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"Meet my daughter, Tertia Spirit."
You say: What a pretty name!
You think: I really like Tertia, though I'd never use it myself. I have very bad associations with a girl named Spirit, so I don't like it at all.

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"This is my son, Horatio Kolbe." (Kolbe is pronunced about like KOH-bah)
You say: Hello, little boy!
You think: Poor thing. Kolby or Colby would be cute, but KOH-bah is weird, and Horatio *might* be okay as a middle name. At least they call him Ray!

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"May I present my daughter, Susan Arcadia?"
You say: Ooh, what a neat middle name!
You think: Will people EVER quit using Susan? Ugh! Arcadia is very cool as a mn, but I've also never seen that Joan of Arcadia show nor do I know how popular it is, so that might affect this name.

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"These are our twins, Eva Alexandrine and Friedrich Joachim." (EE-vah, not AY-vah or EH-vah--and Friedrich would be called Fritz.)
You say: Fritz, that's awesome! (then to be nice) Eva is very sweet too.
You think: Wow, I think Friedrich nn Fritz is too cool. I'd never have the guts to use it though. Paired with Joachim is nuts though. Fritz and Eva go well together. I definitely like Eva better than Ava, but it's a little too close and I wonder if it won't start flying up the charts soon. I'm not even gonna think about another stupid Alex- name. They all need to die for awhile.