View Message

This is a reply within a larger thread: view the whole thread

Re: Make a favorite alphabet (and a least favorite, if you want to)
I know we've discussed before how vastly different our naming styles are, but here is what I do like/love* from your first list:
Ellen
James*
Michael
Opal -Okay, I actually don't like this, but it's so similiar to Mabel that I wonder how you can like it but call Mabel a "servant name. Or old, obese chain-smoking gum-snapping greasy-spoon waitress." Surely that image is brought to mind with Opal as well then.
Phillip -Sometimes I like Phillip and sometimes I don't and I don't know why, but today it's okay. Not excited about it, but it's okay.
Robin
William
Archived Thread - replies disabled
vote up1

Replies

Opal and Mabel?I don't see how they're similar. I mean, they end in the same ul sound but that's all I can see.Anyway, Opal didn't get a silly jump-rope rhyme like Mabel, Mabel, set the table. And Opal doesn't show up as the stereotypical frozy old lady name like Mabel does.
vote up1
It does to me, but to each their own..-and though they say it's possible to me, i don't see how it's probable-

This message was edited 10/4/2012, 1:20 AM

vote up1