What do you think of ... Abigail Amel...

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Registered: 09-29-2005
What do you think of ... Abigail Amel...
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Wed, 01-25-2006 - 10:53am

What do you think of ... Abigail Amelia McCormick?



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Registered: 01-21-2005
Wed, 01-25-2006 - 11:18am
I love it, very pretty!! :)
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Registered: 01-10-2006
Wed, 01-25-2006 - 12:44pm
Beautiful name, I like Abigail with your last name. However, I kind of feel that the MN Amelia leads to a mouthful (with your last name). But if you love it, I'd stick with it. I guess it's not often that someone's full name is said outloud anyways. Basically at graduation :) Good luck!
Jenn
EDD 3/18/06
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Registered: 12-28-2005
Wed, 01-25-2006 - 1:49pm

LOVE both names, and together they are darling! My hubby would never go for Amelia, or it would be on my list!

good luck!

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Registered: 06-14-2003
Wed, 01-25-2006 - 2:31pm
VERY pretty!
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Registered: 12-20-2005
Wed, 01-25-2006 - 2:42pm
I think both Abigail and Amelia are beautiful names. I am not sure if I like them together. I don't know if it's the a, uh sound or the l's. Both names go great with your ln. I don't think Abagail Amelia is horrible, at all. If you like it use it.
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Registered: 12-09-2005
Wed, 01-25-2006 - 8:05pm
It's okay, but I don't think it has the same type of feel as your other daughters' names. I really prefer Abigail Isla.

                             
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Registered: 09-29-2005
Wed, 01-25-2006 - 8:35pm

Sorry, nat, but dh nixed our entire list in favor of starting over completely! (There is another post with more detail on this). I think he felt bad about doing it, though, because he suggested Amelia as a sort of a concession to me. He knew I had liked it when we were considering first names a while back, and though he didn't like it for a first name - mainly because none of the nns worked with our ln at all and he preferred Abigail anyway - he actually thinks it would work great as a mn with Abigail. Thus the reasons for my poll. ;)

~Kelli


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Registered: 01-26-2006
Thu, 01-26-2006 - 9:01am

You would be better off switching the names, in my opinion, to Amelia Abigail McCormick, and here's why I think that:

I have said this combination over and over trying to put my finger on why it sounds so awkward and it comes down to the fact that when it's said all at once, the "a" sounds that begin and end Amelia have a very strange effect.

The name becomes something like Abigaila Meliam Icormick. All the syllables fall apart because the stress on the middle syllable of Amelia surrounded by the two very soft "a" sounds pulls the name to pieces. The consonants at the end of Abigail and beginning of McCormick want to stick in the center. Abigail Amelia is just sing-song enough in cadence for the effect to double when said out loud. AB-i-GAIL-a-MEL-ia.

Amelia Abigail doesn't have that problem. But if you're tied to Abigail for a first name, maybe try another form of Amelia. Abigail Delia or Abigail Amelie have much more natural cadences.