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Adelaide is so pretty and so feminine! And I love the nn Addie/ Addy or Ada.

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Andrew

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"To a brave man, good luck and bad luck are like his right and left arms. He uses both."
St. Catherine of Siena

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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's ok, I personally prefer Adele. Addy is a cute NN, though.

I LOVE this name! It's gorgeous! I like the nn Addie, butI also love Adele and Adela as nicknames.

I love Adelaide! I'm quite fond of it myself. I like the nickname Addy as well as Adele.

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I like the full name Adelaide. Somehow it has both oldfashioned femme flourish and practical, immediate tidiness. Ditto Array on the nickname Addie, though - that really is unappealing to me. I might not use a nick at all.

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The association I have with the Australian city is pretty strong, but I know nothing about the city itself and I suspect that meeting an Adelaide would lessen that association a lot.

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- chazda

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I love the name Adelaide. You're right, it's a beautiful, timeless name. It's also a unique name with a strong meaning. I like the nickname Addy, as well as Ada.

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~Sadie

I think it very pretty, not too frilly but not too bold like most German names (Brunhilda, Hildegarde, ect.). I like the nickname Addy somewhat but Della would also be nice.
I also like Adelle, Adeline, and Adelheid with the nickname Heidi. :)

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I knew a little blound girl named Adelaide but I can't remember what her middle name was. Her family was German so her brothers were Deirich and Stockton, her parents were Kurt and Suzanne. :)

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I absolutely love Adelaide. It has the most beautiful look in the world, and it sounds lovely. I'd never call her Addie/Addy, though--I hate the nickname Addy! My Adelaide would be a Della, or a Ladle, perhaps. ;)

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I always liked Adelaide Brett; to me, it's a nice balance between the old-fashioned and the semi-modern. (Brett for a girl doesn't feel at all modern to me, though, because I picture Brett Summers. Because I think she was amazing, though, I'd use it.) I like Adelaide with shorter names, like June, Mae, Laure, etc.

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Array

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"Phineas. That's an interesting name."
"Yeah. It's Latin for 'kick me'."

It fits the feel of names I like! I quite like it, actually. I don't know that I'd use Addy/Addie, as it is getting popular with the Addison crowd, but it would definitely fit. I agree about overly frilly, too. I think that hard Ad- sound works nicely with the softer L in the middle. You could even use Adele as a nn if you wanted, but I'm biased. :) What mn's were you thinking?

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This message was edited 1/2/2006, 8:56 AM