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Help[Opinions] Oscar Wilde's favourite names
I recently rediscovered this questionnaire Oscar Wilde completed during his university days:
The whole document is very interesting in general, I'd recommend giving it a read if you can get past the handwriting and low resolution.
Anyway, when I saw the [favourite] names, male and female? I was absolutely thrilled, but I couldn't read them for the life of me. A follower on one of my social media accounts was kind enough to transcribe them for me, so here they are:
Eucharis: I know what you're thinking - very Catholic, or a bit like a name of a disease or tropical plant. Apparently, it comes from the late 18th century opera Euthyme et Eucharis.
Florence: probably to honour the city, as he mentioned he'd like to live there.
Cecil: presumably SES-əl, it's similar in sound to one of his son's names, and Cecily Bracknell (what a name!) was a character in "The Importance of Being Earnest".
WDYT? And as a bonus, what do you think of his son's names: Cyril and Vyvyan?
masculine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124079
feminine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124080
The whole document is very interesting in general, I'd recommend giving it a read if you can get past the handwriting and low resolution.
Anyway, when I saw the [favourite] names, male and female? I was absolutely thrilled, but I couldn't read them for the life of me. A follower on one of my social media accounts was kind enough to transcribe them for me, so here they are:
Eucharis: I know what you're thinking - very Catholic, or a bit like a name of a disease or tropical plant. Apparently, it comes from the late 18th century opera Euthyme et Eucharis.
Florence: probably to honour the city, as he mentioned he'd like to live there.
Cecil: presumably SES-əl, it's similar in sound to one of his son's names, and Cecily Bracknell (what a name!) was a character in "The Importance of Being Earnest".
WDYT? And as a bonus, what do you think of his son's names: Cyril and Vyvyan?
masculine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124079
feminine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124080
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