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Lucy or Lucie?

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PesteredButHappy · 25/05/2013 22:00

Which would you choose?

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Sirzy · 25/05/2013 22:02

Lucy.

To me that will always be the proper way, I am not keen on changing to a 'modern' spelling.

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WhereBeThatBlackbirdTo · 25/05/2013 22:02

Lucy

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pootlebug · 25/05/2013 22:02

Lucy

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Thurlow · 25/05/2013 22:03

Lucy. Lucie is nice, but she'll spend her whole life explaining that it's "Lucie with an i e."

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Smartiepants79 · 25/05/2013 22:03

Lucy

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Wishfulmakeupping · 25/05/2013 22:04

With a y

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LEMisdisappointed · 25/05/2013 22:05

Lucy Grin

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BriansBrain · 25/05/2013 22:07

Lucy although I am biased.

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AmandaPayneNeedsANap · 25/05/2013 22:08

Lucy

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mum2jakie · 25/05/2013 22:08

Lucy

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PesteredButHappy · 25/05/2013 22:09

Hmm. I thought that might be the case. I want to spell it 'Lucie' because it would be after a character in a book that I love.

But people won't know that, will they? They will just think I'm a twerp spelling it wrong Sad

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Fuckwittery · 25/05/2013 22:11

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Thurlow · 25/05/2013 22:11

I think it would be hard to get the explanation into conversation every time you introduce you baby Smile

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PesteredButHappy · 25/05/2013 22:12

No, no french heritage to claim. Just a soppy connection to a book and the name I love. In my head, if I go with 'Lucy' it isn't the name, even though when you say it it is exactly the same sound if that makes any rational sense at all?

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waikikamookau · 25/05/2013 22:13

lucy
my pet unreasonable hate is misspelled names,

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NeverBeenToMe · 25/05/2013 22:14

I have a Lucie, although name and spelling chosen by exH. Isn't there one in Mrs Tiggywinkle? (A Lucie, not an exH Wink )

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Lurleene · 25/05/2013 22:15

Speaking as someone who committed her son to a lifetime of saying 'Tomas without an H' - I would go with Lucy.

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Bowlersarm · 25/05/2013 22:16

Lucy

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pooka · 25/05/2013 22:16

Lucy

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PesteredButHappy · 25/05/2013 22:17

Yes, that is the book, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle.

When does an accepted alternate spelling become a wrong spelling?

Beatrix Potter wrote Mrs Tiggy-Winkle in 1905 in the Lake District so I don't think of that spelling as a misspelling or a modern twist.

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defineme · 25/05/2013 22:18

Lucy, but then I have a ds named after a character in favourite play: he is resigned to a life saying 'no it's not short for anything' because it's an unusual abbreviation of a common name.

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squoosh · 25/05/2013 22:23

I'd pick Lucy but if you're naming her after a 'Lucie' well then use that spelling.

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mummsy2be · 25/05/2013 23:00

Lucy

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Alisvolatpropiis · 25/05/2013 23:09

Lucy.

I see ie ending names as being very nicknamey. Even when they actually aren't, Sophie for example. I suppose it must just be something I don't like aesthetically speaking.

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squoosh · 25/05/2013 23:14

Lucie reminds me of Lucie Mabel Atwell.

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