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HelpI just now finalized my Cordelia combo and am proud.
I am so glad. No more agonizing. This is it. I am so chuffed. This is mainly a celebratory post, as I doubt many people would give their approval of it, and I doubt that I would revise it according to their criticisms. Nevertheless, I would love to hear them! It is as follows:
Cordelia Tippins Thomasina
Before everyone begins to resent me because Thomasina is not as good a name as Adelaide, Augusta, or Melete, I shall now explain why I have chosen it.
1. My other top three (Oh boy! I will post them! Simon Francis Benedict, Minerva Maria Cecilia, and Rudolph Hugo Laurentius) are packed with honoring. Adelaide would honor my grandmother Adele and my godmother Alice, but I really prefer it as a first name. Thomasina is for my English teacher, which is important because
2. Cordelia, I always convince myself, can honor Cory. I hate the name Cory more than almost every other name except for maybe Kyle. However, my excellent 10th grade history teacher who has become a very close friend and a generally influential figure in my life is called Cory. I have an English teacher this year who is simply amazing and whose surname is Thompson. Thomasina, I insist, can honor Thompson.
3. Besides, Thomasina is the name of the main-ish character in Arcadia, which is a play we read that I really, really, really liked and has become pretty much the motif for my senior year. Because of her, Thomasina has grown on me from being utterly ridiculous to being kind of neat.
4. I rather enjoy the assonance of Tippins Thomasina, thank you very much.
So I am chuffed with this (at the moment, at least) because it honors two of the most important non-familial people in my life, and it has Tippins which I regard as very significant and important to pass down (it is my middle name for those of you that don't know, and it was my great-grandmother's maiden name). And, well, I love Cordelia. And if she thinks it's too much (I don't think it is), she can go by any or all of a multitude of nicknames.
I am so glad.
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My husband better have relatives with all these names and also agree with me 100% on all of them.
I'm not quite sure CTT has the poetry I require from my other tops, but I still love it.
Simon, Minnie, Rudy, Cordelia. Not too over the top at all, IMO. And prepare to be impressed if you ask their middle names!
*parading over*
Cordelia Tippins Thomasina
Before everyone begins to resent me because Thomasina is not as good a name as Adelaide, Augusta, or Melete, I shall now explain why I have chosen it.
1. My other top three (Oh boy! I will post them! Simon Francis Benedict, Minerva Maria Cecilia, and Rudolph Hugo Laurentius) are packed with honoring. Adelaide would honor my grandmother Adele and my godmother Alice, but I really prefer it as a first name. Thomasina is for my English teacher, which is important because
2. Cordelia, I always convince myself, can honor Cory. I hate the name Cory more than almost every other name except for maybe Kyle. However, my excellent 10th grade history teacher who has become a very close friend and a generally influential figure in my life is called Cory. I have an English teacher this year who is simply amazing and whose surname is Thompson. Thomasina, I insist, can honor Thompson.
3. Besides, Thomasina is the name of the main-ish character in Arcadia, which is a play we read that I really, really, really liked and has become pretty much the motif for my senior year. Because of her, Thomasina has grown on me from being utterly ridiculous to being kind of neat.
4. I rather enjoy the assonance of Tippins Thomasina, thank you very much.
So I am chuffed with this (at the moment, at least) because it honors two of the most important non-familial people in my life, and it has Tippins which I regard as very significant and important to pass down (it is my middle name for those of you that don't know, and it was my great-grandmother's maiden name). And, well, I love Cordelia. And if she thinks it's too much (I don't think it is), she can go by any or all of a multitude of nicknames.
I am so glad.
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...
My husband better have relatives with all these names and also agree with me 100% on all of them.
I'm not quite sure CTT has the poetry I require from my other tops, but I still love it.
Simon, Minnie, Rudy, Cordelia. Not too over the top at all, IMO. And prepare to be impressed if you ask their middle names!
*parading over*
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