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Re: Dorcas v. Tabitha....
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You can't really consider Dorcas's sound without the dork connection. It's too obvious. Dorcas is ugly, in my and most people's opinion, precisely because of the dork sound, which would sound ugly even if dork wasn't a word; it sounds like a sound effect the Three Stooges might have used.Tabitha is much better. It may be an old name, but it feels much more up-to-date, and is not exclusively associated with Bewitched; same with Samantha.
I don't actually like Tabitha all that much, because of the th sound which I tend to find unappealing, and because it seems like a cat name, but I don't have to think for a minute before I say I'd much rather be a Tabitha than a Dorcas.I think, therefore I judge.
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