{"id":10614,"date":"2014-11-07T10:28:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T14:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=10614"},"modified":"2015-07-25T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T11:46:48","slug":"baby-girl-m0ntrel-sister-to-kyle-and-joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2014\/11\/07\/baby-girl-m0ntrel-sister-to-kyle-and-joshua\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl M0ntre@l, Sister to Kyle and Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Swistle! It is finally my turn to email you, as I have read your blog for a long and time love love love your advice. We are expecting a baby girl in March of 2015 and although we\u2019ve had a list since before we started even THINKING about kids (literally, it was something we discussed on our first date, what a topic, huh\u2014\u201cWhat are you planning on naming your future children?!\u201d) we now cannot make a decision. I have two step sons, Kyle and Joshua (Josh.) This is my first, and we\u2019re super excited to be adding a girl. I\u2019m named after my grandmother, Mary Louise, and carry her middle name. I\u2019d like to continue this trend. My mother\u2019s middle is Lynne. Here\u2019s where our dilemma comes in\u2026<\/p>\n

We love the name Eleanor. But, does Eleanor Lynne sounds too lin-lin to you? Some people hear Ella-nor and others hear El-lynn-or. Do you think it is too repetitive to use Lynne as a middle? We\u2019ve also considered Amelia, Hannah (He loves, I\u2019m ehh) Harriet and Charlotte. I don\u2019t love them as much as I love Eleanor, but I could be swayed. We\u2019re also super open to other suggestions!<\/p>\n

I pinky swear that if you help name our baby, I will absolutely update you and the readers as soon as she arrives!!<\/p>\n

Our last name is M0ntre@l, pronounced exactly like the city. For the record, we\u2019re Dave and Rachel. Thank you in advance!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I do notice the repeating “lin” sound, but I’m not sure how quickly I would have noticed it if you hadn’t mentioned it, and it doesn’t bother me. There was recently a news story about a little girl named Brooklyn Lynn, and that is a much more serious repeating-“lin” issue—and yet after a moment of noticing it, I found I shrugged and thought “Who cares?” If their favorite name is Brooklyn and they want to honor a Lynn or even they just LIKE the name Lynn, is there any reason in the whole wide world they shouldn’t go right ahead and do that? No, there really isn’t.<\/p>\n

Coming from that line of thought to your Eleanor Lynne issue helped me to clarify things. It doesn’t seem like a problem, and in fact I suspect some people would find the repeating “lin” sound increased the appeal of the name—and as you’ve noted, some people wouldn’t hear a repeating “lin” sound at all. I also see the potential for cute around-the-house nicknames such as Linnie-Lynne.<\/p>\n

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Name update!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Swistle! I’m Rachel. I wrote to you last year after learning we were having a girl. Eleanor Jane arrived on April 7th (TWO WEEKS LATE!) and just reminded me that I had yet to share her picture and name with you even though I promised.<\/p>\n

Thank you and your readers for your suggestions!! We love her name and it fits her perfectly.<\/p>\n

I hope you’re ready to help name #4 someday!<\/p>\n

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Hi Swistle! It is finally my turn to email you, as I have read your blog for a long and time love love love your advice. We are expecting a baby girl in March of 2015 and although we\u2019ve had a list since before we started even THINKING about kids (literally, it was something we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2Lc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11505,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions\/11505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}