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I don't care for those names. Philippa has the male Philip element too strong within it (I do like Phillip for a boy, though), Pippa is a nickname, and I don't like nicknames as formal names, and I just thought of a pimp, and Winnifred is a very ugly sounding name to me.

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Now, I don't think the formal name should revolve around a nickname. You're just settling for the formal name Philippa, just to achieve the nickname Pippa. What is she doesn't like the nickname Pippa? Then you've just wasted time that could have been spent in finding the prefect formal name. Time and energy should he put into finding a formal name, and not a nickname. I say, if you don't like the formal name, but only the nickname, then scrap it all together. A formal name is forever - a nickname isn't.

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-Lissa Hannah-
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. - Allan Bloom