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Help[Opinions] Re: Nicknames for Heather
in reply to a message by Billina
I like Heather. I think it's romantic.
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I don't like it at all and what's made me dislike it even more than I would otherwise is its former massive popularity. Popularity won't make me dislike a name that I like, though it would prevent me from using the name, but if I dislike it already and it's popular, then I dislike it more. Guess it's from hearing it over and over and each time thinking, "OMG WHY". Sort of entrenches the dislike.
It's sunk in popularity very quickly and it's going to be, or already is, so dated, so I foresee there being more and more people in the future who share my opinion. Heather is the Gladys of 1970 and Gladys was the Heather of 1900. Another good analogy is that Heather is the Linda of 1970 and Linda was the Heather of 1950. I love my older sister Linda to death, but whenever I think of her, who was born in 1952, complaining about her dated name, and then think of how she named her daughter Heather in 1974, I want to shake her.
It's sunk in popularity very quickly and it's going to be, or already is, so dated, so I foresee there being more and more people in the future who share my opinion. Heather is the Gladys of 1970 and Gladys was the Heather of 1900. Another good analogy is that Heather is the Linda of 1970 and Linda was the Heather of 1950. I love my older sister Linda to death, but whenever I think of her, who was born in 1952, complaining about her dated name, and then think of how she named her daughter Heather in 1974, I want to shake her.
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I didn't think of it much until I read about a Heather who was born sometime in the early 1900's. Then it stuck out, and I started thinking about it more.
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