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Thandie
Opinions on Thandie? You can change the spelling, but I am interested in your take on the name itself too.Do you think Clarisse, Nadine and Thandie works? Hypothetically.
Any alternatives that you think give off the same feel?
Much obliged folks.
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Honestly, I think that it sounds incredibly juvenile compared to your other girls. I can't see it on a kid older than 10. Other alternatives that give the same feel to me are Chloe, Zoe, Emilie, and Aimee, but I can see those aging better.
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Where I live, it would be Thandi, pronounced TAHNdi and meaning 'love'. I like it and am very used to seeing and hearing it - there are lots of names (Thandiwe, Thandeka etc) that it's used as a nn for.How would you pronounce it: with a T or a TH? The Th sound would make me think of a lithping Thandra!
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Hard T. It seems like a mature choice to me, but I think it might be too foreign for American eyes. I like it still.
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Not sure how to pronounce it, but don't like either way. If the th is like think or thistle, then it sounds like Sandy with a lisp. If it's a hard t, then it sounds like baby-talk for Candy. Either way, the name seems very babyish and doesn't seem to go well at all with the grown-up Clarice and Nadine.
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