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Thoughts on Dulcie

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GiantChocButtons06 · 30/10/2015 17:22

I'm guessing it's quite an old fashioned name as I've looked after a few elderly ladies with this name, but haven't come across any little dulcie's yet. What's everyone's opinion x

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JakeyBurd · 30/10/2015 23:16

I like it. I also quite like the more elaborate form Dulcibelle, but I expect to be alone in that!

AGBforever · 30/10/2015 23:37

I love it too - to whoever said 'twee' it definitely conjures images of ringlets and ribbons if that's what you mean, but lovely all the same

DramaAlpaca · 30/10/2015 23:42

I don't like it at all, sorry.

Themodernuriahheep · 30/10/2015 23:48

Says Don Q and Spenser to me, but I like it. Although at school she will be teased as Dull, and yes it is Dull sea, that's get over able.

Avoid Dulse as a nn too, isn't it a type of seaweed?

MitzyLeFrouf · 31/10/2015 01:14

I don't like it.

Makes me think of some slack jawed Victorian fuss pot who spends her day sitting on a frilly cushion.

DancingDinosaur · 31/10/2015 01:16

I like it.

villainousbroodmare · 31/10/2015 01:18

Snort Grin Grin @ slack jawed Victorian fuss pot who spends her day sitting on a frilly cushion even though I do like it!

Binkybix · 31/10/2015 08:28

It's not my cup of tea. mitzy has put into words exactly what image it conjures for me: Grin

akes me think of some slack jawed Victorian fuss pot who spends her day sitting on a frilly cushion

Only1scoop · 31/10/2015 08:30

I know 3 between
6 months and 4

I think it's quite nice

Toomuch2young · 31/10/2015 08:32

Not to my liking at all. I have only heard it pronounced 'dull-sea'.

AliciaMayEmory · 31/10/2015 08:34

Ahhh, if it's pronounced Dull-cee then I change my mind!! Not so keen.

babyblabber · 31/10/2015 11:57

I know a 2 week old one. It's cute

IoraRua · 31/10/2015 15:17

Not a fan.

I'm also picturing a Victorian...but then I think it'd fit on a lap dancer quite well too.

smartyclogs · 31/10/2015 16:52

Not what I'd choose.

Wasn't there a chain of shoe shops called Dolsis some time ago?
Dulcie, pronounced doll-see, reminds me of shoe shops.
Dulcie pronounced dull-see, not so nice.

Louise43210 · 31/10/2015 16:57

Its a lovely name, old fashioned in a pretty way. Makes me think of those old fashioned pictures like this for some reason.

Floralnomad · 31/10/2015 17:03

I also have only heard it pronounced Dull-sea ,for some reason it makes me think of short ,dumpy people who are a little clumsy , I think that's because of a character in a book I read as a child .

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 31/10/2015 17:44

That's interesting flora'the teens I know called Dulcie are tall, slim, pale girls, almost etherael. Both of them.

Alisvolatpropiis · 31/10/2015 18:15

I think it is awful, sorry.

MaudGonneMad · 31/10/2015 18:19

Short for Dulcibella?

mathanxiety · 31/10/2015 21:05

Dollsee would be the pronunciation of 'dolce' as in dolce de leche.

Dulcie is pronounced dull-see.

I think it is horribly twee.
Old ladies known as Dulcie were hardly ever registered as such. It is an old fashioned NN, like 'lovey' or 'dearie' or 'sweetie' (it is actually a fancy version of sweetie).

dulciemae · 08/10/2016 09:19

Hiya. Funny finding myself on this year-old thread at quarter past nine on a Saturday morn... but no one in my 22 years of living has ever called me Dull...thankfully! Also a lot of international people call me doll-see, which in my book is completely fine. (People used to call me dolphin, you see, and I learnt what was worse Grin)

Ontopofthesunset · 08/10/2016 09:30

Why would it be pronounced Doll-see by 'international' people? In which languages is a short u pronounced o? Just curious. I can see it might be pronounced Dool-see or Dool-chee. Actually why would it be pronounced Doll-see in English?

I quite like Dulcie though it's very girly and doesn't have a grown up version.

dulciemae · 08/10/2016 10:00

I don't know. I have never really analysed it. Although when I lived in Sierra Leone, people would call me Doll-see all the time so much that 'dolly' was my new name 😂 So much so for a few people I know from Eastern Europe, and even my North African dad - who wanted to call me Fatima 😂

I'm a grown up and I think it suits me. I'm not an incredibly girly person either. I think names suit people once you know them.

dulciemae · 08/10/2016 10:07

Come to think of it actually, I'm from London, and lots of people from school would call me doll-see because me just cos of their accent. The intonation is not that different when spoken, and it would sound harder if they tried to pronounce it in a 'proper' way.

Is it obvious yet that I have learnt to respond to whatever people call me?? I've obviously learnt to simmer down sounding like a 'Victorian fusspot' since my early days.

katemess12 · 08/10/2016 10:12

The most god awful name.

There's a Dulcie in my family. She's a right narcissistic cow. May have clouded my view of the name. She also hates the name though.