It obviously has an old world feel to it. I think it is neat to bring back historic/rarely used names. It is a very strong name and just like Alfred I think people would likely give someone with the name Aelred the nick name Red. Which I find quite fun. As for the pronunciation I am a retard when it comes to that, so I would sound it out and say AIL-red like most of the others, but you could pronounce it ELL-red which I like better than ALL-red.
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Date: 2007-06-15 03:11 pm (UTC)