Ghislaine

[drowning-spirit.livejournal.com]

This name is very new to me - I heard it for the first time the other day.

Ghislaine : French origin, meaning: sweet pledge, gender: female

Opinions?

Comments

[calixbat.livejournal.com]

I would never use it but its not awful.

[coldheartedbabe.livejournal.com]

how do you pronounce it?

[drowning-spirit.livejournal.com]

I wasn't 100% sure actually because I saw the name written down and had to guess when I called out the name but I did a quick google search to check and I think it either "zhees-LAYN" or "Gilaine"

Maybe someone who is french or dutch could help answer?? hehe

[xcuore.livejournal.com]

lol i'm dutch & i'd pronounce it like Zheesh-lèn
its a difficult one ;)

[drowning-spirit.livejournal.com]

thanks for that!!

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Oh, my friends mother pronounces her name Gillen, hard G.

[ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say it as Gillen - the Ghis is automatically associated with the zhees sound in my head.

Guylaine, however, would be Gillen.

[xcuore.livejournal.com]

i know a sliblingset named Germaine and Ghislaine.
tho its a pretty name i wouldnt use it due to the pronouncuation-thingy :)

[depeche810.livejournal.com]

I think it would be pronounced like Geez(hard G)-len. I'm not sure though, I haven't studied French in a long time.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

My friends mum is called Ghislaine.

I don't really like it, but it's not weird to me at all...

[fallingtopieces.livejournal.com]

I have a customer at work whose name is Ghyslaine, which I like better, probably because it's the first time I saw the name.

[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

I love it, but a lot of people are going to pronounce it JIZZ-laine. Which I wouldn't want for my name.

[naturalgoddess.livejournal.com]

I love it, and although I'm from a French background I can't properly write down the way it is pronounced....sorry. But it does have a 'soft G'.

[shyloh.livejournal.com]

I know a man by this name.

[ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com]

Is it Ghislain? Without the e at the end? Because it's not uncommon in French to have boy/girl names that are very similar, such as Ghislain/Ghislaine or François/Françoise etc.