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in reply to a message by Jess
It seems that others here think this is a great idea, but I'm piping up in defense of the future little boy and saying, yes, please do try to talk her out of it!!
It's one thing to use boy-to-girl-to-boy names like Morgan, Courtney and Ashley on boys, but a name like Evelyn is too far gone to the pink side to be used by a modern boy. His life would be constant schoolyard torment and his terrible "I-hate-my parents" teenage years will only we worsened by giving him the name Evelyn.
Yes, Evelyn Waugh was a man. But times have changed and Evelyn is just not seen as a masculine name any more - just like Tiffany and Kimberly were apparently once boy's names, I wouldn't recommend trying that these days.
Why doesn't she try choosing the name of a favourite character from a Waugh novel? There are lots of ways to honour a writer without using their first name.
Evelyn is just way WAY too feminine to be paired up with Charlotte and Austen. Everyone will assume that Evelyn is a girl before they even meet him. And there's no way to de-girlify it. Eve? Evie? Lynn? All girl's names! He's got nowhere manly to turn. Surely her husband isn't going along with this either.
Ask her how she would have felt as a little girl with a name like Walter, because that's what she'd be doing to her son.
Sorry, Mr. Waugh :(
It's one thing to use boy-to-girl-to-boy names like Morgan, Courtney and Ashley on boys, but a name like Evelyn is too far gone to the pink side to be used by a modern boy. His life would be constant schoolyard torment and his terrible "I-hate-my parents" teenage years will only we worsened by giving him the name Evelyn.
Yes, Evelyn Waugh was a man. But times have changed and Evelyn is just not seen as a masculine name any more - just like Tiffany and Kimberly were apparently once boy's names, I wouldn't recommend trying that these days.
Why doesn't she try choosing the name of a favourite character from a Waugh novel? There are lots of ways to honour a writer without using their first name.
Evelyn is just way WAY too feminine to be paired up with Charlotte and Austen. Everyone will assume that Evelyn is a girl before they even meet him. And there's no way to de-girlify it. Eve? Evie? Lynn? All girl's names! He's got nowhere manly to turn. Surely her husband isn't going along with this either.
Ask her how she would have felt as a little girl with a name like Walter, because that's what she'd be doing to her son.
Sorry, Mr. Waugh :(
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I so agree with everything. Not a name for a boy.
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Evelyn Waugh's first name is pronounced "EEV-lin" so those nicknames wouldn't work if someone was using that pronunciation.
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Ditto.
There are certain "girlier" unisex names I like on boys, but not Evelyn. It's a beautiful name, just not for a boy.
I second the idea of honoring an author with a character name, too.
There are certain "girlier" unisex names I like on boys, but not Evelyn. It's a beautiful name, just not for a boy.
I second the idea of honoring an author with a character name, too.
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Ditto this
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I completely agree. :-\
Hello. :)
Hello. :)
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