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Help[Opinions] A "Danish" name I've always been in love with.
The name is Regitze, of the older Rikiza (Polish).
Actually the right Danish spellings are Regitse / Regisse, but I've been loving the German Regitze way the most, since I heard it in a famous Danish TV serie as a young teen. It's been known here, in Denmark, since the middleage (1400).
It's pronounced: RÉ-git-séh.
It may have an edgy sound to it, but that's what I love about it.
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Actually the right Danish spellings are Regitse / Regisse, but I've been loving the German Regitze way the most, since I heard it in a famous Danish TV serie as a young teen. It's been known here, in Denmark, since the middleage (1400).
It's pronounced: RÉ-git-séh.
It may have an edgy sound to it, but that's what I love about it.
Wdyt?
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My only concern is that every time someone reads this name they will not know how to pronounce it, and every time it is spoken they will not know how to spell it. (Unless, of course, you live in Denmark.)
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Ah, Matador
The only time I've heard it was in the TV series Matador, very popular in Sweden too. Was Rigitze not the daughter of the wimpy Maud?
"You sought a flower and found a fruit. You sought a spring and found a sea. You sought a woman and found a soul. You are disappointed." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
The only time I've heard it was in the TV series Matador, very popular in Sweden too. Was Rigitze not the daughter of the wimpy Maud?
"You sought a flower and found a fruit. You sought a spring and found a sea. You sought a woman and found a soul. You are disappointed." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
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I wouldn't put this name on my favs list but I do give it my approval, It has some charm.
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I've never heard of it, but you sold me with the phrase, "(i)t may have an edgy sound to it, but that's what I love about it." You should be in sales.
Hard "g" sounds are not always loveable in my experience. It took time for Dagmar to grow on me. But now the name is in my heart and won't go away easily. I can understand your love for the name Regitze. (I think I prefer the Regitse spelling, but I haven't really considered it enough to make a formal pronouncement on the matter.)
Hard "g" sounds are not always loveable in my experience. It took time for Dagmar to grow on me. But now the name is in my heart and won't go away easily. I can understand your love for the name Regitze. (I think I prefer the Regitse spelling, but I haven't really considered it enough to make a formal pronouncement on the matter.)
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I don't know, if you'd ever heard how to pronounce Dagmar?
If you haven't then here's the way for that:
It's pronounced like dav-mar, so the 'g' is entirely silent here. At least here in Denmark.
I really like the name Dagmar too, since it's a good old royal name here, and I'm a full-blooded Royalist (that's what supporters of the royalty is called in Denmark).
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If you haven't then here's the way for that:
It's pronounced like dav-mar, so the 'g' is entirely silent here. At least here in Denmark.
I really like the name Dagmar too, since it's a good old royal name here, and I'm a full-blooded Royalist (that's what supporters of the royalty is called in Denmark).
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Thanks. I've only ever heard it pronounced with the hard "g." But Dav-mar is gorgeous too.
Do other Scandinavian countries pronounce it the same way?
Do other Scandinavian countries pronounce it the same way?
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I would pronounce it with a very hard G
DAGG-mar as in "daggmask" (earthworm). I'm Swedish and I think the Danish has a softer pronounciationa (mushy we say about the Danish pronounciation in Sweden, unkind neighbours as we are ;)
Dagmar sounds very old-fashioned to me, I prefer Damaris which to me sounds exotic.
"You sought a flower and found a fruit. You sought a spring and found a sea. You sought a woman and found a soul. You are disappointed." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
DAGG-mar as in "daggmask" (earthworm). I'm Swedish and I think the Danish has a softer pronounciationa (mushy we say about the Danish pronounciation in Sweden, unkind neighbours as we are ;)
Dagmar sounds very old-fashioned to me, I prefer Damaris which to me sounds exotic.
"You sought a flower and found a fruit. You sought a spring and found a sea. You sought a woman and found a soul. You are disappointed." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
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ROFL! Mushy?
Well, okay I can live with that description of us. ;-P
We use to say here, that you almost sing the words and names, and that I really like. But your right, we do have a much more softer way, of pronouncing names and words. Then again, we seems to be spelling almost everything entirely different, but somehow we always seems to understand each other. In every way on that matter.
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Well, okay I can live with that description of us. ;-P
We use to say here, that you almost sing the words and names, and that I really like. But your right, we do have a much more softer way, of pronouncing names and words. Then again, we seems to be spelling almost everything entirely different, but somehow we always seems to understand each other. In every way on that matter.
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"Grötig" in Swedish
But this may be that we Swedes have such a hard time understanding Danish. The Danish have it easier to understand Swedish. It cannot (God forbid :) be b/c the Danish are more intelligent; ergo it is b/c they speak mushy.
Yes, we speak sing-songy but we think the Norwegians talk even more sing-songy.
"You sought a flower and found a fruit. You sought a spring and found a sea. You sought a woman and found a soul. You are disappointed." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
But this may be that we Swedes have such a hard time understanding Danish. The Danish have it easier to understand Swedish. It cannot (God forbid :) be b/c the Danish are more intelligent; ergo it is b/c they speak mushy.
Yes, we speak sing-songy but we think the Norwegians talk even more sing-songy.
"You sought a flower and found a fruit. You sought a spring and found a sea. You sought a woman and found a soul. You are disappointed." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)
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Why don't we move this to The Lounge?
Then we don't hog this board. ;-)
I'll give my reply over there.
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Then we don't hog this board. ;-)
I'll give my reply over there.
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