If you have a daughter named Isabella/Isobel

[Anonymous]

would she ever want to go by Belly? I'm watching The Summer I Turned Pretty and just can't imagine going by Belly past about age four.

[Anonymous]

I cringe every time my girls mention her name from that book/show. So stupid.

[Anonymous]

There are plenty of Isabelle and Isabella’s in my kids’ school. They are all Bella or Izzy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cringe every time my girls mention her name from that book/show. So stupid.

+1 billion

[Anonymous]

Belly is a better name than Isabella or Bella or Izzy.

[Anonymous]

No it’s not fioon

[Anonymous]

My childhood friend went by Belly and it just stuck.

[Anonymous]

I find Izzy worse

[Anonymous]

I hate it.

I assume it was a childhood nickname that just stuck. Note--she goes by Isabel in Paris. But then she tells Conrad to call her Belly.

[Anonymous]

We have a third-grade Isabella.

We are a bilingual dual-citizenship Hispanic family. She goes by “Bella-Bella” or the version discussed below at home. Her school is also about 1/3 made up of dual citizenship Latin American English/spanish-speaking students.

In Spanish it is pronounced "ee-sah-BEH-lah”.

“ee-sah” is a common short form in Latin America. That has stuck with her at school to the point that even the high schoolers know her as “ee-sah”. She isn’t particularly fond of it, but she’s accepted it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a third-grade Isabella.

We are a bilingual dual-citizenship Hispanic family. She goes by “Bella-Bella” or the version discussed below at home. Her school is also about 1/3 made up of dual citizenship Latin American English/spanish-speaking students.

In Spanish it is pronounced "ee-sah-BEH-lah”.

“ee-sah” is a common short form in Latin America. That has stuck with her at school to the point that even the high schoolers know her as “ee-sah”. She isn’t particularly fond of it, but she’s accepted it.

Similarly, in Italian, it’s pronounced “ee-zah-BEH-lah”. And Isa (pronounced “ee-zah” rhymes with Pisa) is also a nickname for it.

[Anonymous]

No dog in this fight, but I love the name Isabel or Isabella. So pretty in full. I have my daughter a similar name and didn’t prefer the nickname, but her elementary school nicknames stuck for some time and it actually grew on me. Kids have a way of forming a name to themselves. It’s endearing.

[Anonymous]

That’s actually horrifying, no.

[Anonymous]

Dear lord calling someone belly as a name is so awful.

[Anonymous]

I hate it so much it made the show unwatchable for me