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Help[Facts] Re: Now for a boys name! Also: Note to Mike C
in reply to a message by V
Lessee V,
Nanaea has proclaimed Toby to be a dog's name; I said it's a parakeet's. At least one of us is right, so I wouldn't use it for a human child. Besides, it's a nickname, for Tobias.
Levi will remind most people of the jeans. It reminds me of the town drunk of that name (200+ arrests) where I used to live. In either case, I don't like it.
Elliot has no particular associations here but I've never liked it either (these are just sposed to be opinions, right?). Sounds like a friend of a Woody Allen character.
That leaves Brice and Dexter. Brice is okay, but if so, go with Cooper, not Brolin. Dexter I once would've thought dorky, but it brings to mind Dexter Holland of my favorite punk band The Offspring (which was on my car CD player as of yesterday).
Dexter goes better with Brolin, since the duplicated -er ending with Cooper is unpleasant. (Is Cooper a family name or are you into barrel-making?)
Your last name and how the whole mess rolls off the tongue must be the final determinant, but ceteris paribus, I think I'd vote for Dexter by a slight margin.
Note to Mike C: You cite an English term for "dyer" as one origin of the male name Dexter. I always thought the -ster occupational names indicated female practitioners (Webster f.=Weaver m., Brewster f.=Brewer m., spinster f.=aging gay guy m.). Am I wrong?
Nanaea has proclaimed Toby to be a dog's name; I said it's a parakeet's. At least one of us is right, so I wouldn't use it for a human child. Besides, it's a nickname, for Tobias.
Levi will remind most people of the jeans. It reminds me of the town drunk of that name (200+ arrests) where I used to live. In either case, I don't like it.
Elliot has no particular associations here but I've never liked it either (these are just sposed to be opinions, right?). Sounds like a friend of a Woody Allen character.
That leaves Brice and Dexter. Brice is okay, but if so, go with Cooper, not Brolin. Dexter I once would've thought dorky, but it brings to mind Dexter Holland of my favorite punk band The Offspring (which was on my car CD player as of yesterday).
Dexter goes better with Brolin, since the duplicated -er ending with Cooper is unpleasant. (Is Cooper a family name or are you into barrel-making?)
Your last name and how the whole mess rolls off the tongue must be the final determinant, but ceteris paribus, I think I'd vote for Dexter by a slight margin.
Note to Mike C: You cite an English term for "dyer" as one origin of the male name Dexter. I always thought the -ster occupational names indicated female practitioners (Webster f.=Weaver m., Brewster f.=Brewer m., spinster f.=aging gay guy m.). Am I wrong?
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