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I am starting to like the name Irene ...
I love the way it looks but it is just the sound of it I think ugly (eye-REEN), in the Forsythe Saga is there not a character named Irene pronounced eye-REE-nee?
Also what do you think of Sunday for a boy, probably as a mn
alice x
I love the way it looks but it is just the sound of it I think ugly (eye-REEN), in the Forsythe Saga is there not a character named Irene pronounced eye-REE-nee?
Also what do you think of Sunday for a boy, probably as a mn
alice x
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I love Irene pronounced eye-REEN-ee. I wouldn't use it though, but it'd be near impossible to achieve that pronunciation in modern times. Incidentally, I live in Britain where the normal pron. is EYE-reen, with the stress on the first syllable, but I don't like that either lol :-/
I only like Sunday for a girl - I find vocabulary names seldom work on boys, though this one isn't awful.
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I only like Sunday for a girl - I find vocabulary names seldom work on boys, though this one isn't awful.
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I live in Britain also ... I thought maybe eye-REE-nee may be a american-accent thing; but I think now I would have a hard time trying to convince people it is a legitimate pronounciation
alice x
Edited because I can't spell
alice x
Edited because I can't spell
This message was edited 2/27/2005, 12:12 PM
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It's my best friend's favorite name, and when she first told me that I thought 'ewwww, it's an old person's name.' But that was a few years ago, and some of my favorite names now are "old" LOL.
I love the Forsyte Saga (the Masterpiece Theater movie/mini-series remake, aired a few years back). I always assumed her name was spelled differently, like Ireni or Irenie, but it's not (I looked it up, lol). But I think if you spelled it Irene, 99% of people would assume it's prn. like EYE-reen (even though I do think eye-ree-nee is cute). I also started to love the names Jolyon and Fleur after watching TFS. :b
I don't care for Sunday, on either gender. I guess it could work as a mn, but I see it as more feminine than masculine. The only person that comes to mind with the name is a preacher from years back named Billy Sunday, but that was his nn (I'm pretty sure, at least).
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I love the Forsyte Saga (the Masterpiece Theater movie/mini-series remake, aired a few years back). I always assumed her name was spelled differently, like Ireni or Irenie, but it's not (I looked it up, lol). But I think if you spelled it Irene, 99% of people would assume it's prn. like EYE-reen (even though I do think eye-ree-nee is cute). I also started to love the names Jolyon and Fleur after watching TFS. :b
I don't care for Sunday, on either gender. I guess it could work as a mn, but I see it as more feminine than masculine. The only person that comes to mind with the name is a preacher from years back named Billy Sunday, but that was his nn (I'm pretty sure, at least).
(Edited for a typo)
This message was edited 2/27/2005, 2:57 AM
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I like Irene and also Irena. I think they're both attractive sounding, especially Irena.
Sorry I don't care for Sunday as a name.
Edit to add I think the eye-reen-ee pronounciation is nice but because eye-reen is the well-known pronounciation, I think it would be hard to get people to pronounce it the other way.
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Sorry I don't care for Sunday as a name.
Edit to add I think the eye-reen-ee pronounciation is nice but because eye-reen is the well-known pronounciation, I think it would be hard to get people to pronounce it the other way.
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I like Irene too, and I wish it felt more natural to me to pronounce it eye-REE-nee because I think that's even prettier. I wouldn't have trouble adjusting to pronouncing it that way, though, if I met someone who did.
Sunday doesn't seem like a very masculine name to me. I don't think I'd like it on a boy, even as a middle name. But it sounds bright and fanciful, like it means something to somebody if it's used as a name. I don't really have any strong sense of disapproval about a man with the middle name Sunday, since middle names are generally kept pretty secret anyway.
- chazda
Sunday doesn't seem like a very masculine name to me. I don't think I'd like it on a boy, even as a middle name. But it sounds bright and fanciful, like it means something to somebody if it's used as a name. I don't really have any strong sense of disapproval about a man with the middle name Sunday, since middle names are generally kept pretty secret anyway.
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Yes, Irene was actually originally pronounced as ie-REE-nee. It was only later (in the 20th century?) that the pronunciation was altered to ie-REEN.
I like both pronunciations, but ie-REE-nee appeals to my sense of history more; it sounds more classic than ie-REEN imo. Princess Irene in The Princess and the Goblin is another ie-REE-nee bearer, fyi.
Sunday's interesting, and though it's not quite my style, I wouldn't mind it for a boy as a mn at all. It kind of sounds a bit effeminate for a boy, which is a plus to me because I like "sissy" names for boys. But I would only use Sunday if the child was actually born on a Sunday, because it'd just be weird to me otherwise.
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I like both pronunciations, but ie-REE-nee appeals to my sense of history more; it sounds more classic than ie-REEN imo. Princess Irene in The Princess and the Goblin is another ie-REE-nee bearer, fyi.
Sunday's interesting, and though it's not quite my style, I wouldn't mind it for a boy as a mn at all. It kind of sounds a bit effeminate for a boy, which is a plus to me because I like "sissy" names for boys. But I would only use Sunday if the child was actually born on a Sunday, because it'd just be weird to me otherwise.
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I don't care for it. Irene is ugly sounding and looking (to me), and I don't see it pronounced as eye-REE-nee. People will probably pronounce it as eye-reen, commonly. Sunday isn't a name to me, and it isn't at all masculine.
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