Today I met an...

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

Addeley. At first I thought of Adelie penguins and thought it must have been spelt like that. Pronounced ADD-uh-lee.

It's really grown on me.

WDYT?

Comments

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

Adelie would be cute spelled like the penguins, and as a nickname. Addeley looks messed up. Of course, Adelie is really cutesy and doesn't grow with a person. Adeline, Adelina and Adelaide are all much better.

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

I love Adeline and Adelaide, they are on my list. I didn't think Addeley looked too messed up and I am one of those people that are really particular about spellings. Isn't Adelie as in the penguin pronounced differently?

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

ad·dle

Pronunciation: \ˈa-dəl\
1. Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English adel filth, from Old English adela; akin to Middle Low German adele liquid manure

2. transitive verb
: to throw into confusion : confound
intransitive verb
1 : to become rotten : spoil
2 : to become confused

Addeley is like a weird adverb version of these words...

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

ew! liquid manure! haha

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

I know! Eew! I only knew the second def. until today. Too bad, I really like the name Adele/Adela.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

PS - who is in your LJ pic?

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

oh, cillian murphy. i can't be bothered changing it seeing as i only use lj for baby_names. plus i recognise most users by their picture and appreciate when they don't change it so often!

[arbus.livejournal.com]

adelie is ok. addeley is dumb.

i am not at all a fan of the addy/addie names, though.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I think I would like it better if it was Adelei (add-eh-lay), which looks kind of familiar. I'm not sure if it's a real name or not...

[cure-rocker.livejournal.com]

it's cute but i would have spelled it adalee, in the original spelling there's just too many e's and d's, just kind of redundant.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

I don't dislike it, but it does look more like a last name than a first name.