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Sometimes I seem to be the only person on these boards who doesn't like Alice. It's not necessarily that I dislike the sound or even find it dated, because I don't. However, Alice has always given me such... sad vibes. Like a classic tragic heroine in a melodrama. Did Lewis Carroll do this to me? I can't place how it started, only that the biography of medieval noblewoman Alice de Lacy (which I researched for something I'm writing) reinforced such a perception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_de_Lacy,_4th_Countess_of_Lincoln

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(Warning: do not read the above Wikipedia bio unless you wouldn't mind wanting to watch the world burn afterward.)

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If I were British I think I would quite like Alicia, as the intuitive pronunciation seems to be uh-LEE-see-uh; the uh-LEE-shuh pronunciation in the states doesn't do as much for me. But Alice still sounds so melancholic and wistful.

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So, BtN members who love Alice... what do you love about Alice? And how do I escape the sad vibes?

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