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[purple-dragon88.livejournal.com]

WDYT of Elseca for a girl? It's special to me because it's the name of the village where my dad grew up (minus the r on the end) and recently I was thinking that sounds like a nice name.
I think it sounds like a combo of Elsie and Jessica.

Also WDYT of Hessie? It was my paternal grandmother's name.

My uncle passed away recently so I guess I'm really thinking about names with ties to that side of the family.

Comments

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I would only use it as a middle.

[turtleohs.livejournal.com]

I dont hate it, but I dont really like it either I'm kind of unsure about it in general.

As far as Hessie - my first thought was "Hussie" which is sometimes slang for like... whore or slut?? Eeh, sorry that sounds so mean :(

[regn-espere.livejournal.com]

Elseca wont be easy to pronounce. I've been staring at it for about 5 minutes and I'm still wondering if it's pronounced "elz - ecka"? Maybe I'm just an idiot but I have no clue how you would pronounce that because I'm not familiar with that town.

[mommyaubrey.livejournal.com]

i was thinking it's pronounced El-Sec-uh. i don't mind it, not my style, but theres much worse. as for Hessie my mind went to Hussie.. :\

[purple-dragon88.livejournal.com]

Yep it's pronounced pretty much like that.

I hadn't thought of the whole Hessie/Hussie thing probably 'cos I haven't heard that expression used much in England.

[pinktambourine.livejournal.com]

I like Elseca. It's definitely unique, but I don't consider it to be too "out there."

[purple-dragon88.livejournal.com]

Cool, that's what I thought.

[frost.livejournal.com]

I don't like it. If I had to use it, I'd make it the middle.
Hessie just makes me think of hussie.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

Ditto to Hessie=Hussie, though my first thought was of Hessian Germany.

I dig the sound of Elseca but it just makes me think "the dryness."

[purple-dragon88.livejournal.com]

"the dryness." sorry IDGI?

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

My Spanish isn't super great but "El seca" is "the dry/dryness" I believe.

Not that it's a super obvious meaning, nor a particularly terrible one.