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Subject: Re: Sighting!
Author: guru   (Authenticated as BBH)
Date: June 20, 2012 at 8:30:12 AM
Reply to: Sighting! by New_Chloe
That would have delighted me as well, and I love Marilla Cuthbert. Oh, how we could all use a daily dose of her prudent Canadian Maritime common sense.

Its aesthetic however, does not quite meet my requirements. The -il part of -illa (and this applies to Camilla, Priscilla, etc.) has always repelled me, perhaps because people around me tend to produce the L sound with their throats (like someone from Moscow) instead of the tops of their mouths (which would be more pleasing to me).

The same could be said of the L in Felix (thanks again, Sullivan Entertainment).

People need to be more conscientious with their L's.



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