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Fauve

55 replies

EllenDegenerate · 19/08/2016 19:26

Do you like it or not?

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Nannawifeofbaldr · 19/08/2016 19:27

As in the artistic movement?

PotatoBread · 19/08/2016 19:29

Ridiculous IMO, sorry.

Lilacpink40 · 19/08/2016 19:30

No sorry.

Newes · 19/08/2016 19:30

No. I hear it in Uncle Monty's voice.

Vixxfacee · 19/08/2016 19:30

How do you pronounce?

EllenDegenerate · 19/08/2016 19:31

Yes as in the artists and to rhyme with Clove.

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Vixxfacee · 19/08/2016 19:38

Terrible sorry.

Nannawifeofbaldr · 19/08/2016 19:38

But but but les Fauves were described as "wild beasts" no?

I like the art but I'm not sure about it as a name.

CremeEggThief · 19/08/2016 19:39

Eh?Confused

Sandyknickers · 19/08/2016 19:39

I love it, I know a girl called fauve.

Honeybee79 · 19/08/2016 19:40

I wouldn't. People would be constantly mishearing/misspelling/mispronouncing it.

fluentinsarcasm · 19/08/2016 19:46

Confused...is it pronounced Flove if it rhymes with Clove?

Boy or girls name?

EllenDegenerate · 19/08/2016 20:01

No it rhymes with clove, there is no L sound.

It's a girls name.

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BeastofCraggyIsland · 19/08/2016 20:12

There's a breed of small, cute, scruffy looking French scenthound called the Basset Fauve de Bretagne, although unless you're a dog-saddo vet like me that's probably not going to be the first thing that springs to mind. When she's old enough you could get Fauve a Fauve Smile

MargoReadbetter · 19/08/2016 20:15

No. Flavia is lovely though.

MrsGsnow18 · 19/08/2016 20:15

Is it pronounced F -ove with the ove being the same as in clove or drove?

It's not terrible. It looks nice written down.
It would certainly require spelling out for most I'd imagine it help with pronouncing.

SucculentSoul · 19/08/2016 20:17

I knew a girl called Fauve. No one could pronounce it properly when the they sawere it written down. I don't have strong feeling about it either way, don't like it, don't hate it.

Fauve · 19/08/2016 20:19

Oh, I love it.

Grin
JinkxMonsoon · 19/08/2016 20:19

Fove?

Nope.

Stevefromstevenage · 19/08/2016 20:21

I have heard of a few. It is a nice name.

CharlieSierra · 19/08/2016 20:22

I was at school with a Fauve, I love it.

NeedACleverNN · 19/08/2016 20:24

I bet I'm not the only person who pronounced it as faw-ve

EllenDegenerate · 19/08/2016 20:27

Oh I didn't know we already had one on MN!

That's fab actually Grin

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GoldFishFingerz · 19/08/2016 20:31

Maude

fluentinsarcasm · 19/08/2016 20:32

First time I've heard it, I think she will have a life time of correcting folk.

Always a big consideration for me, then again I was bitch slapped for suggesting Lawson so what do I know.