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Help[Opinions] Re: Alice
in reply to a message by mirfak
It's obviously feminine but entirely un-frilly, it's short and easy to spell, it's solidly historically grounded. Same reasons why I like Edith, or Jane.
The Lewis Carroll thing is maybe a downside, but I don't really think of that - more of real women, like a good friend from university, another friend's fantastic 13-yr-old and people like:
Alice Rawsthorn - art critic
Alice Roberts - professor and tv anthropologist
Alice Russell - singer
oh and Alice Coltrane & Alice Walker, and they're making me think that Alice was probably around as a common name for a little bit longer in the US, and was maybe more in a bracket with names like, say, Carol and Shirley. So, entirely different vibe. And if that was the vibe I got, I wouldn't be wild about it either.
The Lewis Carroll thing is maybe a downside, but I don't really think of that - more of real women, like a good friend from university, another friend's fantastic 13-yr-old and people like:
Alice Rawsthorn - art critic
Alice Roberts - professor and tv anthropologist
Alice Russell - singer
oh and Alice Coltrane & Alice Walker, and they're making me think that Alice was probably around as a common name for a little bit longer in the US, and was maybe more in a bracket with names like, say, Carol and Shirley. So, entirely different vibe. And if that was the vibe I got, I wouldn't be wild about it either.
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