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Re: Ngaire, Nyree
As an American I just had to look up "takes the biscuit". I was surprised that that idiom means "to be the most remarkable or foolish of its kind."That definition does make it sort of ambiguous -- to me being "remarkable" would be positive, while being "foolish" of course would not be positive. Which of those meanings were you trying to convey? :)
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Huh. I didn't know it could be used in a negative way. My bad.I meant Nyrie is the best spelling I've seen, it looks the most established even though its rarer than Nyree and the original form - Ngaire. :P
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