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[Opinions] Edna
What do you think of Edna?
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I love it.I I grew up in a church that had many older people in it. These people were amazing to me, so cool and independent. A lot of the women came to DC to work after the war. They never married and had careers instead. I love names that remind me of those women, like Edna and Vivian and Peggy. Those strong women who did so many amazing things and were lost to history.
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I love Edna! It’s earthy and full of character. Plus, the nicknames Ed and Eddy are so charming.

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Still seems like the name of someone's great-grandma to me. Too crotchety.
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double post ignore..

This message was edited 8/27/2019, 1:58 PM

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It is dated and old ladyish like Ethel, Marjorie, and Bertha.On the positive side there is Edna Mode, who is hilarious but probably wouldn't countenance the use of an outdated name.
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It's cool, but I don't like the -dn- sound. It feels icky.
I had a grandmother Edna (b. 1913) who was called Eddie.

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It's a very nasally sound, like when someone is really congested.
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used to hate it, because my full name (Edina) gets mistaken for it often. now i think it's actually charming and kind of cool. i've been back and forth about my feelings on my own name, and i'd consider going by Edna if i could pull it off at all. besides that though, i've grown more comfortable w/ my name, and changing it to one with just a letter difference would be confusing. anywayyyy though, i'd like to think Edna (second, Hebrew listing) is the original, bolder form of my name.

This message was edited 8/27/2019, 8:40 AM

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It sounds elderly and unpleasant, and reminds me of an echidna.
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echidnas are EXTREMELY pleasant
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Maybe so. I still wouldn't like to be named after one.
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It's mean and sharp but stylish in a sort of 1920's gender non-conformist way... I feel like everything I'm saying makes no sense to anyone except me...It's funny how soft and feminine (in a wildflowers, midday sun way) Eithne seems in comparison to Edna.

This message was edited 8/26/2019, 7:09 PM

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It makes sense to me, considering Ed* names do seem kinda masculine to me, plus the reason I was thinking of it was because I read "Spring" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, which is all like, "beauty is not enough" and men's brains are full of maggots and April's a flower-strewing, babbling idiot ...although, also I met someone named Bretna recently, so I guess *na names have just been on my mind.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay... I've heard of her but don't know anything about her... and I've just read "Spring"... twice now... it's a little depressing lol.Bretna is a weird one. Like Brittany said by a toddler.
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She was a young adult in the 1920s. Also she was considered a tomboy and was openly bisexual and sometimes went by Vincent.Bretna was a charming older lady (65ish?) from Louisiana. I guessed her name was influenced by Gretna (place name) and Bret.

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Eithne does have a wildflowers in the midday sun vibe. Edna is perhaps a bit sharpish, but I fail to see how it is remotely gender non-conformist on a woman.
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It's deffos not gender non-conformist presently but uh... Gender non-conformist in a 1920s way. Like you know how flappers were a direct rebuttal to the Gibson girl look. Flappers were decidedly "unfeminine" at least by back-then standards. That's sort of what Edna makes me think of. Like a 1920s lady who's saying a big F U by cutting her hair into a bob and not wearing a corset. All of her non-flapper corset-wearing flowy-haired friends are called Rose and Evelyn and Alice... which sound sappy feminine compared to Ms Edna. imo
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It's dead because it deserved to die. I am very glad it isn't my name.
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