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6 I like the idea of using the flower as a name because it is such a pastoral image. But I feel it would be too much so, for many people.
It's provincial-sounding. Both in the sense of having a rustic/pastoral image, and in the sense of simplicity, lack of sophistication. An excellent cow name. A mediocre name for a person, worse on someone who is definitely not provincial.
It's provincial-sounding. Both in the sense of having a rustic/pastoral image, and in the sense of simplicity, lack of sophistication. An excellent cow name. A mediocre name for a person, worse on someone who is definitely not provincial.
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I think of Daisy Buchanan, who was definitely not provincial.
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and Daisy Miller ...
Pretty but kinda stupid, right? Naive, thoughtless, with shallow understanding, would be another angle on the image I have of it. I didn't want to be insulting about it though. I thesaurus'ed it when I chose the word provincial, and it was the closest neutral one I could find for what I was trying to say ... The synonyms for provincial include: limited, insular, inward-looking, narrow-minded, small-minded, uninformed, unpolished, unsophisticated.
Pretty but kinda stupid, right? Naive, thoughtless, with shallow understanding, would be another angle on the image I have of it. I didn't want to be insulting about it though. I thesaurus'ed it when I chose the word provincial, and it was the closest neutral one I could find for what I was trying to say ... The synonyms for provincial include: limited, insular, inward-looking, narrow-minded, small-minded, uninformed, unpolished, unsophisticated.
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But she was from the Midwest
Which is sort of like being provincial compared to where she ended up.
Which is sort of like being provincial compared to where she ended up.
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The part of me that is still the girl who grew up in a suburb of New York wants to agree with you! But I shan't be lured into saying that all Midwesterners are provincial. That would be a faux pas.
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