Alouette?

[ReadySaltedandOJ]

What are your thoughts on Alouette? It's a French name and means 'lark', which I think is lovely. Every time I say it out loud however, the song 'alouette, gentille alouette' pops into my head!
I'd love some opinions!
Also, what do you think the best nn would be?

[clearsommespace]

Agree with other posters, it is most definitely not a name in France.

I have met an English 'Colombe'. She is probably in her 40s now.

[Chottie]

Please no. Your DD would have 'that' song sung at her ad nauseam

[wallywobbles]

I have s nursery rhyme name. Bloody nightmare as a kid.

[GerundTheBehemoth]

Tourterelle des bois is turtle dove. Tourterelle turque is collared dove. Tourterelle maillée is laughing dove.

[GerundTheBehemoth]

I think a colombe must be a domestic white pigeon. It's not in this very long list of wild birds recorded in France. There are six kinds of alouette there though!

[clearsommespace]

'Colombe' is the bird which brought Noé the olive branch

[Raines100]

je te plumerai

[Footle]

Voilà !

[donajimena]

Ive got the 'plumerai' bit of the song going around my head now. Its a no from me.

[Footle]

Oops my last comment was for clearsomme.

[dizzytomato]

donajimena I've been singing this song with my god awful French since I posted on this thread. I can't stop, anyone else? We have a Fisher Price cd with it on, which my three year old loves, but that may not last if I don't stop soon!

[DramaAlpaca]

Me too dizzytomato, it's been driving me mad all weekend

[Footle]

Try 'Savez vous planter les choux?' , then you'll have a French ear worm for each ear.

[Ememem84]

footle "savez vous planter les choux? A la mode a la mode! Saves vous planter les choux? A le mode de mes genous!"

Love that song.

Also "cou cou hibou"

[Flumplet]

I've had that damned song in my head since I saw this thread days ago. It's driving me to distraction!!!

[Footle]

Mes genoux ? De chez nous, I thought. I don't know the hibou one but I'll ask a grandchild.

[Ememem84]

We used to sing "mes genous" also "avec mes yeux" dad is french. And a bit silly. So it's possible he taught us the wrong words. On purpose.

[Ememem84]

The hibou one is about an owl. I think. And is annoying. The bit I know anyway there may be more "cou cou hibou cou cou hibou cou cou hibou hibou" and repeat a million times.

[annandale]

Wow, I thought it meant Goose?

Brigitte, Lisette, Louise?

[Eachleechsparethumb]

How about Merle? French for blackbird

[GerundTheBehemoth]

Noah's dove should've been a laughing dove (a tourterelle maillée), that's the default kind of dove that lives in the Middle East. But I'm not sure the bible was big on biological accuracy...

[GerundTheBehemoth]

Hibou are the owls with ears (long-eared/short-eared). Chouette is French for some other kinds of owls. I would have thought it meant 'miniature cabbage'.

There really aren't that many pretty French names for birds - I'm quite surprised. Some kinds of quails are called Colin.