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Help[Opinions] Re: Mabel
in reply to a message by Magenta
My favourite is Maybelle, for Mother Maybelle, naturally. (Maybelle Carter, that is, of the Carter family--y'know, the one who had June who married Johnny Cash? All right, we've cleared that up for the people who aren't quite so obsessed with music history, hehe.)
Mabel just doesn't do it for me, but Maybelle hits the spot. It looks prettier, it sounds prettier (I enunciate the final syllable more, when with Mabel it sounds like MAY-bl), and I have better associations with it.
And because I love names like Maybelle and Opaline, I just can't say no to Maybelline. I think it's just delightful--but remember, I'm the one who thinks "That sounds like a hick name" is a compliment. ;)
The TV judge spells her name Mablean, by the way. :(
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Mabel just doesn't do it for me, but Maybelle hits the spot. It looks prettier, it sounds prettier (I enunciate the final syllable more, when with Mabel it sounds like MAY-bl), and I have better associations with it.
And because I love names like Maybelle and Opaline, I just can't say no to Maybelline. I think it's just delightful--but remember, I'm the one who thinks "That sounds like a hick name" is a compliment. ;)
The TV judge spells her name Mablean, by the way. :(
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"It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in."
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
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