Margot

[kettleonplease]

Is it reasonable to assume that 'Margot' is the latest MN fad?

Personally I can't stand the name, it reminds me of maggot...but that's not the point!

Anyone else recall any prior MN fads? I'm sure Violet was one recently as well.

Know, knot, gnome, gnarly, wrap, knee, fasten, whistle, mortgage.

wrong...knowledge

There is normally no silent t at the end of an English word. The examples you gave, ballet and rapport are originally French.

English doesn’t have silent T’s?!

Margot is a lovely name, hadn’t even thought about the ‘maggot’ thing until MN. I think it’s silly though as you can do that with loads of names. Kids jokes aren’t usually as sophisticated as that anyway it’s usually ‘smelly Kelly’ or ‘gobby Gabby’ and as Margot doesn’t sound remotely like maggot I think all the little Margots are safe.

Sunflower your argument is falling apart, just accept defeat on this one and move on

Many (most?) English words are originally another language, why does that matter? In fact that's one of the reasons that there aren't really any hard and fast rules about how things are pronounced in English.

Which returns me to my original point which is that to say that something is pronounced a certain way "phonetically in English" doesn't really work. If you were talking about Japanese it would mostly.

English doesn’t have silent ‘t’s 😂😂😂😂

It 100% does. Depot? Filet? Ballet?

Margot is lovely. I also like Juno and Clio.

The o sound is just so fresh and rajrwe plucky for girls. :)

I flippin love it. Feminine and strong without being girly and flowery.

Margot = The Good Life in my head

Margot harsh sounding? It's the opposite to me. Edith is a harsh sounding name imo.

I quite like Margot but think it will be a passing fad like Penelope.

It 100% does. Depot? Filet? Ballet?

But they are all originally French.

@Sunflower321 your original argument was that English doesn't have silent T's...

But they are all originally French.

Which shows we often (another silent t there) pronounce words after the French fashion - like we do Margot. I'm completely baffled - what are you trying to prove here?

I'm not trying to prove anything . Just trying to explain that non French speakers might pronounce Margot with the t. This may or may not be an issue, but might be useful to know when choosing the name.

But none French speaker prounounce Ballet without the T? Because it’s a word used in English as well.

We haven't encountered any issues with non French speakers pronouncing the T 😊

Regardless we love our dd's name and she suits it to a.... T 😘

But none French speaker prounounce Ballet without the T?

Yes, definitely true for (most?) English accents and dialects.

It unfortunately isn't the case in Germany (and a few other European countries). Ballett, Report, Parkett (means parquet) etc are all pronounced with a hard t.

Which is unfortunately why we couldn't use Margot (well, if the LO was a girl)...

Just an FYI for anyone with ties to Germany (or other parts of Europe), is thinking about relocating etc:)

We only don't pronounce the 't' in, for example, 'ballet' - because it's a French word.

What some of us are saying is that several languages do not stick to the original French pronunciation of words. They pronounce them phonetically to match their language.

So originally French words like ballet or the name Margot are pronounced as ball-ett and Mar-gott in those languages.

This may not be an issue for you, but it might be useful to know in case any little Margots grow up and decide to study or work in one of those countries.

But please feel free to ignore all this if you feel it isn't useful or helpful

@Sunflower321 is probably right, but that's the same for countless names.

Claudia = Cloud-ia
Craig = Creg
Iwan = Yi-yan
Anthony/Antony
Helena/Helayna
Adolf = Ay-dolf

To name a few.

So seems a moot point regarding Margot.

@AmyRhodes surely no one would name their child Adolf?!

@kettleonplease You'd hope not 😂 But if they did, they'd do well to reference this Margo/Margott debate.

God forbid anyone called your baby Adolf Ay-dolf!

Cringing at ‘English doesn’t have silent ‘T’s’

Wow.

I love vintage names, both DDs have them. I thought I was the only one till I joined MN!

I have a Margot, I love the name, always have. It was very unique back when I named her and I'm a bit annoyed that apparently it's a MN cliche now!