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I don't think you've thought it through. English people who pronounce Taylor without sounding the R associate it with a male occupation. What you associate it with is not evidence.

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I wouldn't name my child Taylor or indeed Tayla if I was the sole inhabitant of one of the outer moons of Saturn.

To am American, yes. If I lived in England I would be used to that accent, and would be able to hear the difference between Tayla and Taylor.

I actually think that although it sounds a bit like Tayla it seems MORE masculine with a "British" accent. It sounds a lot less spunky which is to me what gives it a more feminine feel when I have to say how I prefer it as a unisex name. No I wouldn't, and I might've been open to the idea in the US but DBF's ex was named Taler, so Taylor being that it sounds the same is out.

Nope

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I just said it about fifty times in my very Englishest accent, while sitting in an English chair in England. And it still sounds like an occupational surname, and nothing like a girls' name at all!

What do you mean by British accent? I'm guessing you mean R.P?
I don't hear the difference myself. When I was in primary school an American girl joined our class and I don't think there was any issue with pronouncing her name.
I'm from England and (other than the above) I haven't encountered any Taylors. I wouldn't use it because it's not a favourite of mine. But I don't think anything should stop you if you like that name. :)

This message was edited 6/7/2010, 9:23 AM

It's feminine to me either way.

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Whether it's in my own local accent or one that makes me hear it more as Tayla, I think it sounds feminine by virtue of belonging to a lot of females. :-P

firstly

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What is a British accent? A Geordie, Liverpudlian, Glaswegian, Received Pronounciation, Northern Welsh? In some accents Taylor can sound a bit like Tayla, but boys still wear the name and a few girls I have met.

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Secondly Taylor doesn't sound masculine or feminine to me. It is an occupational surname and I really dislike it.

It sounds a little feminine when in a British accent, but it still doesn't look that way.

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I wouldn't name my child that if I were in England, or anywhere, because I really don't like it.

Nope. Would use Tayla though! :-)

Hmmm, not sure if Taylor would sound like Tayla in a British accent. And then there are all sorts of British accents. I don't like Tayla much, so I still wouldn't use Taylor, even if I were in England.

I don't think Taylor sounds like Tayla, at all, but I guess it depends on which British accent you're talking about, which part of Britain you're talking about. I guess not Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland since you said England, but their accents are as British as English accents and each of those have a wide variety of regional accents. None of the ones I can think of make Taylor sound like Tayla though. I think it only sounds like that in a very exaggerated RP or transatlantic accents, but few people here actually talk like that.

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I wouldn't use the name, but purely because I don't like the name.

...So why not just use Tayla? :\

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No I wouldn't. If I were in England, I would say "How did I get to England?" and then name my kids the same names I've liked previously. Taylor is not one of them, on either gender (but I find it worse on a girl, regardless of accent. It's just been beaten to death, I know so many Taylors).

I think Taylor sounds feminine either way. I would balance it out with a more traditional middle name, though.

No, it doesn't work that way.

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It still looks and sounds like Taylor. Taylor is a common surname. Tayla is derived from Taylor.

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This message was edited 6/7/2010, 5:12 AM