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I like Celia very much. Irene with three syllables is good, but I dislike most if not all -een names. Antonia is distinguished and quietly elegant. My mother had a friend named Elsie Violet who was only ever known as Toni, so it's got a good image for me. And I knew an Antoinette at school who mostly used the full form or a nn based on her ln; very occasionally she was Ant or Anti, and when she entered the world of work she became, and has remained, Toni.