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[Opinions] Ethel or Gladys
Which do you like more or (far more likely) hate less?
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Ethel
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I like them about the same, but I guess I like the sound of Gladys a bit more. I like Ethyl more than Ethel. I'm nerdy that way. :)

This message was edited 7/20/2016, 11:56 PM

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Ethyl and her brother Carbon!
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I like them about the same, but I guess I like the sound of Gladys a bit more. I like Ethyl more than Ethel. I'm next that way. :)
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EthelHonestly I would be pleased if Ethel made a comeback.
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EthelAlways had a soft spot for it. It's ugly but I like it.
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Ethel (adore)I adore Ethel and love Gladys.
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Gladys!I am loving this enough to use it. I've met a few recently and I love the vintage vibe.Ethel just makes me think of ethyl groups and organic chemistry.
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GladysIt has "glad" right in there! :-)I used to really like the combo Gladys Emily - nice mixture of the old and the new.
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GladysI really like how it looks. Sure, it screams "granny!" but it's kinda cool if you give it a chance.
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EthelMy opinion of them is about equal. Although there was an Ethel I disliked on a show, Ethie is a cute nickname I'd probably use.
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GladysGladys has some dignity. Ethel really doesn't anymore. I only hear it on joke-y characters.
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Ethel. Makes me think of the character from "I love Lucy".:)
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I vastly prefer Gladys. Ethel had a brief spasm of fashionability (probably isn't a word, but you know what I mean) but then descended into the lower levels of society and from there into comedy. And there are many worse things to be called than Glad.I imagine that somewhere on Youtube or similar there might be some old BBC radio comedies featuring "The Glums". These were a family of pub-crawling father, mother who took to her bed long ago and never reappeared, cretinous son Ron and Ron's dim girlfriend Ethel, known as Eth, who tries in vain to civilise the rest of them. Enough to put anyone off for life!I know a Gladys in her mid-20s, which is unexpected. Her family left the DR Congo when she was a toddler: they are Catholics and speak French at home, and I'm sure her Western name was always Gladys, though no doubt she had another name in a local language. Where the name Gladys came from, I don't know. The only other ones have been seriously older women, one from Scotland and one from Yorkshire.
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EthelI actually quite like Ethel. I'd never use it, but it's got some clunky appeal.

This message was edited 7/20/2016, 2:12 AM

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EthelI don't care what anyone says, the sounds are soft and pretty and it'll be back with force in probably my grandchildren's generation. And I won't be sad about it. I wouldn't give it to a kid today myself but I'd pick it over Gladys without blinking an eye.
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GladysHard choice, I dislike both!
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Oh dear... these are both very, very icky to me. But if I HAD to choose... I guess Gladys. At least with "glad" there's something happy about the name. ;)
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Gladys. Ethel is ugly.
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GladysGladys is kinda cool.Ethel makes me think of chemistry. Ethyl alcohol in particular (esp. as I associate Ethel with roughly the prohibition era!). It's a throat-clearing sound, and not appealing.
Gladys is glad and Welsh like Glenda.
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Gladys
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Gladys ...I'd shoot my parents, join Witness Protection and change my name if I was named Ethel. If I was Gladys I'd go by my middle name, making one up if I had to, but wouldn't shoot my parents.
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I'm gonna choose Ethel; it's easy to spell, and it has a good meaning ("noble").
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I like Gladys
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I dislike them equally.
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Gladys! Especially since it reminds me of GLaDos from Portal!
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If forced to chose, I'd go with Gladys. It has a fun, quirky vibe. Ethel...no.
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Sorry!I'm not sure if I'm going to actually get used to typing in Solveig or if I'm going to have to switch back because I can't get in the habit
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I think your typo finger is trying to tell you something.Solveig is lovely, but Vigdis has been you for so long, and is so different, that I'd have difficulty too, I'm sure.
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