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HelpRe: Dorothy and Susanna - Do you like them?
in reply to a message by Danielle
I love Susanna but don't care for Dorothy. Susanna seems eternally young, while Dorothy, for me, can't shed a dowdy middle-aged image. Dorothy sounds heavy and clunky to me.
I wouldn't use Susanna because: There's someone in my family named Suzanne and there's bad blood there. Of course, that's just me. But I also wouldn't use it because Susan was so massively popular in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. There are still so many older women named Susan walking around and so many of them are called Sue and Sue would be a natural nickname for Susanna also. I think Susanna suffers from the datedness of Susan, if that makes sense. Which doesn't mean I don't love the name, just that I see practical reasons to avoid for myself.
Nor would I use Dorothy because I just don't like it.
The combo I would make is Susanna Dorothy, because Iris and Alice both start with a vowel, and Susanna ends with one, so I don't like the way that Susanna Iris and Susanna Alice flow.
I wouldn't use Susanna because: There's someone in my family named Suzanne and there's bad blood there. Of course, that's just me. But I also wouldn't use it because Susan was so massively popular in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. There are still so many older women named Susan walking around and so many of them are called Sue and Sue would be a natural nickname for Susanna also. I think Susanna suffers from the datedness of Susan, if that makes sense. Which doesn't mean I don't love the name, just that I see practical reasons to avoid for myself.
Nor would I use Dorothy because I just don't like it.
The combo I would make is Susanna Dorothy, because Iris and Alice both start with a vowel, and Susanna ends with one, so I don't like the way that Susanna Iris and Susanna Alice flow.
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