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in reply to a message by RDNZL
Okay, I think I know why people like it: it's classic, never been out of style, easy to spell and say and not aambiguous, and lots of nicknames. But it's also so totally ubiquitous and to my mind, colorless and prim, and it seems nobody uses nns except possibly Ellie for young Elizabeths today.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
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I like it for all the reasons you say, adding that unlike many classic names, it's not colorless to me. Not sure why not.
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Elizabeth is grass green and blood red. Certainly not colorless, in my book.
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Elizabeth is my name. I rarely go by a nickname, but past sobriquets have included Liza and Lizard. Usually only teachers whose first language wasn't English would call me by a short-form. Lizzie, Liz, or Beth. Never Eliza or Ellie, which I might have liked more. Really any moniker is fine really so long as nobody calls me Liz.
I don't view myself as having a boring name. I think of Queen Elizabeth I or even Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist. My name has a long and colorful history and I'm proud of it.
I don't view myself as having a boring name. I think of Queen Elizabeth I or even Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist. My name has a long and colorful history and I'm proud of it.
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I'm not sure I've ever met an Elizabeth who has gone exclusively by their full name. I've also never met an Elizabeth nn Ellie. Most have been Liz or Lizzie actually. A couple of Beth and Libbys.
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Off the top of my head, I know one Elizabeth/Ellie who's a bit younger than Valerie. Her brother is Ethan and sister is Emma. I think of that as the Lazy E sibset. There was an Elizabeth in my graduating class who never went by a nn. Also a Beth who was just Beth Ann. Have known several Lizes but they have all been older than me.
All the Elizabeths my own age and down that I've known or have known of nearby gseem to go by Elizabeth.
All the Elizabeths my own age and down that I've known or have known of nearby gseem to go by Elizabeth.
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