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Help[Opinions] Re: Jasmine or Jessamine?
in reply to a message by mirfak
Jessamine rhymes with sin!
I prefer Jessamine to Jasmine as a name, because Jasmine is too much of a word still - it hasn't acquired a name identity in the same way that Rose, Lily, Daisy, Iris all have. And, through no fault of its own, it's a heavily scented flower that, used as a name, shortens to Jazz - this seems to place it on the trashy side of normal, and since Jessamine only really shortens to Jessie or Jess, that makes it more of a human name and ... more respectable, somehow.
Jessamine sounds (potentially anyway) refined and restrained, but Jasmine might well be capable of using half a bottle of cheap scent to conceal the fact that she hasn't bathed for some days.
I really hope you haven't got a wonderful Great-Aunt Jasmine!
I prefer Jessamine to Jasmine as a name, because Jasmine is too much of a word still - it hasn't acquired a name identity in the same way that Rose, Lily, Daisy, Iris all have. And, through no fault of its own, it's a heavily scented flower that, used as a name, shortens to Jazz - this seems to place it on the trashy side of normal, and since Jessamine only really shortens to Jessie or Jess, that makes it more of a human name and ... more respectable, somehow.
Jessamine sounds (potentially anyway) refined and restrained, but Jasmine might well be capable of using half a bottle of cheap scent to conceal the fact that she hasn't bathed for some days.
I really hope you haven't got a wonderful Great-Aunt Jasmine!
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