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Ada - never liked Edith
Aina
Alice - Alix looks self-conscious, Alys is an unpleasant person in some books I like
Cosima - never liked the others
Dagmar - there was a really cool Dagmar at my school
Theodora
Elisabeth
Helena
Jane
Josephine - family name
Juliana
Zénaïde
Sylvia - one of my favorite names
Vanamo or Vellamo?

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Alfons / Alphonse or Alfred?
Andrei or Nikolai?
Casimir / Kasimir or Constantin / Konstantin?
Frederick or Henry?
Gustaf / Gustav or Svante?
Javier or Johannes?
Kaspar or Oskar?
Tapio or Untamo?

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And last of all an Admiral came,
A terrible man with a terrible name,—
A name which you all know by sight very well;
But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.

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Robert Southey, "The March to Moscow"