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Calvin or Cassius?
Which do you like more, or hate less?
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Calvin
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CalvinI dislike the Cash sound in some pronunciations of Cassius.
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Calvin. Cal is a cute nn.:)
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Cassius ...I know a little one and it's cute. He was named after Ali I believeCalvin is super nerdy and not in a good way.

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I really like them both but I prefer Calvin. It has less pronunciation issues.
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Has to be Cassius! Rather Cassius Clay than the Shakespeare conspirator, but either way it's miles better than cranky fundamentalist Calvin.Where I live, some years ago, there were two brothers who were in the public eye for being good sportsmen. Their names were Calvin and Luther. I found that sad.
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Calvin if I have to choose nmnm
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CassiusCalvin's ok but makes me think of Calvinism.
I think people are now using Cassius to get nn Cash. I say it more like Cass-ee-us though, and Cash wouldn't come out of it that naturally.
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Love both, but Calvin this time around.
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CassiusI wouldn't use it, but I like it better than Calvin - maybe it's the farming background but I always want to put a g on the end of it.
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CassiusI know a lot of people here like Calvin so I apologize, but it is such an ugly name IMO. It aims to be cool but fails. I dislike the nn Cal too.Cassius I'm neutral on, so it wins.
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Not a big fan of either, but I'd rather use Calvin. Cassius is just so cold, it's hard to picture a real person with the name.
Even Cassius Clay opted for a different name.
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Yes, but he disliked the name because he considered it his slave name and not because of anything inherent in the name itself.
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which is kind of a shame ...Because:1. Ali was named after his own father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr.2. Presumably, Clay Sr. was named after a famous abolitionist and ambassador to Russia in the 1860's named Cassius Marcellus Clay.I'm not sure why Ali thought his name was a slave name; his father was born in 1912, and presumably his parents had not been slaves themselves, and had named him after the abolitionist.I just looked up the name on Wikipedia, I didn't know there was a famous namesake behind Ali.
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I always knew about the abolitionist and, before the internet made finding things out so easy, I wondered if it was a coincidence that Ali had the same first and last name before he changed it.
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Maybe he meant "slave" in a different sense.
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Ali's brother had it worse ...His brother's name at birth was Rudolph Valentino Clay. If I was in that position, I'd find it more annoying to be named after a white movie idol, already long dead when I was born, whose main schtick was pretending to be a sheikh.
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It has to do with surnames.When slaves were emancipated many of them took the surnames of their former owners. Their surnames didn't "belong" to them the way that white people's surnames belonged to them. Malcolm X did away with his last name for the same reason.
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