Alouette?

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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?

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

je te plumerai

Voilà !

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

Oops my last comment was for clearsomme.

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!

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

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

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"

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

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

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.

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.

Wow, I thought it meant Goose?

Brigitte, Lisette, Louise?

How about Merle? French for blackbird

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...

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.