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I've never ever liked this name. But I've been writing a story where I give the characters brilliantly crafted (IMO) names that fit some artistic image, and often that artistic image is realistically bad. Anyway I have one named Alan Burnside and he's a really neat guy, and look at that, I am thinking more and more of the name Alan.
What do y'all think of it? It's always around, super common as a middle name. I only like this spelling; what spellings do y'all like best or hate least?
This is also happening to me with Clay. Not Klay or Klayton or Clayton - ¡ust Clay. I have a character called this, and he is a gravedigger. So corny but I couldn't name him anything else, I tried ¡ames, Earl, Leslie, and it kept going back to Clay. I like it as sort of an opposite to the loftiness of names like Skye and Nevaeh and Miracle - ¡ust really realistic and grounded and honest. We are all made out of clay, &c.
Also, I'm curious to hear about times that this has happened to y'all - not with any circumstance of names growing on you, but where names that you picked out for some reason or another as deliberately bad which grew on you subsequently. I think it's a really interesting phenomenon. I'll edit more if I think of them.
What do y'all think of it? It's always around, super common as a middle name. I only like this spelling; what spellings do y'all like best or hate least?
This is also happening to me with Clay. Not Klay or Klayton or Clayton - ¡ust Clay. I have a character called this, and he is a gravedigger. So corny but I couldn't name him anything else, I tried ¡ames, Earl, Leslie, and it kept going back to Clay. I like it as sort of an opposite to the loftiness of names like Skye and Nevaeh and Miracle - ¡ust really realistic and grounded and honest. We are all made out of clay, &c.
Also, I'm curious to hear about times that this has happened to y'all - not with any circumstance of names growing on you, but where names that you picked out for some reason or another as deliberately bad which grew on you subsequently. I think it's a really interesting phenomenon. I'll edit more if I think of them.
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