Rue as a nickname for...

[LaLuz7]

I love Rue (pronounced the French way) but can't come up with any longer proper names this could work as a nn for.

Help?

Regarding pronunciation the French way, do you mean you’re going to roll your Rs?!

French does NOT roll the R. You must be confusing it with Spanish!!

Please no one call your child Roux.

But Rue in French sounds not like it...!!!

I know a Roux (girl) and a couple of Roos (one is a Ruth, the other is a Ruby).

Ruby
Ruanne
Ruanna
Ruba

Ruth, Rue is an excellent nn.

My cousin is Andrew, known to all as Roo

My dd has a Rue in her year not sure on the spelling.

Rudy

Bruna
Fairuza
Marusia
Verushka

Rula - like the actress.

Rupert
Rufus

Rula
Drew

As a previous poster said, the vowel sound in French 'Rue' is different from the English.
It's a sound that occurs in Scottish pronounciation but is much less common in English - for example the Scots words 'puir', 'muir' etc etc. The nearest equivalent in English is probably in words such as 'mew'. So in English Rue would be 'roo' / and in French (very approximately) 'rew'.

What are you talking about? There’s only one syllable in ´rue’ and no acute accent.
And English speakers don’t stress every syllable? We alternate stressed and unstressed syllables.

@Diverseopinions , Lorraine is seen as a strange choice of name by the french, as it's the name of a region. There's no acute accent in rue
Emma-Ray is a beautiful name ruined by the addition of -Ray

ROISIN

I thought the poster meant that Rue was pronounced Roo ay in French. I wonder how Rue would be pronounced on the other side of the Channel, then.

I think the Brits do emphasize syllables more than the French, in ordinary conversation, and do change names. I know lots of occasions when Nadines have been called Nade een, with the stress more on the first and a bit on the second, and, definitely, Dianes get called: Die. Ann, with a heavy stress on the first, and quite a stress too, on the second syllable. In every day interactions, it just seems to be easier for people to say that way.

I think the French word that is pronounced roo-ay is roué, @Diverseopinions - which is defined as a debaiuched or pervy man, especially an elderly one - not what @LaLuz7 wants, I’m sure!

In the Chalet School books, the name Ruhannah is shortened to Ruey, which I have always assumed is pronounced roo-ee.

Ruée and rue are different words.
´rue’ has the French ´r’ sound (made in the back of your throat) then a vowel that’s made more a bit more forward in the mouth than the vowel in English ´blue’. Your mouth should be a bit more closed too.
French doesn’t really have stressed syllables in every important word like English does. The final syllable in a phrase tends to be a bit longer, but English has this really distinct pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in running speech. Look up ´iambic pentameter’ if you want to see examples using Shakespearean verse.
You’re right that loads of names are pronounced very differently in French and English but you’re mixing up stress and syllables with just having completely different vowels. French vowels are all fairly similar in terms of length and English vowels vary. Some are really short like the ´i’ in KIT and some are always quite long, like the ´ee’ in SEE and the ´ie’ in PIE (same as the first vowel in Diane).

Thanks. I always found learning languages and hearing the sounds difficult.

Ruée would be a strange name.
I'd say that in French the syllables are more evenly stressed than in English.
French Diane is more like Dee-Ann, whereas in English it's more like Die-ANN

So is the name in question pronounced Roo ee, as in the Chalet books?

@Diverseopinions , no. It's approximately Roo, but the R is said in the french way, and the 'oo' bit is more like saying ee with your mouth in the shape fora 'oo' sound.

go to google translate or similar. put Street in the english field, then go to the french bit and click 'listen'.

I agree. It's a lovely name on its own