Pet names

[ailbhe]

One of the reasons I suddenly decided I didn't like the name "Astrid" partway through my pregnancy is because I thought it would be difficult to make into squishy pet names or diminutives. Linnea is Linnea-nea-noo, shortening to Nea, and Emer is Eemshie-weemshie-wumsie-eemshie-weemshie-woo (third generation pet names for the absolute win!), shortening to Eem.

Also, it just plain isn't as euphonious (thanks radegund as Linnea or Emer. It's less feminine sounding, more clunky, like Enid or Edna or other names with thunky Ds in them.

I've decided I like that aspect of it. And there is too a pet name for her. She's "A strid, a strid, a strudel!" and that rhymes with all sorts of things like noodle and poodle and oodles of snoogles and things, so that's fine.

Just as well; it's too late to change it now!

(Om nom nom babies!)

Comments

[ailbhe]

I think she may well be "Astrid, known as Trudy" before she's two, the way these things evolve. I also call her Starchild, but that's not the same as a name-sound-based one.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Which syllable do you stress her name on?

I would have guessed "ASS-trid" (with the first syllable rhyming with "gas", not with "pass", for those who make a difference), but given "a strid, a strid, a strudel" and "known as Trudy" I wonder whether you pronounce it as "a-STRID"?

[ailbhe]

A-strid. I just said it several time sti check and the S is with strid, not as.

[pne.livejournal.com]

the S is with strid, not as.

Makes sense. The pronunciation of the "a" is still as in "as", though? (As opposed to, say, "a" as in "a house", or "ay" as in the name of the letter A, or "ah" as in "father".)

[ailbhe]

It's a as in as, or a ha, or a house, but not hay or father.