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Subject: Re: Enid?
Author: RoxStar   (Authenticated as RoxStar)
Date: June 25, 2012 at 4:08:22 PM
Reply to: Enid? by Antique_Cherub
I don't think it sounds very nice at all.

There is a book by Lois Lowry called "Taking Care of Terrific" and the main character is a girl named Enid. She goes on at some length to explain why she hates the name Enid: because so many ugly words end in id. Humid, rancid, sordid, viscid, squalid, horrid.

At the very end of the book, she thinks of "splendid" and maybe changes her opinion of the name, but stil..

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