Georgia, Georgina or Georgette?

[HumberFisherGermanBight]

What are your thoughts on each?

I like quite classic names, and thinking of either Lucille, Martha or Elizabeth (family names) as a middle name (some combinations go better than others).

[SanityClause]

Incidentally, georgette is a kind of fabric. It's a kind of silk, though, not like flannelette, at all.

[Lightbulbon]

Georgiana

[Dancingupthewall]

Georgiana is pronounced Jor-JANE-a

Oh yes, that's a better way of writing the pronunciation.

[Pemba]

Actually Georgiana should be jor-jee-ahna as you would imagine from looking at the word.

Could it be that you got the jor-jayna pronunciation from the film 'The Duchess' with Keira Knightley? You see what happened at the time the Duchess was around was that she was a member of a fashionable clique in high society who sometimes liked to have their own special pronunciations for words. So if someone was part of that group they would use that pronunciation to show they belonged. So that's where 'jor-jayna' comes from. The pronunciation doesn't really make much sense.

Most people were pronouncing it jor-jee-ahna. If you think about it most names ending in 'ana' are pronounced that way. Eg the state of Louisiana.
But because of the film people are now thinking it should be jor-jayna.

[Pemba]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/1437303-Does-anybody-have-a-Georgiana

Explains here.

[SanityClause]

No, I've never seen that film, or even heard of it, Pemba,

But I would suggest that if a name has a number of potential pronounciations, then it might turn out to be a bit of a PITA, for the child, as they get older. (I have a very ordinary name, with an unusual spelling. That is certainly a PITA!)

[0pti0na1]

Georgina Elizabeth