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Cosette, Lorna, Quincey and Bennet (or Bennett)
Just an idea I’m playing with - thoughts?
P. S. I haven’t finished reading Lorna Doone so no spoilers for it please!
Jagoda
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Just an idea I’m playing with - thoughts?
P. S. I haven’t finished reading Lorna Doone so no spoilers for it please!
Jagoda
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This message was edited 4/23/2018, 11:39 AM
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Cosette comes across as creepy to me in an old-fashioned, sickeningly sweet way, like being called poppet would sound, to me.
My only associations for Lorna are lovelorn, Lorna "Polaris" from X-men, and Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan, so I imagine a green-haired geek who enjoys karaoke bars, comic books, and tragic romances.
My main associations for Quincey are John Quincy Adams and porcupines (wince + quills? I guess), and apparently I like them, because I'm fond of Quincey.
Bennet seems pleasantly nondescript. It comes across as a compromise between Benjamin and Beckett, but I think it's a cool name on its own merits.
As a sibset:
-Lorna and Quincey are adorkable together.
-I feel like Bennet could fit in with most names, but -et and -ette together bugs me a little.
-The only one that I would assume on sight was a reference (and even then, I'd think it was inspired by the movie) is Cosette.
My only associations for Lorna are lovelorn, Lorna "Polaris" from X-men, and Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan, so I imagine a green-haired geek who enjoys karaoke bars, comic books, and tragic romances.
My main associations for Quincey are John Quincy Adams and porcupines (wince + quills? I guess), and apparently I like them, because I'm fond of Quincey.
Bennet seems pleasantly nondescript. It comes across as a compromise between Benjamin and Beckett, but I think it's a cool name on its own merits.
As a sibset:
-Lorna and Quincey are adorkable together.
-I feel like Bennet could fit in with most names, but -et and -ette together bugs me a little.
-The only one that I would assume on sight was a reference (and even then, I'd think it was inspired by the movie) is Cosette.
This message was edited 4/24/2018, 5:50 AM
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You have a lot of interesting associations there! Thanks!
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I like them all, the boys names more than the girls. I think they all fit together okay but would almost bebetter as two sibsets: Cosette and Bennet (fit in well with current trends, soft, more likely to be immediately recognized as literary) and Lorna and Quincey (unexpected, quirky, more subtle literary theme). Thinking about it, I’m really digging just Lorna and Quincey together.
Maybe this is just my own ignorance but I only learned fairly recently that Lorna Doone was a book. It just makes me think of the cookies lol.
Maybe this is just my own ignorance but I only learned fairly recently that Lorna Doone was a book. It just makes me think of the cookies lol.
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I was actually thinking that Cosette and Bennet, and Lorna and Quincey sound better as separate sets! Personally I like the girls’ names more, but I prefer girls’ names to boys’ generally. I think Lorna and Cosette might work well as a set by themselves too, but I’m not sure.
I didn’t know there were Lorna Doone cookies! I looked them up, and I guess it makes sense that they’re shortbread and the Doones were Scottish.
I didn’t know there were Lorna Doone cookies! I looked them up, and I guess it makes sense that they’re shortbread and the Doones were Scottish.
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Hell yeah! My old dog Lorna was named after the cookies bc yellow fur.
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That’s super cute!
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