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HelpRe: "Classic" names...not.
in reply to a message by LMS
...Hum. So I like Rhett and Carter, Ty isn't bad (prefer it as a nickname, and I prefer Tai overall), and I like Evangelina (much prefer Evangeline, though), but those double I's throw me for a loop.
Justice is kind of cool for a boy or as a nifty middle name for a girl. I prefer Justus on a guy, but I wonder if people will think that's just a trendy misspelling so I'm always on the fence about it.
Ville is cute! It'd probably be mispronounced as "vile" in English-speaking areas, though. I prefer Viljo.
As for the rest of the names...I honestly wouldn't care if they all fell off the face of the Earth. I wonder how anyone could consider these to be "classics"? Were they just trolling? Because it's hard to believe that so many people could be so...wrong.
Justice is kind of cool for a boy or as a nifty middle name for a girl. I prefer Justus on a guy, but I wonder if people will think that's just a trendy misspelling so I'm always on the fence about it.
Ville is cute! It'd probably be mispronounced as "vile" in English-speaking areas, though. I prefer Viljo.
As for the rest of the names...I honestly wouldn't care if they all fell off the face of the Earth. I wonder how anyone could consider these to be "classics"? Were they just trolling? Because it's hard to believe that so many people could be so...wrong.
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About the "double I"
I know that a double-I in a name is common in Finnish and Estonian (Iisakki, Katariina, etc.), so it could just be a Finnish or Estonian spelling of Evangeline.
I know that a double-I in a name is common in Finnish and Estonian (Iisakki, Katariina, etc.), so it could just be a Finnish or Estonian spelling of Evangeline.
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I doubt it's a common name in Finland or Estonia anyway, even if the spelling looks right. I've never seen it (I think Eliina is common, though).
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I highly doubt that's what she was going for.
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Yeah, I was thinking that too. I actually like a few names with the doube I's (Katariina being one of them!), but I guess Evangeliina just doesn't jive with me. I think it's because they're so close to the L; lowercase L's and I's sometimes blend together for me, so Evangeliina looks more like Evangeiiina. Which doesn't make Evangeliina a necessarily bad spelling if it's really just a Finnish/Estonian variant, it just becomes too confusing for me. :x
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