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I was reading about Merilee Rush, and I realized I really like Merilee. It's kind of corny, but I think it's sweet...so, sweet and corny, like caramel corn. ;)
Anyway, WDYT?
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire." -Charles Bukowski
Anyway, WDYT?
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire." -Charles Bukowski
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This is a name that has really grown on me in recent months and I'm *this* close to adding it to my lists.
My fiance's late grandmother was Merilee, and he said he would like us to consider it as a middle name in the future, should we ever be blessed with daughters. I told him I would definitely be happy to use it as a middle name, but I now find myself warming to it as a first name!
My fiance's late grandmother was Merilee, and he said he would like us to consider it as a middle name in the future, should we ever be blessed with daughters. I told him I would definitely be happy to use it as a middle name, but I now find myself warming to it as a first name!
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I like it. It's sorta 20th-century mediocre, like Jerilyn, but I still like it. I pronounce it MAIR-ih-LEE, so it doesn't seem to me like it sounds too much like "merrily."
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I was a student with a girl named Merilee, and she pronounced it as you do. We didn't, I don't think, connect it with "merrily".She was a tall, beautiful, serious and studious girl, so didn't give off the image of "cute".
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I'm torn between the fact that it's pretty and the fact that it's corny because it sounds like the word "merrily." I can't see the corniness as a positive, but I do learn towards ignoring the corniness and endorsing it because it's pretty.
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ditto, except...
except I probably wouldn't endorse it. I'd maybe pick something else and use it as a nickname if I wanted to bring out it's cuteness. But it's a little too cutesy I think for an adult.
Related/unrelated note: one name I really wanted to use for a girl when I was younger (maybe 9? 12?) - though no longer - was Merritt Leigh (nn Merry/Merri, but Merilee would certainly be another good one!) haha
except I probably wouldn't endorse it. I'd maybe pick something else and use it as a nickname if I wanted to bring out it's cuteness. But it's a little too cutesy I think for an adult.
Related/unrelated note: one name I really wanted to use for a girl when I was younger (maybe 9? 12?) - though no longer - was Merritt Leigh (nn Merry/Merri, but Merilee would certainly be another good one!) haha
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I remember talking to a customer named Merrily at my former job, so it's been used, and I think the use is not confined to only a very few, although I'm sure not to the extent that you could call it at all frequent, either. I'm just mentioning it because your use of the words "would be" seems to imply that it isn't used.
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I wish! Just about anything that can possibly be used, gets used. For instance, Zimbabwean parents are distressingly original in their naming - a couple of weeks ago I spotted an adult male, making a statement to the media so clearly a person of some stature, whose given name is Psychology. Makes Merrily (and even Gloomily) seem positively mainstream.
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I think of merrily, as in "Merrily we roll along, roll along, roll along..." But maybe thats not how its pronounced? Is it more like Mary-Lee?
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