Martorana - no to Recs or no to Rex? ...or both?! Lol!

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Martorana · 14/04/2014 11:57

Rex is fine. If a little on the Fido continuum. Recs is just silly.

fideline · 14/04/2014 12:00

Makes me think Recs as in recreation grounds.

Would have to be pronounced as Rex/wrecks anyhow.

Curious now whether you're attempting an avant garde spelling of Rhys/Reece.

Or is this someone elses child?

RiverTam · 14/04/2014 12:03

Rex.

Recs is short for recreation grounds.

CadleCrap · 14/04/2014 12:05

I would say Rex.

At a REAL push I could manage Reeks

squoosh · 14/04/2014 12:11

Rex.

Recs doesn't look like a real name, it looks like an abbreviation for 'recommendations' or 'recreation'.

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 14/04/2014 12:16

Recs isnt a real name, surely? id think you had mis spelled Rex.

Rex, btw, is a marvellous name.

Beanymonster · 14/04/2014 12:19

I'd have thought there was a typo for Rex, tbh.

florascotia · 14/04/2014 12:27

However you pronounce it, in English, its in the plural form. One Rec, two Recs, three Recs... etc. I'm not sure why anyone would want to give a single child a plural name.

Also, the term RECS is in very common use in the energy industry and among environmental businesses/campaigns. It stands for for Renewable Egergy Certificates. There is even an interntional RECS organisation www.recs.org/.With energy price concerns/global warming worries/environmental education etc, a child with that name might feel a little strange.

UriGeller · 14/04/2014 15:23

If it IS another way to spell 'Rex' you could really let yourself go and spell it
'WRh'ekkkz'.

Morgause · 14/04/2014 15:24

For god's sake don't give your child a spelling mistake for a name - he will be teased.

NigellasDealer · 14/04/2014 15:25

Recs? is he a cousin of Dai Brainbocs?

bouncingbelle · 14/04/2014 15:30

Rex

Or, at a push, reh-see-s?

ouryve · 14/04/2014 15:33

If you're having to ask for your own child, then everyone else who encounters the child is going to have the same difficulty, so just don't.

Leggingsandtrainersnonono · 14/04/2014 15:42

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NigellasDealer · 14/04/2014 15:43

it would only work in country with a language that has no X - so that would be Wales or Poland AFAIK, correct me if I am wrong!

Yangsun · 14/04/2014 15:43

Perhaps Wretch? Not what I would read at first glance but probably my second guess if it's not Rex, nor a great name for a child though!!

MrsBungle · 14/04/2014 15:45

Recs just seems a misspelling of Rex to me.