{"id":14637,"date":"2020-04-01T21:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T01:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14637"},"modified":"2020-04-01T21:00:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T01:00:50","slug":"baby-girl-emayiss-without-the-e-sister-to-josephine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2020\/04\/01\/baby-girl-emayiss-without-the-e-sister-to-josephine\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Emayiss-without-the-E, Sister to Josephine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,<\/p>\n

This August we’re expecting our second child. We call Josephine (1 1\/2) by her full name, though we are open to nicknames developing (my personal favorite being Posie).<\/p>\n

For daughter #2, our top choice is Alice.<\/p>\n

I’m wary of the way Alice sounds with our last name (pronounced like emmaus-without-the-E). I feel like the repetitive “iss” sound makes it sound oddly scientific\/Latin, especially with the matching number of syllables.<\/p>\n

We love the name Elise, but I would want to use it as a nickname for Elisabeth, a family name (both maternal great-grandmother and godmother\/aunt of the baby are named Elizabeth).<\/p>\n

My husband is completely against the idea of deciding on a nickname from birth\/giving one name but having them go by another.<\/p>\n

So it comes down to Elisabeth or Alice. Or, is it just Elisabeth? I keep struggling with the sound of the full name with Alice! Am I imagining an issue where there isn\u2019t one?<\/p>\n

Thanks for any input and advice!<\/p>\n

Best,<\/p>\n

Lauren<\/p>\n

Extra info:
\n– We\u2019re a Belgian-American family, living in Belgium. Classic names tend to sound good in both English and Flemish.
\n– Josephine is named after her paternal great-grandmother
\n– We like Julie, but don\u2019t want two J-names
\n– We like Clementine and Olivia, but don\u2019t feel like they\u2019re right for this baby
\n– The middle name(s, we give two) don\u2019t need to be considered
\n– we hope to have three children<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

I began by looking up how to pronounce Emmaus, and for those of you in the same boat, it’s roughly em-MAY-us or eh-MAY-iss, that’s the gist of it.<\/p>\n

With that surname (minus the first syllable), I don’t like the sound of either Alice or Elise: the S-sound of the endings just hits my ear very wrong, especially with Alice where the vowel sound also matches, making something close to a rhyme. So my definite choice among the options is Elisabeth without calling her Elise. And I think Elisabeth is terrific with the name Josephine. And I love that it is honoring two women in your family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle, This August we’re expecting our second child. We call Josephine (1 1\/2) by her full name, though we are open to nicknames developing (my personal favorite being Posie). For daughter #2, our top choice is Alice. I’m wary of the way Alice sounds with our last name (pronounced like emmaus-without-the-E). I feel like […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3O5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637","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=14637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14638,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637\/revisions\/14638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}