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I like it, but I've seen so many instances of it on bad people on the internet that it kind of tainted it for me, I still like it though.

I like Earl. It's such a statement. I like that it's so steeped in stereotype that it's impossible to see it as just a regular name. It's so.....itself. It's so very American, with all that entails. Its roots are so optimistically strident and grasping, trying to climb that class ladder in a particularly American way, that it became a byword for brutish ignorance that destroys the things it yearns for. Earl is like that green light in The Great Gatsby, and I like that about it.

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I also love Earlene, which is Earl with extra blue eye shadow.

I think title names are undesirable in every possible way. Luckily, they don't seem to happen where I live: are they exclusively American? If so, what was the War of Independence all about?

This message was edited 4/29/2021, 12:11 AM

As far as a royal names go, Duke is better.

Hard no. It's too old for me.

This message was edited 4/28/2021, 9:01 PM

I don't like way way it sounds at all. I don't know if this is accurate but it really screms "American" to me, probably cos I've never heard it IRL in Australia.

dont like it at all