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Harper's just plain ugly as a fn to begin w/ and horrid on a girl, but Hester somehow sounds even worse to me. Heather, though nms, is considerably better. Plus, I wouldn't want a child to somehow be assoiciated w/ the current PM's bad decisions on certain things (which there are some major ones of), so even if it weren't unattractive as a fn, it would prob'ly be out for me.

This message was edited 7/4/2012, 11:13 PM

Although Heather suffers from the same sort of gustiness as Hester, it doesn't hiss bitterly like Hester seems to do, to me. The -ther pleases me more than the -ster. YMMV. Harper is not more appealing to me than Hester. Harper sounds like it's trying to be statusy, while Hester just sounds homely. But I guess Hester sounds better than Harper, because Harper reminds me of harpies.