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in reply to a message by oak
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this but in Australia, 'Nigel' is a slang term for 'loner'. It is definitely widely used, in the context of 'don't be a Nigel' or 'I'm such a Nigel' or 'I don't want to be a Nigel' or just as a mean name you call someone. I'm 99% sure this slang originated with the stereotype of someone called Nigel being dorky and awkward.
Anyway, I cannot get past that association. I would say it is unusable in Australia but I always like to know if names I like mean something negative somewhere else because I would hate for my child to end up somewhere one day where their name would be received extremely negatively. For example, I quite like Pippa as a nn for Philipa but would never use it as it means something not so nice in Scandinavian countries, I believe.
Anyway, I cannot get past that association. I would say it is unusable in Australia but I always like to know if names I like mean something negative somewhere else because I would hate for my child to end up somewhere one day where their name would be received extremely negatively. For example, I quite like Pippa as a nn for Philipa but would never use it as it means something not so nice in Scandinavian countries, I believe.
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