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HelpRe: "Names hip Londoners are calling their kids"
in reply to a message by Caroline
Candida! I once posted about Candida long ago, because I like it but was afraid it was reminiscent of a yeast infection, and almost everyone, as I recall, said that it was indeed too reminiscent of a yeast infection. Unfortunate that is true, because it's pretty and spunky.
I also like:
Elodie
Martha
Clemency
Maud -- I used to think this was really ugly, but lately it's seemed more ugly-with-charm, like Gretchen and Bridget
Cosima
Althea -- but Alethea is better
Virgil
Lysander
Hal -- okay, but this should be a nickname
Winston
The rest, no.
I also like:
Elodie
Martha
Clemency
Maud -- I used to think this was really ugly, but lately it's seemed more ugly-with-charm, like Gretchen and Bridget
Cosima
Althea -- but Alethea is better
Virgil
Lysander
Hal -- okay, but this should be a nickname
Winston
The rest, no.
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"I'm sorry, Janice, I can't do that ..."
"I can't be Hal as a nickname, because that isn't how hip Londoners do it."
"I can't be Hal as a nickname, because that isn't how hip Londoners do it."
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To me, Maude is totally ugly and without charm. Gretchen isn't ugly to me, and it's the name that puts me in mind of a chubby blonde girl with fat cheeks and pigtails and a pinafore dress. Bridget seems now to be a fairly upper-crust Irish name in the US, more popular a generation ago than it is now. It always made me think of a kind of sad, sullen, disheveled kind of girl.
Gretchen, Heidi and Marie make a cute sister set.
Maude would be sisters with Ethel and Hilda.
Bridget would be sisters with Colleen and Kathryn.
Gretchen, Heidi and Marie make a cute sister set.
Maude would be sisters with Ethel and Hilda.
Bridget would be sisters with Colleen and Kathryn.
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Ha, my name is Heidi (well, Heidi-Joy)and I would love to have a sister named Gretchen. Marie would be the odd one out there, even though it matches well, for the origin. I would guess that Gretchen, Heidi and Marise would work better. Though - that was a good set.
Maude, Ethel and Hilda are dead on - though Helen, Edna or Blanche would fit too.
Bridget and Colleen... I seriously know a sibset. No idea if there is a Kathryn in the family though.
Maude is hard to place because it's becoming hip, so my previous opinion that it was fuddy-duddy is being currently redefined.
Gretchen is just so foreign for my small town, but it's slowing becoming sexy-european.
Maude, Ethel and Hilda are dead on - though Helen, Edna or Blanche would fit too.
Bridget and Colleen... I seriously know a sibset. No idea if there is a Kathryn in the family though.
Maude is hard to place because it's becoming hip, so my previous opinion that it was fuddy-duddy is being currently redefined.
Gretchen is just so foreign for my small town, but it's slowing becoming sexy-european.
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the one Gretchen I knew ...
Was a cute little black dachshund.
But there was a pretty girl named Greta who used to live across the street from my parents-in-law.
Was a cute little black dachshund.
But there was a pretty girl named Greta who used to live across the street from my parents-in-law.
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Biddy would never fly here ...
As it is the common name for baby chickens, and is also widely used as a euphemism for another animal word that begins with b.
As it is the common name for baby chickens, and is also widely used as a euphemism for another animal word that begins with b.
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What's the French pronunciation of Maude?
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