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in reply to a message by RDNZL
I would prefer Elijah by far.
Elisha seems self-consciously archaic.
I can't help feeling like there's an assumption behind it, that I should be snobbish/Bible-reading enough to recognize and presume the OT male name, despite my real-life experience of having met only female Elishas pronouncing it Alicia.
Anyway I think it sounds chumpy, not heroic like Elijah. It's like Jonas that way.
It wouldn't surprise me to see an Elisha with a sister Gracelynn.
- mirfak
Elisha seems self-consciously archaic.
I can't help feeling like there's an assumption behind it, that I should be snobbish/Bible-reading enough to recognize and presume the OT male name, despite my real-life experience of having met only female Elishas pronouncing it Alicia.
Anyway I think it sounds chumpy, not heroic like Elijah. It's like Jonas that way.
It wouldn't surprise me to see an Elisha with a sister Gracelynn.
- mirfak
This message was edited 3/14/2018, 2:24 PM
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