Lettice/Letitia/Leticia

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Do you like Lettice (leh-teese)? DH has raised the concern that people may try to pronounce it like lettuce (which honestly doesn’t bother me much because people mispronounce a lot of simple names). Letitia and Leticia are also options for that reason.

I would! Those names are so frumpy and ugly.

Lettice is pretty, which is why it survived and they didn’t (if indeed they existed).

Some names are like Marmite; doesn’t make them ‘ludicrous’.

I love the name Lettice. I know it was used in Tudor times but I always associate it with the 1920’s to 1930’s and Agatha Christie books. I think of it in a similar bracket as names like Violet or virtue names that have declined such as Charity or Clemency.

i like it a lot, but just felt, as this thread shows, that people would not have heard of it and would focus on the Lettuce word they do know.

We have discussed it as a cat or other pet name instead..

Goodness me, just call the girl Lily Rose, Isla Grace or Ava May like everybody else.

Oh lovey, they’re pronounced exactly the same phonetically. See attached from OED.

I do love it when a poster wants to show their ‘educational and intellectual’ superiority but actually exposes their lack of it. Gives me a morning giggle.

Lettice is fine.

Leticia and Laetitia are nice, variations imo just no.

Lettice just sounds wrong, too close to lettuce and to lattice.

I thought it WAS Lettuce.

😂

I actually know a Rocket, but you could try the spelling Roquette.

Arugula, Radicchio and Endive also sit well together.

Oh I don't think Marmite is a good choice.

You could try insisting on Lett-eet-chay pronunciation

Imagine if her best friend was Tamara

@NormasArse , is that Mar-meet or Mar-might?

There’s unusual names
and then there’s just stupid ones
my names lettice nick name leafy
just dont

It's not a stupid name.

Lollo Rosso anyone?

Arugula sticks in my throat.

Endive is the way ahead op

Sidestepping the ‘sh’ sound in favour of the landmine of being a girl and having a name with TITS in it

@canklesmctacotits I just clocked your username too - EPIC 😄

Boris daughter or Eastenders actor - hmm, I think I can't really like either name. One of Boris's other children is Romy which I do like

Oh that's short for Romaine.

I quite like a hyphen op: Lettuce-Pray.

Even the “right” pronunciation sounds like hyacinth bucket pronouncing lettuce. Just no, it’ll be the pregnancy hormones.